Emilie Beneà ¡ováâÂÂBrzezià Âska (born Emilie Anna Beneà ¡ová; January 21, 1932 â July 22, 2022) was a Swiss-American sculptor and the wife of Zbigniew Brzezià Âski.
Emilie Beneà ¡ová was born in Geneva, Switzerland. She earned a fine arts degree at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, United States. After marrying, she sculpted for 25 years while raising a family, then had her first solo show in 1981 in Washington, D.C.
From the 1980s on, most of her works were in wood. Her monumental 1993 work Lintel, constructed from cut cherry trees and then cast in bronze, is in the collection of Grounds for Sculpture, a sculpture park and museum in New Jersey. She exhibited in the 2003 Florence Biennale and participated by invitation in the 2005 Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale. The Kreeger Museum had an exhibition of her work in 2014.
Václav Edvard Beneà ¡, a mathematician, was her brother. Shortly after graduating from Wellesley, Emilie Beneà ¡ová , herself a relative of Czechoslovakia's former president Edvard Beneà ¡, married Polish-born emigrant turned naturalized citizen Zbigniew Brzezià Âski, a political scientist who served as an adviser to Jimmy Carter while US president. The Brzezià Âski's had three children. Their oldest son, Ian Brzezià Âski, served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy in 2001âÂÂ2005. Their second son, Mark Brzezià Âski, was the U.S. Ambassador to Poland from 2022 to 2025. Their youngest child, Mika Brzezià Âska, is a co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC.
Emilie Beneà ¡ováâÂÂBrzezià Âska died on July 22, 2022, at the age of 90.