The Foundation of Disabled People's Art has been established in 1991 and began an
official life in Krakow to support all sorts of creativity among disabled, both amateur and
professional.
Wojciech Tatarczuch, a journalist very involved in such an activity was the main
author of the Foundation programme.
In 2006 the
Pro Publico Bono Contest Foudation*) awarded the Foundation the first prize in
the category of Culture and National Heritage for the idea and successful organization
of nine editions of the International Biennial of Disabled People's Fine Art. The
Biennial appears as a specific event. High level of presented works and almost
global reach, found the universal recognition. At the end of 2010 already eleventh
has been held.
But besides
this cyclical event an everyday job is also important:
- over 440 individual and collective exhibitions,
- opening in 1999 the art gallery "Stańczyk" which appears as a
multi-functional centre (in spite of too low area),
- organization
of annual, all-Polish literary competitions,
- editorial
and publishing activity: artistic quarterly “In Word and Shape”, books,
information folders, postcards, catalogues, posters, calendars etc,
- art-therapy
and education – at this scope a Study of
the Art Knowledge was organised together with the Krakow Technical University
for people with disabilities (163
graduates obtained the certificates).
- fine arts
and literary workshops, the open airs - in it an exceptional international "underground open air”
organised together with the Museum of Krakow Salt Works in Wieliczka,
- a dozen or
so premieres and many performances in the country and abroad given by the
theatre troupe "Stańczyk",
- Information
Cultural Centre for the handicapped at the Gallery "Stańczyk",
- the
cooperation with related non-government organizations at home and abroad.
In the range of the
Foundation influence is over three thousand disabled people in entire Poland,
not counting the audience of artistic events and readers of publication.
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*) The Pro Publico Bono Contest Foundation was
created, whose initiators were: Jan Nowak-Jeziorański and laureates of
the jubilee contest, Izabela Dzieduszycka and Krzysztof Pawłowski.
Prof. Andrzej Zoll, the Polish Ombudsman who due to his statutory
duties was particularly obliged to supporting civic societies, joined
the initiative. Polish-American Freedom Foundation
is the main sponsor of the awards in the contest. The Foundation's
Committee is created by: prof. Jerzy Buzek – the chairman of the
Foundation's Committee, Ms. Agnieszka Bogucka, Ms. Izabela
Dzieduszycka, famous composer - prof. Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Mr. Jerzy
KoĽmiński, dr. Krzysztof Pawłowskki, prof. Andrzej Stelmachowski, prof.
Andrzej Zoll, untill January 2006 in the Foundation's Committee
outstanding poet - sat rev. Jan Twardowski.
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