Anna Stawiarska was born in Gliwice and came to Bolesławiec when she was twelve years old. She is a graduate of the State Higher School of Visual Arts (now the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts) in Wrocław, where in 1980 she obtained a diploma in ceramic design in the studios of Prof. Irena Lipska-Zworska and Prof. Rufin Kominek. In 1993, she received a first degree qualification in fine arts in the artistic discipline of small sculptural form. She deals with drawing, but above all she is a ceramicist. She makes landscape reliefs and intimate spatial forms that allude in texture, shape and colour to natural objects such as rocks, minerals and fossilised plants. She is not tempted by extravagant and complicated compositions, as she considers them contrary to the nature of the material. The artist has mastered to perfection the combination of ceramic masses with different plastic properties and colours. Firing such complex mixtures requires a perfect mastery of technology based on numerous trials and experiments. However, the end result is always to some extent a coincidence – and that is the magic of ceramics.

Anna Stawiarska has devoted a large part of her life to teaching and therapy of people with disabilities through art. In 1987, she began working at the Institute of Fine Arts of the J. Długosz Academy (now the University of Humanities and Sciences) in Częstochowa, where she organised a ceramic sculpture studio and developed a curriculum for it. In 1993, she participated in the creation of a branch preparing for the profession of ceramist- decorator at the primary school for intellectually disabled youth in Katowice and for nearly 10 years she ran her own ceramic studio there. In the period 2003-2013 she was a lecturer of courses “Art and knowledge of culture in a reformed school” and “Pedagogical therapy with art therapy” at the faculty of pedagogy at the Higher School of Humanities and Economics (now the Academy of Humanities and Economics) in Łódź. In the period 2007-2016, she also worked as an assistant professor in the field of graphic design at the Silesian College of Information Technology and Medicine in Chorzów. At the same time, she taught sculpture lessons at the High School of Fine Arts in Tarnowskie Góry. In addition, she was involved in the organisation and development of therapeutic projects organised by the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology (Department of Art Therapy) of the University of Silesia and the Silesian Library in Katowice.

In addition, she conducts art therapy and art education classes in out-of-school facilities based on an original programme. In the years 1992-1998 she was a teacher at the Youth Palace in Katowice, and from 1996 to 2003 she worked as an instructor at the Training and Rehabilitation Workshop “Unikat” in Katowice.

Anna Stawiarska is also keenly involved in social activities. In 1994, she was among the founders of the Association for Supporting Creativity and Development of Disabled People “Unikat” and served as its president until 2000. She was also a founder and long-term vice-president of the Association of Chorzów Artists. Since 2000, she has been secretary of the Social Council of the Municipal Art Gallery “MM” in Chorzów. He is also the founder and president of the Association for Supporting Creativity and Art, established in 2011. Association for the Support of Creativity and Development AKME. Between 2016 and 2019, she ran a ceramics studio as part of the Chorzów Senior Academy. Since 2015, she has been running a ceramics studio at the Municipal Cultural Centre “Batory” in Chorzów.

In 2007 she received the Award of the Mayor of the City of Chorzów in the field of culture, and in 2010 she was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit