SESJA PIERWSZA

was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1978. In the years 1997-2002 she studied at the Faculty of Graphics and Painting at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. In 2003 she held a six-month practice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino. Since 2004 employed at the Strzemiński Academy and since 2016 she has been the head of the Intaglio Techniques Studio. Since 2013, together with Giuliano Santini from KAUS Urbino, she is the initiator and coordinator of the International Summer Courses of Printmaking and Textile Art PATA held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, whose seven editions have enjoyed great popularity among artists from all over the world. In 2009 obtained her PhD in fine arts, 2015, she obtained the degree of habilitated doctor. She conducts research in experimental intaglio techniques such as salt aquatint and etching on iron plates. She is the author of 24 individual exhibitions in Poland, Italy, the Netherlands Argentina and Canada. She has participated in more than 180 national and international exhibitions of graphic arts and drawing in such cities as: Acqui-Terme, Bangkok, Cluj, Douro, Cairo, Katowice, Kochi, Kyoto, Lodz, New York, Olsztyn, Rome, Sarcelles, Tokyo, Trois-Rivieres or Varna. She received 15 awards and honorable mentions in international competitions. Specializes in drawing and printmaking.

Born in 1988 in Koluszki, Poland. Graduate of the Tadeusz Makowski Art High School in Łódź. He was awarded Bachelors degree at the Faculty of Architecture of Textile on Technical University of Łódź. Between 2009 and 2014 and studied at the Department of Graphics and Painting of the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. In September 2014 he got a diploma in the Studio of Intaglio Techniques headed by Professor Krzysztof Wawrzyniak. In 2012 and 2013 he participated in International Printmaking Symposium at the International Centre for Artistic Engraving KAUS In Urbino in Italy. In 2013 he took artistic residency at GEDOK Association in Stuttgart in Germany. After graduation since 2014 he was teacher’s assistant at the Department of Graphics and Painting and at the International Summer Courses - Printmaking and Textile Art held at the Academy in Łódź. In 2015 hes began to PhD studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. Currently he is teacher’s assistant at Intaglio Techniques Studio headed by Professor Alicja Habisiak-Matczak. Participant of numerous international print exhibitions in Brasil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and USA. Author of 6 individual exhibitions in Poland an Germany. Winner of many awards, among other winner of the second Prize at the 44th Intrnational Print Award Carmen Arozena, 2016 in Madrid, Spain and Distinction of the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation, 2017 in Warsaw, Poland.
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