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ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN ŁÓDŹ
It is a public university in Łódź for artists. Created in 1945 was one of seven academies of Fine Arts in Poland. This event of creating such an important school was a great success for the city and local artists. There were two great men who contributed to the establishment of the academy: Władysław Strzemiński and Stefan Wegner. This complex university offers to modern students a great variety of major educational programs of fashion designing, jewelry,artistic fabric and many others. Holding the name of Władysław Strzemiński, school is located on 121, Wojska Polskiego Street in Łódź. Its president is professor Grzegorz Chojnacki. The academy hires 63 academic employees who take care of 1118 students’ education.

HISTORY
The university was created in 1945 as a Public Academy of Arts in Łódź. It was created by the hands of many local artists: Władysław Strzemiński and Stefan Wagner, as well as invited guests from abroad: Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski, Roman Modzelewski, Ludwik Tyrowicz, Władysław Daszewski and Stefan Byrski. At first there were only three departments: department of fabric and cloths, ceramic department and department of graphics. Its first president was Leon Ormezowski. For two years all the professors and founders were creating a program, searching for inspiration in artistic and didactic literary outputs of Bauhaus and Kazimierz Malewicz’s pedagogical experience. Władysław Strzemiński had a great influence on academy’s development, not only by teaching there for 5 years but also by his artistic and didactic approach settled academy’s image. That’s why the academy adopted his name in 1988. Leon Ormezowski was another important person in the academy's development. He was a painter, a theoretician and a teacher from sphere of avan garde of 20-ties and 30-ties of XX. Creator of unizm theory and most of all a person strongly connected with Łódź despite the fact that his city of origin was Mińsk. He lost his arm, leg and sight in one eye during the First World War but that did not discourage him to continue his artistic education. He ended up as an assistant of Kazimierz Malewicz in Russia. Just within few years he found himself in forefront of Russia’s avant garde, cooperating with Eliezer Lisicki and Alexander Rodczenka. In 1931 he came to live in Łódź for good. There he developed his Association of Polish Artists. 1932 he received a Reward of Town Łódź. In 1976 the academy was expanding, that is why its president decided to change its location to a more modern and bigger building. It was an important year for the academy. Until that year it has been located in post-war building and was being relocated to a completely new schoolhouse, designed by Bolesław Kardaszewski himself. Monumental building is now one of examples of contemporary realizations just for this artistic academy. At the end of XX-th century the name of the academy was changed. In 1996 it was renamed to Academy of Fine Arts and stays that way until now.

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
Academy organizes competitions, displays and fashion shows for their students. Also Academy cooperates with foreign Academies not only for Erazmus program for student exchange, but also for internships and employees’ scientific delegations. Main cities are Hasselt, Wielkie Tyrnowo, Zlin, Helsinki, Grenoble, Lyon, Paris, Alicante, Altea, Burgos, Malaga, Walencja, Dublin ,Dortmund, Berlin, Lisbon, Porto, Geneva, Izmir, Balcali, Budapest, Florence, Urbino, Brescia.

STUDENTS’ SUCCESS
Some of Academy’s students praise their Academy all around the world by taking part in competitions organized by various Universities, Academies, Institutes. There are examples of couple of students who managed recently to reach the top. Daria Piotrowska won the third edition of Young Design contest organized by the Urban Design Intitute. Project “CATPOD” is a home-cats’ transport with which she defeated nine other projects qualified to the finals. Katarzyna Malec, III year student from Design and Interior Architecture Department, won first prize in “Spa-Art” 09/10 contest for “YinYang” project. Dominka Drezner won with a design of a new baby carriage for competition organized by producer and distributor of such devises. Joanna Leszczyńska received Grand Prix 2012 for graphics. Ewa Buksa-Klinowska, a student of Jewelry Department, was honored with 24th International Cloisonne Jewellery Contest.

STRUCTURE – DEPARTMENTS
- Department of Graphics and Painting o Faculty of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture o Faculty of Graphical Design o Faculty of Workshop Graphics o Faculty of Multimedia - Department of Fabric and Cloths o Faculty of Plastic Education o Faculty of Fabrics Printing o Faculty of Jewelry o Faculty of Cloths - Department of Design and Architecture o Faculty of Design o Faculty of Visual Communication o Faculty of Interior Architecture - Department of Visual Arts o Faculty of Painting and Drawing o Faculty of Sculpture, Intermedia and Space Operation o Faculty of Graphics o Faculty of Photography, Film and Digital Media o Faculty of Theory and History of Art

ACADEMY’S AUTHORITIES
University President : prof. Grzegorz Chojnacki Vice-rector of Science: prof. Andrzej Szadkowski Vice-rector of Teaching: prof. Zbigniew Purczyński