The Institute for Community Research, in partnership with the Chair of Polish and Polish American Studies at Central Connecticut State University, has developed a project to explore the cultural heritage and artistic expressions of Polish Americans in Connecticut.
Admission is free.
The exhibit will continue in the Institute Gallery until March 31, 2001. Several workshops in Polish traditional art forms will be offered during the course of the exhibit, and a special Polish cultural evening will be held in the early spring at Central Connecticut State University. We make and use these articles to reconnect ourselves to a dimension of beauty, meaning, and spirituality remembered from a distance but also lived here. The Polish community in Connecticut is very large, numbering over 300,000 - nearly 10 per cent of the state's population. New Britain has the largest concentration of first and second generation Poles, and other areas with large populations include Bridgeport, Stamford, and greater Hartford.