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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Exhibition Of Photography: “POLAND AS IT WAS” By Jan Hausbrandt Music By Saxophonist Krzysztof Medyna This exhibit will feature documentary photography of Poland and Polish People in 1970’s and early 1980’s. The images in this collection have never been presented or published. www.janhausbrandt.com This exhibit will feature documentary photography of Poland and Polish People in 1970’s and early 1980’s. The images in this collection have never been presented or published. Professional Biography Jan Hausbrandt has spent over 40 years pursuing his passion, the art of photography. Uninterested in staged photographs and advertising, he describes his work as an effort to “uncover my surroundings and find my place among them”. Using light in its various forms he has sought to “focus on the impression of each photo rather that its reality.” Hausbrandt prefers black and white images in documentary photography and photojournalism. His creative work utilizes both color and black and white images.Born in Warsaw he started his professional career in 1972 as a photojournalist for Polish Agency Interpress. He later worked as a photographer for the popular Polish publication, Music Magazine. During this period his talents were also utilized by the British agency, Camera Press, and the Hamburg based German agency, Focus. In the early 1980’s, during Poland’s difficult and turbulent Martial Law his photos documented and unveiled the stark realities of everyday life during this dark period of Polish history.Since moving to the USA in 1985 he has worked as a freelance photographer for various agencies, such as Black Star, and most recently for a Japanese agency, Pan Asia. His photographs have appeared in magazines and newspapers (such as Newsweek, US News and World Report, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times). His stock photos are on file at the Picture Press Agency in Hamburg, Germany and at the East News Agency in Warsaw, Poland. Jan A. Hausbrandt Career Data: 1972 – to present PICTURE PRESS – Photo Agency in Hamburg (Germany) MARKA s.r.l. – Photo Agency in Milano (Italy) A.G.E. – Stock Photo Agency in Barcelona (Spain) PAN-ASIA – Newspaper Alliance Photo & Press Agency in Tokyo (Japan) TRANSGLOBE – Agency in Hamburg (Germany) EAST NEWS – Photo Agency in Warsaw (Poland) OK’ AMERICA – Monthly Magazine published in New York BLACK STAR – Agency in New York THE GRAD PARTNERSHIP – (Architecture/Interiors) – architectural photography Stephen W. Schwartz A.I.A. – (Architect/Planner) – interior photography FOCUS – Agency in Hamburg (Germany) CAMERA PRESS – Agency in London (Great Britain) ARCHITECTURA – Polish Architectural Magazine in Warsaw (Poland) THE CLASSIC MUSIC MAGAZINE – in Warsaw (Poland) P.A. INTERPRESS – Agency in Warsaw (Poland) Major Publications: FORD FOUNDATION – Annual Report (New York) US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT – (Washington D.C.) TIME MAGAZINE – (New York) NEWSWEEK – (New York) BOSTON GLOBE – (Boston) LOS ANGELES TIMES – (Los Angeles) SIMON &SCHUSTER – (New York) BERLITZ INTERNATIONAL – (New Jersey) CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS – (New York) SPIEGEL – (Germany) ZEIT – Magazine (Germany) NOWY DZIENNIK – (Polish Daily Newspaper) in New York NOW – Magazine (England) ASAHI – Magazine (Japan) VIVA – Magazine (Poland) POLITYKA – Magazine (Poland) TWOJ STYL – Magazine (Poland) DOM I WNETRZE – Interior and Architectural Magazine (Poland) THE CLASSIC MUSIC MAGAZINE – (Poland) Exhibitions & Contests: “DREAM CITY” – EXHIBITION at PIASA Gallery, (New York, 2009) “NEW YORK PAINTED WITH LIGHT” – EXHIBITION of Photographs (GDYNIA,Poland 2005) “NEW YORK PAINTED WITH LIGHT” – American festival in CHARZYKOWY,(Poland, 2005) “NEW YORK CITY” – Restaurant “Pod Krzyzykiem” -( Cracow, 2004) “NEW NEW YORKERS” – Portraits in Photos & Words – ZPAF Gallery (Warsaw, 2004) “STREETS OF NEW YORK” – POKAZ Gallery (Warsaw, 1999) “EMOTIONALISM” – GROUP SHOW AT NORTH EASTERN UNIVERSITY (Boston, 1998) “THE LOOK” – EXHIBITION IN POLISH GENERAL CONSULATE IN NEW YORK (1997) “POLISH IMAGES” – 1996 (New Jersey) “POLISH PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE WORLD” – GROUP SHOW (Poland, 1991) WORLD PRESS PHOTO – 1977/78 (Holland) PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST & EXHIBITION 1975/77 (Poland) “THEATRE OF NATIONS” – EXHIBITION 1975 (Poland) Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej

PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Exhibition of Art Works: “Faces – sketches from dreams” by Janusz Skowron Janusz Skowron was born in Kolbuszowa, Poland (1958). He studied Fine Arts at the University of UMCS in Lublin and received a Masters Degree in Lithography in 1983. Since 1989 Mr. Skowron has been living and working in New York City. Mr. Skowron is a member of the international multimedia art group “Emotionalism”, “The Polish Artists Association”, PIASA and the “New Century Artists Gallery” (NYC). He is the co-founder of the “KONT Gallery” (1978) and the “SHTOOKA Gallery” (2006). Artist is an organizer and participant in international xhibits including “Entropy of Art” (2008) and “Transformations- works on paper” (2011-2013). In his artwork he moves easily between figurative and more abstract themes. His sensibility is constantly in flux between inner and outer realities that are realized in his expression of exquisite and evocative psychological tension. His art screams, shouts and whispers feelings and moods of the moment, ranging from anger, pain, and ecstasy to serenity, joy and intellectual reflection. Each work is done in one session; he never returns to the mood of moment. “It wouldn’t be genuine, you cannot feel exact emotions twice.” Mr. Skowron has exhibited his works at the PIASA Gallery and has participated in more than two hundred exhibitions, displaying his works in Poland, Hungary, U.S.A., South Korea, China, France, Denmark, Ukraine and Germany. His broad range of skills includes painting, drawing, photography and graphic arts. Since 2001 his illustrations have been published by the New York magazine “Kurier Plus”. Mr. Skowron has served as the curator of several exhibitions, and he is a tireless promoter of Polish Art in America.

PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Exhibition: “12 Prints and 2 Sculptures” by Adam Niklewicz http://adamniklewicz.com Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej

PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Photographic Exhibit: “Face to Face” by Czeslaw Czaplinski One of Czeslaw Czaplinski’s very first exhibits was held at PIASA some 30 years ago. Since that time, his works have been shown at various Institutes, Museums, National Galleries and other major venues around the world. Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej

PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Sculpture – February 2, 2012 Ursula von Rydingsvard is a sculptor who has been working in Brooklyn, New York, for the past 30 years. Von Rydingsvard is best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from cedar beams, which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, and laminates, finally rubbing powdered graphite into the work’s textured, faceted surfaces. She deliberately uses cedar boards milled into 4″ x 4″ widths with varied lengths, giving her a neutrality or “blank canvas” which enables her to dip into a wide range of possibilities often within the arena of the psychological and emotional. Her signature abstract shapes refer to things in the real world—simple vessels, bowls, tools, and other objects—each revealing the mark of the human hand while also summoning natural forms and forces. Born in Germany in 1942, von Rydingsvard and her family were among the dispossessed that, after the war, were forced to move from one refugee camp for displaced Poles to another, eventually settling in the United States in 1950. The artist’s respect for organic materials and the dignity of labor, the sense of loss and pain, and the persistent memories that inform her work may be traced back to these formative experiences. Ursula von Rydingsvard was born in Deensen, Germany, in 1942. She received a BA from the University of Miami, Coral Gables (1965), a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University (1975), and an honorary doctorate from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (1991). Von Rydingsvard’s sculpture is included in numerous permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Detroit Institute of Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She is the recipient of two individual grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a GuggenheimMemorial Foundation Fellowship, two awards from the American International Critics Association, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008, and was recently awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture. The Sculpture Center in New York City presented a survey of her sculpture in Winter/Spring 2011 which traveled to the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio, and will travel to the Frost Museum in Miami, Florida. Also in 2011, Prestel published a monograph by Patricia Phillips on her work: Ursula von Rydingsvard: Working. Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej

PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT “Painted By Light” – Photographic Exhibition By Hanna Kelker Hanna Kelker Ph.D. is a scientist by training and by profession. She studied at the University of Warsaw, Purdue University and Michigan State University. She served on faculty at the New York University School of Medicine (Department of Medicine) where she conducted research on the development of an AIDS vaccine. She is a member of PIASA’s Board of Directors where, among her other duties, she serves as a Chair of PIASA Events Committee. With a keen lifelong interest in the arts and always fascinated by photography, she has recently begun a serious artistic pursuit using digital photography.Her passion is to photograph ephemeral images created by light. “I delight in photographing the impressions of images such as reflections and landscapes painted by light with wonderful colors that change in tone and hue with the movement of the sun passing through the day from sunrise to sunset. I am fascinated by shadows that create replicas of the objects that cast them to create a distinct mood that accentuates the characteristics of the setting. Shadows can create a lyrical effect in woods or gardens by adding fragile vegetation of their own that evolve with the passing day, or they can be perceived as menacing in a modern urban environment.” Hanna Kelker’s photographic work has been shown at the Salon of the Polish American Photographers Club (2008 and 2011), the Kips Bay Art Show, the New York University School of Medicine and the Soho Photo Gallery. Her photographs were shown as a solo photographic exhibition at the Gallery of Kurier Plus (May, 2011) and at the PIASA Gallery (October, 2011).The exhibition was reviewed by Czeslaw Karkowski (text in Polish) and can be found on the internet www.kurierplus.com (May 28th, 2011, page 7). Photographs from the exhibition taken by Zosia Zeleska Bobrowski can be seen at http://www.poland.us/strona,15,8605,0.html Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej