has received grants under Warsaw’s Mobile in Culture programme (2021), the City of Warsaw Artistic Scholarship scheme  (2024), and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage’s scholarship programme (2025) for projects bringing contemporary music and art to children and young people. As Head  of Education at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art until 2022, she worked with her team to devise, inspire  and implement a wide range of educational and outreach programmes opening contemporary art and music to diverse audiences. These included Smykowizje (2016–22), Art Viewpoints  (from 2016), Touch the Art (2019; curators: Joanna Rentowska  and Anna Szary), Collection Co–selection (2018–21), A Walking Guide (2021), and the 1st Prize-winning AUT/ART project  (2020; curator: Aleksandra Rajska). Since 2021 she has curated  the Little Warsaw Autumn Festival of Contemporary Music for  Children. She is currently Head of the Education Department at  the National Museum in Warsaw.

Her distinctive creative method brings together participation,  words and sound, cultural facilitation and artistic practice in  unexpected interdisciplinary combinations. Most often, she  develops her projects collaboratively with children, young people  and adults. Working with a wide range of participant groups, she  has created music projects such as MGM / Youth Music Journal,  Sing to Me, Mother, Chopin in Polish Songs, Memo-opera, OneMinute Classroom Song, Muse on the Spectrum, four editions of  Guliwer Puppet Theatre’s #Connections, and Talking of Colours. Kierkosz is the author of Fairy Tales from the Vistula, Bug and  Narew (2007); Mazurka, a cycle of pieces with music by Krzysztof Herdzin and Agnieszka Widlarz (2010); Smykowizje (2017);  What Are the Sounds Playing?, with music by Agnieszka Widlarz (2019); and Plim Plam Plum, published in 2024 and officially  launched in 2025. She also coordinated the nationwide study and  resulting research publication Amateur Music-Making in Poland  (research undertaken in 2013–15; report published in 2014).  

She devised the participatory project Space®opera, which  received an Impuls Kultury – Mazovian Cultural Inspiration  Award in 2024. She also devised and took part in For or With?  How Can We Create Genuinely Engaging Cultural and Artistic  Events Today?, one of twenty panel discussions selected by public vote for the 2024 współKongres Kultury. Her writings and  teaching materials have appeared in preschool and school music  textbooks and methodological guides, including publications by  WSiP. Musical miniatures setting her texts have been performed  by Mieczysław Szcześniak, Natalia Przybysz, Dorota Miśkiewicz,  Agnieszka Wilczyńska, Janusz Szrom, Joanna Trzepiecińska,  Jacek Bończyk and Agata Zakrzewska. She has also won prizes  in the national literary competitions For the Mayor of Warsaw’s  Pen (2005) and the Jerzy Kozarzewski Orzech Poetry Tournament (2018).

In 2026 she received the Polish Composers’ Union Award for Services to Music Education.