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Polski Komitet Międzynarodowego Stowarzyszenia Wychowania przez Sztukę

Adres: Affiliated Organisation of:

ul. Święty Marcin 80/82 pok. 303

61-809 Poznań

(Centrum Sztuki Dziecka)

tel. +61/64 65 281, e-mail: pkinsea@op.pl, www.inseapoland.org

NIP: 525-15-70-453, REGON: 012259190, NR REJ. KRS: 0000149896

KONTO: Raiffeisen Bank Polska S.A. Stary Rynek 78/79, 61-772 Poznań, NRB 70 1750 1019 0000 0000 0305 9324

INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOCIETY AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF TASKS IN THE YEARS 2002-2006

Polish Committee of the International Society for Education through Art

Mailing address:

61-809 Poznań, ul. Święty Marcin 80/82, tel. +61/64 64 282, 0 501 476 302

e-mail: pkinsea@op.pl, www. inseapoland.org

II.

The International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) is an international and non-governmental organization affiliated by UNESCO. The Organization was founded in 1951, by Sir Herbert Read. Polish Committee of the InSEA was created in 1989. Its statute states that the Committee functions on the territory of the Republic of Poland and that the head office of its authorities is located in Poznań.

Polish Committee of the InSEA is a registered society and therefore it has been endowed with legal personality. In 2005 it obtained the status of a public benefit organization. The Committee is a social organization which bases its activity on members’ social work. Among its members one can mention people of culture, art and education; artists, pedagogues, instructors and multiplicators.

Within its statute activity, PC InSEA launches programmes addressed to kindergartens, primary schools, gymnasiums, high schools, academic circles and adults.

III.

Since 02.12.2006 the work of PC InSEA has been supervised by the Board composed of:

PC InSEA Board President – Tadeusz Wieczorek
PC InSEA Board Vice-President – Monika Goetzendorf-Grabowska
PC InSEA Board Vice-President – Magdalena Parnasow
Treasurer – Magdalena Szmigiel
PC InSEA Board Member – Michał Bałdyga
PC InSEA Board Member – Krystyna Betiuk
PC InSEA Board Member – Małgorzata Karczmarzyk
PC InSEA Board Member – Lucilla Kossowska

The Board activity has been supervised by the Revisionary Commission composed of:

Revisionary Commission President – Beata Marcinkowska
Revisionary Commission Member – Krzysztof Wosik

IV.

Aim and object of PC InSEA activity

1. The main goal is to participate in the development, dissemination and strengthening of education through art in Poland as well as to support co-operation with state and international societies in the field.

2. Education through art is an integrated process involving the shaping of aesthetic impressions resulting from confrontation with art as well as inspiring creative activity. The greatest emphasis in the process is put on visual arts.

The aims of PC InSEA are:

1. Further studies on the theory of the educational and social meaning of art and visual arts, particularly in contemporary culture.

2. The perfectioning of educational practice present in schools and outside schools, activities aiming at improving the share of art (especially visual art) in educational process as a whole.

3. Organizing co-operation with the “education through art” specialists and the specialists of other branches, also from outside educational circles,

4. Co-operating with state, foreign and international centres dealing with similar issues,

5. Organizing meetings, seminars and conferences on state and international level, aiming at the exchange of practical experiences, arranging problematic discussions,

6. Participation in InSEA congresses and meetings, co-operation with UNESCO on state and international level,

7. Running economic activity in order to achieve statutory aims.

PC InSEA is in possession of an abundant collection of its own publications and of a collection of films documenting the projects on education and education through art.

The most important projects organized on the territory of Poland (2003-2006)

1. Small Child’s Art Festival, Łódź, 2000-2006

Co-ordinator: Monika Goetzendorf-Grabowska, Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi

The project has a six years' tradition and a commonly approved formula. It constitutes an anticipated form of supporting the artistic activity of small children as well as of their teachers.

The event engages self-government institutions, kindergartens, societies functioning in Łodź and all around Poland. Annually it has ca. 1000 participants. A special catalogue with a CD is issued every year.

More on the website: www.pm97.edu.lodz.pl

2. International Summer Wokshops for Children, Weimar, Germany, (1994-2006)

Co-ordinator: prof. Wiesław Karolak, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Łodzi, Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi

More on the website: www. asp.lodz.pl/spaceandplace

3. History’s Open Window International Summer Academy of Art, Jelenia Góra (2003-2004)

Co-ordinator: prof. Wiesław Karolak, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Łodzi, Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi

Annual artistic workshops organized since 1998, based on the topics of the past and the future. They are a continuation of artistic-ecological meetings that were held in Załęcz Wielki for four years, since 1994.

History's Open Window is composed of seven-day workshops for students, culture animators and pedagogues, conducted in five parallel groups and hosted by invited guests from Poland and abroad. The Academy is concluded with a collective exhibition, a parade and the issuing of a catalogue. Each time there were about 130 participants from Poland and abroad.

More on the website: www.karolak.wshe.lodz.pl

4. Vincent’s Pocket International Creative Angst Workshops, Poznań, (2002-2006)

Co-ordinator: Tadeusz Wieczorek, Children’s Art Centre in Poznań

- an annual international artistic project, addressed to students and young artists,

- creative, interdisciplinary workshops for children and adolescents,

- a seminar for societies, students, teachers and art animators,

- meetings and group discussions,

- promotion of artistic academies that take part in the project,

- promotion of Poznań and of the states that take part in the project.

For our workshops in May we invite students from Poland and abroad, studying at artistic education departments, academies of fine arts and pedagogical academies and working with children and adolescents.

In the seminar we present societies, foundations, artists and students who have since 2004 realized or are presently realizing artistic projects in public spaces, involving children, adolescents and adults. Teachers, instructors, day room tutors as well as the citizens of Poznań and Wielkopolska are invited to participate. We have also invited guests from Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. The seminar will be a forum for the representatives of different circles.

More on the website: www.csdpoznan.pl

6. Two-Semester Study On Art-Therapy, Poznań (2003-2004), Katowice (2004-2007)

Co-ordinator: prof. Wiesław Karolak, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Łodzi, Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi

A cycle of classes and workshops conducted by invited Polish and foreign lecturers. Since 1999, the event has been co-organized by the 2^nd Psychiatric Clinic in Łódź and the Polish Erickson Institute. The venue includes tackling the issues of taking advantage of and transferring art into treatment and rehabilitative processes in various healthcare units, kindergartens, schools and cultural units. The event is annually attended by ca. 30 people from Poland. Participants acquire a final certificate. Participation is paid.

More on the website: www.p-i-e.pl/Strony/arteterapia.htm

7. Under a Starry Sky, Giżycko, (2002-2006)

Co-ordinator: Tadeusz Wieczorek, Children’s Art Centre in Poznań

A cycle of creative workshops for primary school children. It also includes teacher meetings, on which various artistic projects prepared by the children with the co-operation of Children’s Art Centre in Poznań are presented. The project focused on characteristic city spots and it encouraged the children to find magic places.

Five-day workshops – three workshops a day with 25 children on each workshop – were held in the courtyards of the Garrison Club or, weather being too severe, in its concert hall. On the last day, we organized workshops and presentations In the city centre’s square. We arranged a presentation (photos, videos) of the “workshops’ output” which included various artistic projects realized by the Polish Committee of the International Society for Education through Art – InSEA and Children’s Art Centre in Poznań.

The 2005 workshops again took place in Giżycko and were attended by children from Poland and Lithuania, within the My Neighbour is My Friend exchange programme between the cities of Troki (Lithuania), Giżycko (Poland) and Düsseldorf (Germany). The project was co-financed by the European Union.