Pamela Kladzyk Ziemba
Artist, art historian
Born Mar. 5, 1949, Bad Axe (MI), U.S.; daughter of Franklin and Marie (Ziemba).
Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1971; Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, 1975; Ph.D., Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), 1987.
Career: artist in residence, Wards Island Psychiatric Hospital, New York City, 1979; instructor, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1986-87; instructor and exhibitions coordinator, Washington Heights Community Center, New York City, 1988-89; adjunct associate prof., Dowling College, Oakdale (NY), 1989; lecturer, Oakland University, Rochester (MI), 1990; adjunct assistant prof., St. Francis College, Brooklyn (NY), 1991-92; faculty, Parsons School of Design, New York City, 1991 -, and The Bard Graduate Center, 1994 -.
Author: conference papers and lectures, i.a. in: Polish Academy of Sciences, Catholic University of Lublin, Kosciuszko Foundation, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.), Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), Hunter College and Columbia University, New York City, Woodrow Wilson Center (DC); actress, The Begat, by Madeline Schwartzman, 1994; articles in Metropolis Magazine; one-person exhibitions, i.a.: Harvest - Space Between Old and New, St. Mary's College, Orchard Lake (MI), 1975, Moments... Before the Wish, University of Michigan, 1978. Fain & Freidlich Gallery, 1980, and Broome St. Workshop Window, 1986, New York City; 30 group exhibitions i.a.: Post-card Size Art, Bologna (Italy), 1978, and in New York City - Federal Hall National Monument, 1977, PS 1, 1979, Art Against Apartheid, Abyssinian Baptist Church, 1984, AIR Gallery, 1984, Tompkins Square Park, 1984, Limbo Gallery, 1985, Freddy the Dreamer Gallery, 1985. Gallery 12, 1987, New York Design Center, 1992, Small Works IV, Parsons School of Design, and The Printmakers' Art, Hudson Guild, 1994.
Member of: Art Against Apartheid, 1984-85; Organization of Independent Artists; College Art Association; American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS); Kosciuszko Foundation; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.).
Honors, i.a.: grants, Aspen School of Fine Arts (CO), 1966, B. Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, London (United Kingdom), 1969, New York Foundation for Arts, 1986, 1987, Harvard University, 1988, Kosciuszko Foundation and International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), 1989.
Languages: English, Polish, Latin, French.
Home: 185 Sullivan St. #B7, New York, NY 10012.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996