"Tadeusz (Tadek) Wodarczak's romance with stone began in the early 1980's with the reconstruction work in a devastated Jewish Cemetery in southwest Poland. Spread across 12 acres in the heart of the former-German city of Breslau, the 19th-century cemetery, with it's 14,000 memorial markers and tombs exquisitely carved from stones imported from around the world provided an ideal setting to hone traditional stone cutting methods and restoration skills. Over the 15 years at the cemetery-museum, Tadek meticulously pieced together and restored approximately 4,500 gravestones and magnificent mausoleums. He also ran stone cutting and conservation training programs for university students from around the world and trained young apprentices from a variety of backgrounds: technical school students, a taxi driver and former addicts from a drug rehabilitation center. Tadek received his Master Stonemason papers in 1989.

In 1993, Tadek took on the job of entirely reconstructing an ornate baroque building on the historic town square in Wrocaw, Poland's fourth largest city. In just under a year's time 286 decorative stone elements were carved by 24 masons from 180 tons of Lower Silesian sandstone using largely traditional stone cutting methods. Tadek has also done original carvings and monument preservation work in Germany and in other regions of Poland. Today Tadek operates a private stonecutting workshop, which specializes in small stone architecture (fountains, fireplaces, memorial tablets, statuary and gravestones, etc.) and monument restoration. Much of Tadek's work is based on his own original designs and technical drawings. He is particularly interested in architectural stone design and in teaching stonemasons.