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On May 31, 2014 the art gallery of Beatričė Kleizaitė-Vasaris was opened in the building of a former Jewish synagogue and present-day Meilė Lukšienė Education Centre and it at once became an attraction centre to the inhabitants and visitors of Marijampolė.
The art collection of the gallery contains the personal collection of art works, which was given as a present (more than 400 paintings and sculptures) to Marijampolė by Beatričė Kleizaitė-Vasaris, a patron of culture, the researcher and maintainer of the diaspora art heritage, a director, an educator and public activist. She collected it through many years‘ time of her living in Latin America, the USA and Canada. In addition, she also gave a collection of art publications about world and Lithuanian art. According to an artist and art critic Aloyzas Stasiulevičius, this collection is one of the biggest diaspora art expositions that we have in Lithuania.
The exposition of the art collection is placed in four spaces and exhibits the works of famous artists of Lithuanian diaspora - Adomas Galdikas, Vytautas Kašuba, Vytautas Ignas, Albinas Elskas, Viktoras Vizgirda, Romas Viesulas, Pranas Gailius, Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas, Stasys Eidrigevičius, Vaclovas Ratas, Juozas Bagdonas – and works of other artists living (or have lived) in Lithuania: painters Valentinas Ajauskas, Rimas Z. Bičiūnas, Jonas Daniliauskas, Leonardas and Simas Gutauskai, Vincas Kisarauskas, Aloyzas Stasiulevičius, Sofija Veiverytė, graphic artists Birutė Stančikaitė, Algimantas Švažas, Arvydas Každailis, Rimtas Tarabilda, Domicelė Tarabildienė, Mikalojus Vilutis, sculptor Asta Vasiliauskaitė and others.
With the effort and funds of Beatričė Kleizaitė-Vasaris the catalogue of the art collection of the gallery was published in 2016 (254 pages) which presented all authors of the collection, their works and historical art context.
As the exhibitions of professional art were being held the gallery started close cooperation with Lithuanian diaspora art fund, Lewben Art Foundation, Lithuanian Art Museum, National M.K. Čiurlionis Museum, Dusetos Art Gallery, Chicago Čiurlionis Gallery, Rietavas Oginski Museum, Culture History Museum and other institutions.
The gallery is visited not only by the inhabitants of Marijampolė and Lithuania but also by visitors from Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Croatia, Switzerland, Spain, Romania, Germany, Belgium, England, Scotland, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, Finland, Norway, Israel, Africa, the USA, Australia, Mexico and Canada, Lithuania residing ambassadors and the representatives of the embassies and cultural attaches as well as famous artists, art critics, composers, performers, actors, writers and others among them.
The guest book of the gallery contains entries made by the visitors full of amazement and admiration on the collection of the gallery, gratitude notes to the patron and pride in such cultural place, as an undoubtedly one of the most significant centres of culture in Marijampolė.