BPP: Who are you?
And who you really are?
Olga Ziemska: I am an artist that
specializes in sculpture, installation, environmental and public art. I am a natural
wonder seeker and phenomenon locator/revealer. I am in awe.
BPP: If you could say something important to others
who were listening, what would you tell them?
Olga Ziemska:To listen. And to
remember not to forget.
BPP: What is
your true dream, the one that keeps you up at night and if one day it were to
come true you would feel peace and calmness in your heart?
Olga Ziemska: My true dream is to
build a house of my own creation using my own hands and the natural materials
that are available to work with on site, which will be a beautiful site of many
preserved acres of forest, rolling hills and natural wonder. A home of self-sufficiency,
simplicity, warmth and uniqueness made with love and care would bring calmness
to my heart. A return to the earth in a modern rustic way for the future is
peace.
BPP: How is life currently for the people in your
country and what would you wish for them and for the planet at large?
Olga Ziemska:From what I can tell
it is changing in America and it is changing in Poland. It always has been
changing. But I suppose now, as a world, we are starting to slowly realize that
our individual change results in the world around us.
BPP: If you had a chance to be a child again would you
choose the same life?
Olga Ziemska: If I could be a child
again I would choose the same life, but in a different location. For instance,
on the other side of the equator. I would like to try out my childhood in
different countries and in different cultures all around the world. I have a
feeling it would be the same, but very, very different. A 360 degree
perspective.
BPP: What was
the exact moment that you realized what you wanted to do with your life? How did you feel at this very moment?
Olga Ziemska: There has never been
one moment of realization of what I want to do with my life and the idea and
concept of “what I want to do” is in constant flux. The most constant thing in
my life is change, therefore what I want to do with my life is to constantly
change and grow. I have come to this realization over and over again in various
moments throughout my life. These moments are profoundly still in realization.
BPP: Would you like to tell us something we didn’t ask
until now?
Olga Ziemska: Extended hands with a
heart made of energy that hears its own hum.
Olga Ziemska's drawing for BPProject
Olga Ziemska is a sculptor and public artist that lives & works in Cleveland, Ohio in a studio by Lake Erie. She is a recipient of many prestigious grants and awards including a Fulbright Fellowship in 2002 and a Creative Workforce Fellowship in 2009 and 2013, which is generously funded by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. In 2007, Ziemska was selected as a Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. She has participated in several residencies nationally and abroad, including Centre of Polish Sculpture in Poland, YATOO International Artist Residency in Korea and I-Park in Connecticut. Her work is exhibited both nationally and internationally, with work reviewed in Sculpture magazine. Ziemska recently completed a large-scale outdoor public sculpture titled Indra for Columbus State Community College's library building.
b. 1976
Lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio
Public Art Commissions
2013 (upcoming) Dendrite, Tremont Streetscape- W. 10th & Professor Outdoor Public Sculpture, Cleveland, Ohio.
2012 Indra, Percent for Art, Columbus Hall Library, Columbus State Community College, Columbus, Ohio
2011 Heartwood Rabbit, Year of the Rabbit Public Art Project, St Clair Superior Development Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
2010 The light which can be heard..., Percent for Art, Roe Green Center, Kent State University
2009 Flock of Hands, Yellow Springs Art Council, Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce, Ohio
Grants & Awards
2013 Creative Workforce Fellowship, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture & CPAC, Cleveland, Ohio
2009 Creative Workforce Fellowship, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture & CPAC, Cleveland, Ohio
2007 Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series Award, MOCA, Cleveland, Ohio
2004-05 Sylvia Leslie Herman Young Scholarship, Providence, Rhode Island
2002 Fulbright Fellowship, U.S. Fellow to Poland
1997-98 Daimler-Chrysler Foundation Scholarship
1996-99 Columbus College of Art and Design Tuition Scholarship, Columbus, Ohio
1995 Cleveland State University Art Scholarship, Cleveland, Ohio
1995 Best of Show, The 9th People's Juried Art Show, Cleveland, Ohio
1994 Governor's Award of Excellence, Ohio Governor's Art Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Mirror Matter, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio
2005 The tree told me so..., Church of St. Lawrence, Galerie Klenova/Klatovy, Czech Republic
2004 When earth and heaven were in easy communication with one another, Galeria Nowych Mediow, Poland
2003 Accumulate visions...Build bridges...Breathe..., Chapel Gallery, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Poland
2000 A thousand eyes, Canzani Center, Columbus, Ohio
1995 Black and White, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Group Exhibitions
2012 Paradise not quite lost Créations-sur-le-champ Land art Exhibition, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
2012 Project Daejeon 2012: Energy, Daejeon Museum of Art, Korea
2010 Wood as Material, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture & Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland
2009 Circulation, Environmental Art Biennale, I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut
2005 Sculpture Graduate Show, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2003 Crossing Borders, Reed Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2003 Holiday Member Show, ROYGBIV, Columbus, Ohio
1996-2000 Annual Student Exhibition, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
1999 Future Tense, Acock Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
1995 The 9th People's Juried Art Show, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Ohio
1994 The 16th Ohio Governor's Art Exhibit, Ohio State Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio
Residencies
2013 (upcoming) CAMAC, Centre D'Arte, Marnay sur Seine, France
2012 Créations-sur-le-champ Land art, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
2012 YATOO International Artist in Residence Program, Wongol, Korea
2009 I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut
2005 Galerie Klenova/Klatovy, Czech Republic
2004 Galeria Nowych Mediow, Gorzow Wlkp, Poland
2003 Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland
Artist Activities
2013 (upcoming) An Evening with the Arts, Artist talk and presentation, Rocky River Public Library
2011 Welcome Back campus event, Artist community interaction, Columbus State Community College, Ohio
2010 Artist talk and body-tracing community event, Kent State University, Ohio
2009 Public hand-casting community event, Yellow Springs Arts Council, Ohio
2008 Juror for Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series, MOCA Cleveland, Ohio
2007 Curator's Brown Bag Lunch Series, Artist talk, MOCA Cleveland, Ohio
Education
2004-2005 Rhode Island School of Design, Master Studies in Sculpture
1996-2000 Columbus College of Art and Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts
1995-1996 Cleveland State University, studied Political Science, English, and Art
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