"We weren't taught about Rusyn art at school. We didn't even know that some artists who entered the canon, such as Nowosielski or Andy Warhol, were Lemkos. That was knowledge only a handful of specialists had," explains Magdalena Wróblewska, director of the Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw.
The Lemkos, an ethnic group that has lived for centuries on both the northern and southern slopes of the main ridge of the Carpathians, were for years overlooked by the European art mainstream.
