The store specializes in Polish prints, ceramics, textiles, glassware, religious iconography and jewelry as well as one-of-a-kind Polish art, with Ms. Merska’s own pajaki hanging from the ceiling.

The Polish Cultural Club of Greater Hartford Inc. is sponsoring "An Exclusive Sunday at the Museum," a visit to The Polish Center of Discovery and Learning in Chicopee on Sunday, April 30, at 1 p.m.

She customizes designs to the group she’s working with but always includes a Polish component because, she says, it is a part of her history. Wycinanki developed in the mid-1800s as a folk art ...

But he also questioned Hollywood’s demand. Majcher said the ‘People’s Oskar,’ was named after Oskar Kolberg, a 19th-century Polish ethnographer who wrote some 10,000 Polish folk songs.

Now 36 and based in Elton, Wróbel uses only scissors and paper to hand-cut traditional folk designs blended with the nature and culture of Cajun country to produce original wycinanki art.

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In 2004, the family expanded their Hamtamck business to include an educational center with lectures, folk art demonstrations and so much more. The Bittner's also opened an additional story in ...

In the festival's Cultural Village, the touring exhibit "Poland Regained: Polish Posters from the 1890s to the 1930s" will display visual and graphic art from a time period that included both the ...