PolandNow is a civic organization associated with the the Office of the Consul of the Republic of Poland in Knoxville in collaboration with the Office of the Mayor of Knoxville and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a mandate to promote Polish American Friendship and cooperation. PolandNow is sponsored, in part, by the Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation. For more information please contact: Honorary Consul Marek Pienkowski, M.D., Ph.D., Consulate of the Republic of Poland 7417 Kingston Pike, Suite 205 Knoxville, TN 37919 Telephone (865) 584-4112 Fax (865) 588-8140 polishconsulusa@gmail.com

The Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation seeks to foster the further development of art as a means of human expression in today’s world and seeks to widen the definition of art to all realms of the human experience. Though art is commonly associated with visual, musical and literary endeavors, it also includes work in the fields of science and education.