Shows how Sawka's experience as a political refugee, and his working method, which emphasized imagery drawn from memory, resulted in powerful works that speak of and to the universal human condition.
Hanna Maria Sawka has a BA in English and Theater from Smith College and an MFA in Film, Television, and Theater Directing from the Polish National Film School. Together with her mother, Hanna Sawka, Hanna Maria manages the estate of her late father, Jan Sawka, whose work is in over sixty museums around the world, including the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Polish National Museums in Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan and Gdansk.
