American Council for Polish Culture

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The American Council for Polish Culture
Established1948
PresidentRaymond Glembocki
Address817 Berkshire Rd, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230
Location
Website polishcultureacpc.org

The American Council for Polish Culture (ACPC) is a national non-profit, charitable, cultural and educational organization that serves as a network and body of national leadership among affiliated Polish-American cultural organizations throughout the United States.

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History

Founded in 1948 in Detroit as the American Council of Polish Cultural Clubs, [1] [2] by early 2000s the Council currently represented the interests of some 35 to 40 affiliated organizations located in the United States. [3] Its oldest affiliated organization, the Polish Arts Club of Chicago, was established in 1928.

ACPC is currently headquartered in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. [4]

American Center of Polish Culture

In 1989 the ACPC established the American Center of Polish Culture which opened its doors in 1991 in Washington, D.C. The American Center of Polish Culture has, primarily, an educational function providing programs and exhibitions, but it also acts as a central point for the lobbying activities of the ACPC. The first director, taking office in 1991, was Dr. Kaya Mirecka-Ploss, who was then president of the ACPC. [5]

Awards, scholarships, etc.

Currently ACPC offers the following scholarship opportunities:

Affiliate organizations

Connecticut

District of Columbia

Florida

Illinois

Indiana

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

New Jersey

New York

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Texas

Virginia

Wisconsin

See also

Other similar organizations

Notes

  1. Lois Buttlar; Lubomyr Roman Wynar (1996). Guide to Information Resources in Ethnic Museum, Library, and Archival Collections in the United States . Greenwood Publishing Group. p.  271. ISBN   978-0-313-29846-2.
  2. Pula, James (2013), "American Council for Polish Culture" , Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia, SAGE Publications, Inc., pp. 193–194, doi:10.4135/9781452276274, ISBN   9781452216836 , retrieved 2019-03-06
  3. Laurie Palazzolo (2003). Horn Man: The Polish-American Musician in Twentieth-century Detroit. Wayne State University Press. p. 51. ISBN   0-8143-3193-9.
  4. "Polish Organizations in Michigan". Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Detroit. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  5. "History of the Center" American Center of Polish Culture 1 February 2008 from Internet Archive
  6. "Journalism scholarship press release" (PDF).
  7. Polish Arts Club of Trenton
  8. 1 2 John J. Bukowczyk (2006). Polish Americans and Their History: Community, Culture, and Politics. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 142. ISBN   978-0-8229-5960-1.
  9. 1 2 Thernstrom, Stephan (1980). Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups . Belknap Press of Harvard University. p.  800. ISBN   978-0-674-37512-3.