UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents the lecture “A Singular Spirit: Józef Czapski, His Art and Life” by Eric Karpeles. Czapski (1896-1993) was a painter, a writer and a Polish military officer who in vain searched for Polish officers infamously massacred at Katyn during the WWII. He also wrote about his experience in the Gulag system and after the WWII, he became a co-founder of the Literature Institute in Paris, the publisher of Kultura. Czapski
The fall bazaar is returning to the Polish Cultural Center at its usual first weekend of November, organized by the Polish Women’s Club. The ladies are playing it safe though due to the pandemic, and this year the Polish bazaar will last only one day, instead of the usual two. Other than that, it is expected to feature the usual: booths with amber and jewelry, arts and crafts, Polish crystals and Boleslawiec pottery as well
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents the lecture Katarzyna Kobro Composing Space by Marek Wieczorek. Dr. Wieczorek is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Washington in Seattle, specializing in early 20th- century avant-garde art with focus on abstraction. Katarzyna Kobro (1898-1951) was an abstract sculptor who studied with and was influenced by Kazimir Malevich and was active in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s. Known for her radical
Local Polish-American Cornish College of the Arts graduate, Kasia Pawluskiewicz is exhibiting a new series of contemporary paintings and fish prints created while working at sea as an artisan chef for the last ten years. Not a gathering but an experience! An outdoor exhibition Friday December 11th from 4 pm to 8 pm and Saturday December 12th from 10 am to 8 pm, with artwork illuminated when dark. COVID protocols applied. Bring masks and snow
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the webinar A Polish Mistress of the Brush: Olga Boznańska by Ewa Bobrowska. Dr. Bobrowska is an art historian based in Paris with interest in the 19th c. and the 20th c. Polish artists working abroad. Olga Boznańska (1865-1940) was one of the most renowned Polish women painters, who after her arts studies in Cracow and Munich settled in Paris in 1898 and was active there, especially as a portraitist.
The Fountainhead Gallery presents two painters in September: Kaz Poznanski and Bergen Rose; the exhibition includes six oil paintings by Kazimierz Poznanski, from his Flowers of Color abstract realism series. Mr. Poznanski is a painter, poet, writer and a Professor of Economics at the Univ. of Washington in Seattle, with interest in Chinese art. The exhibition at the Fountain Gallery in Seattle i available untill September 26; admission is free, the gallery business hours are Thursday through