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Education

Studied at the Academy of Art in Wroclaw, Poland, in the Department of Ceramics and Glass. Diploma awarded in November, 1984, in painting, glass design and graphic arts (with Eugeniusz Get Stankiewicz).

Awards, Scholarships, and Honors

1999
Residence at the Bullseye Connection, Portland, Oregon

1998
Merit Award in New Glass Review 19, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

1997
Elected to the International Council of Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington

1996
Soros Foundation Research Grant for a residency at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, Washington

1995
Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Award

1993
Merit Award in New Glass Review 14, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

1992-93
Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship, New York, New York
Award for new creative solutions in exhibition Space at the State Gallery, Legnica, Poland

1990
Merit Award in New Glass Review 11, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

1988
Merit Award in New Glass Review 9, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York The Egit Foundation Creative Scholarship

1984
Polish Minister of Culture and Art Award in the presentation of Art Academies Best Diplomas at the Exhibition Diploma '84, Wroclaw, Poland

Solo Exhibitions

2002
National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland

2001
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Documents Northwest: The PONCHO Series, Seattle Art Museum, Washington

2000
One: Millennium Series, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1999
The Bullseye Connection, Portland, Oregon
Anna Skibska about the tower, film premier, St. Elizabeth Church, Wroclaw, Poland

1998
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Grand Studio, TV Polska SA, Wroclaw, Poland
R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

1997
From behind..., National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
nw, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Anna Skibska, Miller Gallery, New York, New York

1996
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1995
Simple pieces of furniture, Domek Miedziorytnika, Wroclaw, Poland

1994
Look at my eye..., Gallery Na Odwachu, Wroclaw, Poland

1993
Stained glass sculpture, permanent installation, Moses Taylor Hospital, Scranton, Pennsylvania

1992
National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
Dragon A.S. & Peacock EGS Demonstration of Anna Skibska and Eugeniusz Get Stankiewicz, Gallery of Modern Art Na Solnym, Wroclaw, Poland

1991
a/s exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art Na Solnym, Wroclaw, Poland

1990
Stained glass? (two), Gallery Theater STU, Cracow, Poland
Anna Skibska, Galerie D.M. Sarver, Paris, France
International Meetings of Open Theater, Gallery of Open Theater Center, Kalambur, Wroclaw, Poland

1989
Pictures of glass No. 6, Gallery of Modern Art DESA, Wroclaw, Poland

1988
Drawings of glass, Gallery of Modern Art DESA, Wroclaw, Poland
Stained glass Theater STU, Cracow, Poland

1987
Stained glass, St. Clement Hofbauer Church, Wroclaw, Poland
Pictures of glass, Gallery of Modern Art DESA, Wroclaw, Poland
Stained glass?, Gallery of Theater STU, Cracow, Poland

1986
Gallery of Modern Art DESA, Wroclaw, Poland
Pictures of glass, Gallery of Modern Art DESA, Wroclaw, Poland

Group Exhibitions

2000
Eighteenth Annual Art Auction, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington

1999
Preview of selected work for the Seventeenth Annual Multi-Media Pratt Art Auction, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, Washington
International Glass Masters Invitational, Bush Barn Gallery, Salem, Oregon

1998
SOFA Sculptural Objects Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
Preview of work for Poncho 36th Anniversary Gala Auction, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Preview of selected work for the Sixteenth Annual Multi-Media Pratt Art Auction, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1997
Pilchuck Glass School Exhibition, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, Washington
Exempla '96, Munich, Germany

1996
Preview of selected work for the Fourteenth Annual Multi-Media Pratt Art Auction, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1995
World Glass Now '94, The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Daimaru Museum, Umeda, Osaka, Kurashiki City Art Museum, Kurashiki, Japan

1994
World Glass Now '94, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art Sapporo, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Shimonoseki, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1993
Workshop 22, Exhibition of selected student work from the workshop of stained glass, Academy of Art, Wroclaw, Poland, curated by Anna Skibska, Gallery Zamkowa, Lubin, Poland

1992
Space State Gallery, Legnica, Poland
Workshop 22, Exhibition of selected student work from the workshop of stained glass, Academy of Art, Wroclaw, Poland, curated by Anna Skibska, Gallery Zamkowa, Lubin, Poland
5th International Triennial of Drawing, Wroclaw, Poland

1991
Die Malerei von Schiessscheiben, Galerie Raiffeisenäle am Marktplatz, Innsbruck, Austria
Reims presente, Wroclaw expose, Panorama de la culture contemporaine de Pologne, Reims, France
I love You, Monetti Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

1990
OB'ART, 5e Salon de l'objet d'art contemporain, Porte de Versaille, Paris
Academy of Art in Wroclaw, 1946-1990, Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions
Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
Vélizey 2, Vélizey, Paris, France
200 Jahre Kunstchulen in Breslau, Wiesbaden, Germany
L'eau l'Europe, l'environment, La Villette, Paris, France
Vent Force 90!, Porte de Versaille, Paris, France
Interart '90, Poznan, Poland

1989
Literature and Art, National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
In the Master's Circle, Wroclaw, Poland

1988
Judgend Gestaltet 1987, Munich, Germany
ABCD Exhibition, Klodzko, Poland
The Local Exhibition of Art, in both Wroclaw and Warsaw, Poland
Young Glass, in both Wroclaw and Klodzko, Poland

1987
I'm not afraid of kitsch, Academy of Art, Wroclaw, Poland
The Way and the Truth, Wroclaw, Poland
Collective Exhibition, Speyer, Germany

1986
Picture, Sculpture, Stained Glass, Saska Kepa Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

1985
Diploma '84, Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland
The Way and the Truth, Wroclaw, Poland
The Local Exhibition of Art, Wroclaw, Poland
Drawing and Graphic Art of Wroclaw, Archidiocese Museum, Warsaw, Poland

Teaching Experience

1998
Niijima Glass Art Center, International Glass Art Festival, Niijima, Japan, instructor in creative glass

1997,1998
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, instructor in creative glass

1994,1996
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington, faculty member in creative glass

1985-96
Academy of Art in Wroclaw, Poland, faculty teaching design, fine arts, and architecture