Karolina Danek (b. 1913), emigrated to the United States from Jaroslaw, Poland in 1950. Her earliest works, based on the iconographic tradition of her homeland, hung in the store window of her gift shop in Worcester, Massachusetts. Today she lives in Caribou, Maine and she paints contemporary leaders placed in the context of their actions, as they appear to Karolina via television, news papers, and research done at the local library. Her preferred medium is paint with beadwork. She has done portraits of world leaders such as George Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Muammar Khadafi and Saddam Hussein. Her work is included in the collection of the Fenimore House Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

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