Beverly Branch hosts a Polish American Heritage Month art exhibit in October featuring artist Vicki Milewski.
Vicki Milewski is an American artist working through abstract expressionism with painting, drawing, dyeing, photography, film, words and music her primary mediums. Vicki’s art is internationally collected and exhibited by museums, organizations and private owners. Vicki’s music for choirs and solo piano is nationally performed. Vicki is also a published writer of articles, essays and poems; her nonfiction book A White River Valley has just been completed. Vicki‘s main artistic focus is creating work that is responsive to the healing potentials found in life, love and nature. Vicki is of Polish descent with her father being from a central Wisconsin Polish dairy farming community.
Artist Statement
“As an artist, I seek to understand our world, life and love through my artwork with freedom, truth, family and community as my foundation. Both my parents are inspirations for me. My art collections like Where Our Food Comes From and Milewski Lake Reflections were inspired by my family’s ancestral dairy farm in central Wisconsin, where our Polish grandparents created a community and my father continued agricultural pursuits on half of the farm while creating a lake and nature preserve on the other half. My father also inspired me by choosing Chicago to raise his family and sharing his love of travel with our family through many road trips, which inspired my Badlands Roads Collection. I carry on my parents’ dreams and honor them with my art."
