Agnieszka Kołodziejczak
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and the University of Łódź. Recipient of a Norwegian government scholarship (2003/2004) at Kunsthøgskolen in Bergen. PhD in Humanities from the University of Łódź – an applied PhD in the field of accessibility standards for culture and the arts in Poland for Deaf people, to be completed in 2024. Project specialist at the FIDEES Social Ideas Foundation. Research assistant at the Department of History of Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Art History, University of Łódź.
She has extensive professional experience working in the academic, local government, non-governmental (setting up and running organisations and the social economy) and private sectors. Author and implementer of numerous pioneering initiatives and grants in Poland in the field of Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. She has participated in numerous open-air events and art exhibitions both in Poland and abroad. She is a co-founder of the Deaf Artists’ Group, the MEOK Gallery and the Ucieleśnienie Foundation.
She is passionate about painting, icon painting, writing, drawing, comics and collage. She loves discovering new craft techniques.