Maria Kieleczawa

Maria makes Easter pisanki in Hutsul patterns. She has learned to paint pisanki from her grandmother, mother and aunt. The family tradition is also continued by her daughters, Marta and Alexandra. Maria has won many contests and festivals, her works are featured on Easter tables and collections in USA, Canada, Africa, Germany, France, Ukraine and other countries, they are also featured in the Museum of Ethnography in Wrocław and Toruń, in the Museum of Pisanka in Ciechanowiec  as well as in the Saxon Museum of Folk Arts in Dresden. She is a member of Folk Artists’  Association in Lublin and of the Society of Artists and Designers of Lower Silesia in Wrocław