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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 … Read more

Speakers: Anna Frajlich, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia UniversityIrena Grudzinska-Gross, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages, Princeton University.Krystyna Olszer, Adjunct Associate Professor of Polish, Columbia University.Presentation of photographs of Czeslaw Milosz by Zosia Zeleska-Bobrowska. Display of Czeslaw Milosz books, manuscripts and memorabilia from PIASA and private collections were … Read more

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 … Read more

Z profesorem Tadeuszem Gromadą i Janiną Gromadą-Kedron rozmawia AndrzejJózef Dąbrowski J.G.-K. – Nie wiem, czy pan zauważył, że siedzimy pod portretem profesora OskaraHaleckiego.A.J.D. – Zapewne nie przez przypadek.J.G.-K. – Oczywiście. Był on przecież pierwszym dyrektorem wykonawczym naszegoInstytutu. Tadeusz jest jego uczniem. Profesor Halecki wciągnął też Tadeusza doInstytutu.T.G. – Było to w końcu lat 60.J.G. – … Read more

Rare photos of Czeslaw Milosz at his author’s evening, at PIASA 1983.