SCULPTORS

Tadeusz Kacalak, born in 1952 sculptor, has been creating since 1973, deals with naive and primitive art. A prizewinner of the Wyspiański state reward. Folk art collector, founder of the Tadeusz Kacalak folk artistic creativity house in Kutno on 10 Ogrodowa Street, tel. (+48 24) 254 52 73. Participant of many contests in Warsaw, Cracow, Poznań, Płock Radom and about sixty collective exhibitions.

Bohum RFN 1987
Munster RFN 1988
Warszawa 1987
Kutno 1988
Bad Salsuflen RFN 1990, 1991, 1992
Rusel Holandia 1992
Płock 1994
Portland USA 1996
Santa Fe USA 1997, 1998, 1999

Antoni Kamiński, tel. (+48 24) 253 68 83, has been sculpturing since 1974. He took part in forty contests, individual exhibitions in Santa Fe of the US in 1998, Łódź, Płock 1998

Andrzej Cichoń, http://free.polbox.pl/cichonga

Andrzej Wojtczak, has began creating his work in 1973, the first exhibition in 1975, individual exhibitions - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 1998 and 1999, author's exhibition in Płock in May 1999, numerous all-Polish contests

Magdalena Wojtczak, deals with folk sculpture, the first exhibition was held in 1990, ion the International Contest in Lubin in 1997 she was winner of the first prize. Works in galleries of France, Germany and USA. In August, 1999 she exhibited her works in Santa Fe in USA.

 POETS

Czesława Politańska - has a longtime teaching and artistic activity, as well as the original poetic creativity she is becoming an solid element of the cultural image of the city. "A man needs culture and lives in order to create it; culture is a source of identity, preserves memory of us, becomes a legacy for the future generations, is a dictate for it`s multiplification so to speak dictate of life to remain in an everlasting desire of a human being for perfection".

PHOTOGRAPHY

Andrzej Mariusz Wieczorkowski, born in 1947 in Kutno. Studied archeology at the University of Łódź, ethnology at the University of Warsaw; doctor's postgraduate studies at the IH of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In 1975 he participated as a photographer in the academic expedition to Asia - Alef 75, under auspices of the Polish UNESCO committee. Unill 1980 he was associated with "Razem" weekly, and untill December, 1981 with "itd" weekly. Up to 1989 he was a journalist of the underground press. Untill period of the martial law he was an adviser and expert of the main conservator of historical monuments in the Ministry of Culture and Art. He is a creator of the (first in Poland) Museum of Sepulchral Art and Cemetery Collection of Stones and Stone Fragments in Wschowa. After 1981 he was one of the independent art organizers; exhibited works in churches. In 1990-1992 he participated in a creative scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and Art in the field of artistic photography. He deals with media art, theory and photography ontology. More significant collections of works are placed in the Art Musem of Łódź and the National Museum of Wrocław.

GRAPHIC

Dariusz Kaca Born in Kutno in 1960. He finished PWSSP in Łódź (1989). Diploma in professors S. Łabęcki  Workshop of Publishing Graphic at the professors A.Bartczak Sculpture Technique Workshop in 1994. Currently he is an assistent in the Sculpture Technique Workshop on the painting and graphic faculty at Wł. Strzemiński Art School.

Krystyna Brzozowska born in Pabianice. She has finished PWSSP in 1955 to 1960 made a diploma in 1965 in Łódź on the workshops of Stefan Wegner, Teresa Tyszkiewicz, Lech Kunki and Stanisław Fijałkowski. Looks after works in the range of painting, drawing, practical art, fabric printing, outdoors architecture and collage. From 1967 to 1999 she was a teacher in Kutno high schools. Member Polish Pastelers Association.