Mary Stanisia

**Sister Mary Stanisia, SSND**, (Mayu 4, 1878 - Janairu 28, 1967) ƴar Katolika ce, mai zane, kuma memba ta Sisters School of Notre Dame . 

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi **Monika Kurkowska** a ranar 4 ga Mayun shekarar 1878, a Poland.   Ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin yara goma sha biyu da aka kawo zuwa Amurka a cikin shekara ta 1881 a kan jirgin layin, *Strassburg*, ta iyayenta Franciszek, mai sassaƙa itace, da Katarzyna Kurkowski. Sun canza sunan suna zuwa "Kurk" bayan sun isa Amurka. Sun fito ne daga yankin Jamus na Poland . Iyalin sun zama membobin cocin St. Stanislaus na Poland inda Monika ta halarci makarantar firamare. Ta ci gaba da zuwa Cibiyar Nazarin Uwargidanmu kafin ta bar gida don yin karatu tare da count Tadeusz Żukotyński a Munich . Żukotyński, ɗan wasan fasaha da aka haife shi a Poland, ya koya wa Stanisia yin zanen fasahar addini, gami da zane-zane. 

## Farkon aiki
Ta koma Amurka a cikin shekara ta 1893 kuma bayan shekaru uku, bayan kiran addini da ta ji tun tana yarinya, ta koma Milwaukee, Wisconsin kuma ta shiga Makarantar Sisters na Notre Dame da sabon sunan addini, *Mary Stanisia* . Ta yi shekaru uku masu zuwa a cikin novitiate na ikilisiyar addini. A cikin Maris ɗin shekarar 1899, Ƴar'uwa Mary Stanisia ta ɗauki alkawuranta na ƙarshe a St. Mary's a Michigan City, Indiana .  A cikin wannan shekarar ta zana *Mai Tsarki Zuciyar Yesu*, zanenta na farko da aka sani. 

Stanisia ta koyar da fasaha a Makarantar Mu Lady of Lourdes a Marinette, Wisconsin, kuma ta ba da darussan fasaha masu zaman kansu daga farkon wannan faɗuwar. Ta koyar a can har zuwa shekarar 1905, lokacin da aka tura ta zuwa Kwalejin St. Mary a Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, inda ta yi shekaru biyu masu zuwa.  A cikin 1907, an sanya Sister Stanisia zuwa Kwalejin Kwalejin Uwargidanmu a Chicago, inda ta yi karatu tun tana yarinya. Ta kafa ɗakin zane-zane, wanda ya isa ya ƙirƙira zane-zane, kuma ya zama darektan shirin Fine Arts na makarantar. 

## Ƙarin horo
Tun daga 1916, Stanisia ta ci gaba da karatunta na fasaha a Makarantar Cibiyar Fasaha ta Chicago (SAIC).  Ta yi nazarin zane-zane tare da John W. Norton, shimfidar wuri tare da Frank Charles Peyraud, zanen hoto tare da Wellington J. Reynolds, da hoto tare da Leopold Seyffert . Albin Polasek ya koya mata sassaka.   Stanisia ta kammala karatun digiri tare da digiri na Fine Arts a cikin 1919, bayan da aka nuna a cikin kowane nunin shekara na makarantar. An kwatanta kundin tarihin SAIC na 1917-1918 tare da zanenta, *Kayan Aure na Babbar Kakarta* .  Stanisia yayi karatu a karkashin Robert Clarkson tsakanin 1915 zuwa 1922 kuma yayi karatu a lardin Provincetown, Massachusetts, lokacin bazara tare da Charles Webster Hawthorne . 

Yayin da Stanisia ke karatun fasaha, tana kuma neman ilimin falsafa. Ta sauke karatu daga Jami'ar DePaul a 1922 tare da Bachelor of Falsafa .

## Sana'a
A matsayin balagagge mai fasaha Stanisia ta zana kwamitocin hotuna, zane-zane, da ayyuka masu jigo na addini.  Ta zana wani babban bango na tsakiya don bagadi a Basilica na St. Hyacinth, bisa aikin da Zukotynski ya tsara a can. Wataƙila shi ne babban rukunin farko na aikinta.  Ta kuma yi ayyuka ga Coci na St. Stanislaus Kostka da Holy Cross a Chicago, waɗanda aka gina a cikin abin da ake kira salon Cathedral na Poland . 

A cikin shekara ta 1926, ta nuna zane-zane guda huɗu a taron Eucharistic a Chicago, wanda aka gudanar don haɓaka fasahar Eucharist na Katolika. Bayyanar ya haifar da ƙaruwa mai yawa a cikin kwamitocin.  A kusa da 1926 Stanisia ta kammala Tashoshi na Zagayen Giciye a Kudancin Kudancin Chicago don Cocin St. Margaret na Scotland . Ta kirkiro ayyukan fasaha kusan hamsin, gami da hotuna da zane-zane, cikin shekaru hudu masu zuwa. 

A cikin shekarar 1929 ta kafa sashen fasaha a Kwalejin Mount Mary, wani ɓangare na ikilisiyarta a Milwaukee, yayin da ta ci gaba da jagorantar shirin a Chicago. Ta kafa Art Guild na Chicago a shekara mai zuwa, bisa Longwood. 

Hotunanta sun haɗa da, *Hoton Bishop John F. Noll*, na Roman Katolika Diocese na Fort Wayne-South Bend, *St. Theresa*, *Mai Tsarkin Zuciyar Yesu* . Ƙungiyar Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Amirka ta ba ta izini ta zana hoton Paparoma Pius XI, wanda ya rataye a tsohon Kwalejin Iyali mai tsarki a Chicago. A cikin 1934, ta kuma zana hoton Edward Kelly, Magajin garin Chicago, da kuma a cikin 1933 na Gwamna Horner na Illinois . 

Stanisia na ɗaya daga cikin nuns da yawa waɗanda suka sami damar haɗa rayuwarsu ta ruhaniya tare da ayyukansu na fasaha. Wannan ya haifar da ƙirƙirar fasahar Katolika na Amurka zalla, tare da gumaka da salonta.

An nuna aikinta a cikin 1925 a Eucharistic Congress .  A cikin 1930, an nuna aikinta a Gallery of Wisconsin Art wanda *Jaridar Milwaukee* ta gudanar.  Ta lashe lambar azurfa a Warsaw International Fair na 1932. A cikin 1935, an nuna aikinta a Evanston, Illinois a Davis Galleries. 

## Mutuwa
Ta mutu a ranar 28 ga Janairu, 1967, a Elm Grove, Wisconsin, bayan ɗan gajeren lokaci a cikin Infirmary na Notre Dame.  

## Tari

* Adrian College, Michigan 
* Holy Cross Church, Chicago 
* Asibitin St. Joseph, Chicago 
* Cocin St. Margaret, Chicago 
* St. Paul Cathedral, Minnesota 
* Kwalejin Cardinals, Washington, DC 

## Duba kuma

* Jozef Mazur
* Yaren mutanen Poland
* Ƙungiyar Roman Katolika ta Poland ta Amurka
* Yaren mutanen Poland style Cathedral
* Roman Katolika a Poland

## Manazarta