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AWARDS Maria Ignatiou Shiakalli won all the annual academic scholarships (1988-1992) at Barton University, Wilson, NC, all the annual foreign student scholarships (1988-1992) and also winning the annual Caldwell Scholarships (1989-1992). In 1991 she was also awarded the Bessie Massengil Art Scholarship for Best University Art Student. In 1991, she became a member of the Alpha Chi (AX) National Honor Scholarship Society, in USA. She was placed on the Dean’s List, Fall 1988, Spring 1989, Fall 1989, Spring 1990, Fall 1990, Fall 1991. She was placed on the President’s List Spring 1991 and Spring 1992. In 1991, Maria Ignatiou was the Marshall of the Junior Class at the Commencement achieving the Highest Junior Class Average. In 1992, she acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in Painting & Ceramics with Magna Cum Laude distinction. ACCOLADES During her studies she was a Representative to Senate, President of Campus Christian Association, Member of Convocation, Concert, and Lecture Committee and Member of the Council of Presidents. In 1991, she presented her awarded Ceramic works alongside with renown artists of the State at the North Carolina Ceramics Conference which was held in Spring in Asheboro, North Carolina. In 1992 she returned to Cyprus and founded a private educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts. In 1998 she co-founded Kivotos Luxury Lifestyle, a contemporary luxury development company specializing in design and art consultancy together with product sourcing and supply for exclusive projects, representing world famous companies such as Versace Home and Barovier & Toso. In 2004, she was employed by the Ministry of Education as an Art Educator and has taught Art at the St Barnabas School for the Blind, Nicosia, Cyprus. As an acclaimed Fine Artist, she established the Art Department both in Painting and Ceramics at the School of the Blind offering professional lessons in finger painting, painting and drawing with magnifier lenses, ceramics, jewelry, fabric collage and engraving. She is a fifteen-year experienced Art Educator to students with visual impairment including blindness and dual sensory impairment of deafness and blindness. Being the Author of the art curriculum for the St Barnabas School for the Blind, Nicosia, Cyprus, she has developed art therapy lessons and creative arts adaptions.