Ildikó Kalapács has always wanted to help people. She dreamed of becoming a psychologist when she was young and living in Szeged, Hungary. She saw the dysfunctional society she lived in and the ...

Ildikó Kalapács didn’t set out to make a war memorial, yet that’s what her Bearing Project is becoming. Not the larger-than-life, imposing political statues of her Hungarian youth, though. “I have an ...

Spokane artist Ildikó Kalapács insists that her new show, a mixed-media art exhibition on refugees with participation of refugees, is not “political.” If anyone does try to politicize the issue at her ...

Learn more about Ildikó Kalapács’ project at thebearingproject.com. Ildikó Kalapács grew up in Hungary, when the Eastern European country was under Soviet control. Her grandparents lived and survived ...