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prof Dorota Kołodyńska

Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Faculty of Stage Design
Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 37
00–379 Warsaw
Poland

Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland
Faculty of Stage Design
Costume Design Studio

Professor Dorota Kołodyńska is a lecturer at the Faculty of Stage Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland. She heads the Costume Design Studio, a division of the Academy authorized to confer master degrees.

Professor Dorota Kołodyńska implements her own educational program. Classes and lectures are constructed to inspire independent exploration, to overcome thinking stereotypes and to encourage the development of personal artistic expression. At the heart of learning process lies the research and individual experimentation with fabrics – the starting point of the design process. Education is not limited to specialized, industry-oriented knowledge, but emphasize the creative process. A personal contact between the lecturer and the student is most important, in a long tradition of any artistic education. This unique relationship leads to development of student’s personal expression.

Diploma works of graduates created in Costume Design Studio were presented at international exhibitions comparing the achievements of various art schools, such as the Biennale of stage design students’ artworks The International Stage Design Students’ Works Exchange at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China (2012 and 2014); Costume at the Turn of the Century 1995–2015 at the A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum in Moscow, Russia (2015); Exhibition of the Faculty of Stage Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Professors’ and Students’ Artworks in the  Gallery Castle, Casimir Castle in Przemyśl, (2015); Young Polish Scenography as part of the Prague Quadriennale in the Czech Center Gallery, Prague, (2019); Innovative Costume of the 21st Century; the Next Generation at the State Historical Museum, Moscow, 2019; Dimensions of Scenography in the Center of Polish Scenography in Katowice (where the works exhibited were awarded prizes and received distinctions in the Jerzy Moskal Stage Design Award Competition at the Festival of New Scenography) and also in the prestigious exhibition Coming Out – Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.