Heather A. Slomski was awarded a Minnesota State Artist Initiative Grant to travel to Krakow, Poland for six weeks to do research for and to draft her novel-in-progress, The Starlight Ballroom. The Starlight Ballroom takes place in Krakow and tells the fictionalized, somewhat fantastical story of the lives and deaths of her paternal grandparents. She was also awarded a Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant to work on this book.
Here are a few photos from the trip:
Rynek Główny (Old Town)
Rynek Główny (Old Town)
St. Mary’s Basillica
Stary Kleparz (market)
Cukiernia (Confectionery)
New Bone at Piwnica pod Baranami (Krakow Summer Jazz Festival)
Obwarzanki stand
Kazimierz courtyard (Jewish District)
Heather A. Slomski is a fiscal year 2013 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
