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Sheffield creating a record for the longest painting in the world at that time. In 1978 Nowak also designed and executed a series of coloured bill-board paintings based on famous works of art in the centre of
Sheffield. When the grass in a Sheffield park was scorched during a summer drought in 1986, Nowak and a number of local schoolchildren painted the blades of brown grass various shades of green. Other initiatives during her time at Sheffield included: teaching the technique of painting with dish-washing sponges; encouraging the public to carve sculptures into block of wood that had been delivered to the gallery; handing out chalk to passers-by to encourage them to become pavement artists; arranging for tree branches to be cut down so that children could paint them blue and hanging a nine-foot chiffon rainbow from a building society office in Sheffield.
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Library with Margaret C Topham. In this exhibition Nowak used multiple mediums including watercolour, ink drawing, acrylic, oil, conte and gouache but the themes of the exhibition remained uniform. The critic Aubrey Bush commented in
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Smallen, Ivor (22 August 1986). "Why Krysia painted the grass green".
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1987 - Organiser, designer fashion show Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham
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The Letchworth Museum, Letchworth Garden City, 2000, 2004 and 2010
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Pogorzelski, Janina (9 September 2008). "Art in Hertfordshire".
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1986-1987 - Founder member of the Anglo-Polish Society Sheffield
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Interview with the artist Krysia D. Michna-Nowak at her studio
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Parkin, Michael (20 August 1976). "Chance to outdo the Tate".
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1981 - Secretary of the Polish Medical Aid Appeal, Sheffield
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