Alphabetical list of artists

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Marek Cecula (Tzatzula), Born 1944 in Kielce, Poland where his family (Motel Kohn) was saved from the Nazis by the Cecula family which gave them their documents with a new surname. Sculptor and industrial designer. Studies: Argentina, sculpture; Bezalel, Jerusalem. Works in ceramic sculpture. 1968 Went to New York City, USA. Won prizes in the US and in Europe. Has his own studios: Cmielow Design Studio, Kielce, Poland, where he runs a program for artists in residence, and Modus Design, New York City, USA, where he opened his own ceramics art gallery "The Contemporary Porcelain Gallery, Brooklyn, New York City, USA. "He seeks to combine functional and decorative art; bridging the gap between design, craft, and sculpture; this has been the defining characteristic of his work." Since 2013 he has been organizing student workshops called "Art Food Project" with the help of his Cmielow Studio, his Modus Design Studio, and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, in order to develop future cooperation between students and the ceramics industry. His work incorporates styles from the postmodernists, Japanese porcelain, Bauhaus and the Soviet avant-garde artists.

Education

Studied sculpture and ceramics in Argentina .
Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem, Ceramics, with ceramicists Gdula Ogen and Jean Mayer

Teaching

1985-2004 Parsons School of Design, New York City, USA, Head of the Ceramics Department
2004-2010 National Academy of the Arts, Bergen, Norway, Visiting Professor
Royal College of Art,London, England, Visiting Professor
Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Professor of Ceramics

Awards And Prizes

1987 Product Design Excellence Award, Accent on Design, New York City, USA
1990 American Craft Awards, Kraus Silkes, New York City, USA
1990 Wichita National Award of Excellence, Wichita, Texas, USA
1991 Empire State Craft Alliance, Grant 91, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
1991 Fellowship Award, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York
1992 Abington Art Center, "Best of Show", The Clay Cup, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, USA
1995 Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York
1999 Fellowship Award, Luis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York City, USA
2001 Grant for Project, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Kansas
2013 World Intellectual Property Award, Industrial Design, Switzerland

Environmental Sculptures

2007 Monument to the Memory of the Destruction of the Kielce Ghetto, Poland, "Menora" (The Menora is tilted, half in a broken sidewalk, and half coming out of the broken sidewalk, and whether it will right itself or fall remains uncertain)
2010 Pakosze District Cemetery,-in a Communal grave for those who perished in the Kielce Pogrom of 1946, "Star of David" (Broken-which depicts the sudden interruption to the lives of those interred in the communal grave), Poland
2011 "Kielce Chronicle", a table laden with hundreds of porcelain fragments on which are printed photos of the city, the ghetto, the pogrom, members of his family and other city residents.