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Ist Slavic Painting Workshops "Pienkow 2002"

The First Slavic Painting Workshops "Pienkow 2002" took place on July 1-14, 2002 in Pienkow, Poland. Participating ten artists were selected from a pool of 24 most talented graduates proposed by the presidents of three renowned art schools: the Cracow, Warsaw and Lviv Academies of Fine Arts.
The young participants were accomodated at the Artists House in Ucher, a facilty managed by a polish-armenian couple of artists Teresa and Oganes Kazarian.
The two week workshops and all future plans and projects that followed are the ideas of the sole sponsor and visionary - dr. Marek M. Pienkowski - an established physician and scientist living permanently in the U.S. On the most important occasions the artists met in the estate of dr. Pienkowski - located 20 km from the city of Chelm. Pienkow was the location of the exhibition which concluded the workshops, it also housed the meetings of the prize awarding Selection Committee.
It was a difficult task for the Selection Committee - the created works of art were all highly graded and appreciated. The organiser and the artists called to award the prizes concluded that the future of Polish painting is very promising as they admired the results of the two weeks meeting of young, talented authors.
Roman Listwak from Lviv was declared the best artist of the workshops. The Selection Committee took into consideration both his works of art and his personal dedication. The winner was awarded a grant of 12,000 zlotys.
The success of 2002 Workshops held a promise for the future. Dr. Pienkowski was planning sucessive meetings and exhibitions of paintings created at the workshops. His dreams go even further, the patron of the meeting wishes Pienkow to become a name renowned for arts, maybe even for new directions and styles in painting. His personal contribution to the meeting by creating the fine atmosphere of understanding, friendship and the love of arts cannot be overemphasized.
We all hope that the example of Dr Pienkowski will encourage future art partonship in Poland.

Joanna Chomik-Suszek, 2002

The Selection Committee of the First Slavic Painting Workshops "Pienkow 2002"

(from the right)
prof. Marian Czapla - ASP Warsaw
Lidia Wlłodarska-Zdzieszynska - painter artist
dr Marek M. Pienkowski
prof. Adam Wsiolkowski - dean ASP Kraków
Oganes Kazarian - painter artist
Teresa Chomik- Kazarian - painter artist
Anna Wszyndybyl - artist