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Emilie Beneš Brzezinski (born Emilie Anna Beneš; January 21, 1932 – July 22, 2022) was a Swiss-American sculptor and the wife of Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Jul 22, 2022 · July 22, 2022 at 5:47 p.m. EDT. Wood sculptor Emilie Brzezinski in 2014 at her home studio in McLean, Va. (Mike Morgan for The Washington Post) 3 min. Her marriage to Jimmy Carter’s national...
ABOUT. Born in 1932 in Geneva, Switzerland, Emilie Benes Brzezinski immigrated to the United States and grew up in California. She graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in Art History in 1953. She received a scholarship to Boston Museum School, Massachusetts, in 1954 and completed a one year apprenticeship at Atelier du Feu in 1956.
Aug 29, 2016 · Emilie Brzezinski is a shining example of talent and passion, rising above the challenges and blazing a trail for women artists and sculptors worldwide.
Emilie Benes Brzezinski was born in Switzerland and emigrated to the United States. She studied at Wellesley College, earning a degree in fine arts. She pursued art seriously later in life after raising her family, was in her 40s when she eventually developed her own recognizable style in wood.
Jun 1, 2015 · Identity in Dialogue: A Conversation with Emilie Brzezinski. Family Trees, a Hide and Seek Story, 2010. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, of Czech parents, Emilie Benes Brzezinski has lived in the United States since her childhood. Though her artistic career goes back to the early ’70s, a period in which she experimented with a variety of media ...
Sep 2, 2014 · Emilie Brzezinski won first prize for sculpture at the 2003 Florence Biennial; a collection of monumental tree trunks lined with life-size family photographs.
The board and staff of McLean Project for the Arts are saddened to learn of the death July 21, 2022, of longtime MPA friend and supporter Emilie Benes Brzezinski. As an exhibiting MPA artist with a fabulous longtime studio in McLean, Emilie work was featured as recently as 2021 in our sculpture exhibition, Give & Take: Building Form.
Apr 30, 2021 · Emilie, who has Parkinson’s and has been dealing with the challenges of isolation during Covid-19, has found joy and resilience through her art. The tribute to her life, her art, and to her ...
Apr 30, 2021 · MPA will accept the mantle to establish the next chapter of sculptor and longtime McLean resident Emilie Benes Brzezinski’s spectacular body of work. The gift was announced at MPA’s...
