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Please see below short introductions of the officially registered artists promoting peaceful creation with our Art Against War Festival.
Be advised to check their sections in the gallery list for the dates of their presence. Not everyone is available to be present at every event. Please come back often to check on more creatives joining and adjustments to the agenda.
Thank you for supporting the Art speaking for the peaceful co-existence and creation.
Thank you for standing with us. Only together humans can create a happy, respectful life.
October 5,
Saturday, 6:00 PM
* Reflections
* The Border
* Brainwashed
* Artists from around the globe
October 12,
Saturday, 6:00 PM
* Reflections
* The Border
* Artists from around the globe
November 15,
Friday, 6:00 PM
* Reflections
* The Border
* Brainwashed
* Artists from around the globe
December 14,
Saturday, 6:00 PM
* Reflections
* The Border
* Artists from around the globe
December 21,
Saturday, 6:00 PM
* Reflections
* The Border
* Fractus - Art Talk about the Unity of units
* Artists from around the globe
A graduate from the State University in Vitebsk, Belarus, with a degree in Fine Arts. She continued her development at the Higher School of Management and at the School of National Leaders "Revival DJs". Eva's most remarkable talent is her ability to connect with people on a mental-creative level. Among her significant projects are the youth educational center "Fialta" and a series of educational workshops on art therapy.
Is a costume and fashion designer/maker, make-up & special effects artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Viktoriia works in the film industry, with theaters, music videos, in fashion design. She is a multi awards nominee and winner and continues to participate in global competitions. She loves to create unusual costumes that are never boring. Her reputation as a designer rests on the ability to be innovative and creative.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she has been organizing actions, fairs, and performances in support of Ukraine and political prisoners in Russia. Through her public installations, Antonina tries to draw attention to the children of war. Through art, she attempts to express her pain and unite people who oppose the actions of Russia's dictatorial regime. Antonina uses every possible mean to help Ukraine.
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 7:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 7:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 7:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 7:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 7:00 PM
Misha Suvorov is a trained actor from the city of theaters, Saint Petersburg, Russia. He graduated Sanford Meisner Center in 2016 and works on stage, TV and in film. Coming from an artsy soviet intelligentsia family, he enjoyed a privilege of having the best of what late soviet era of underground arts could offer. As of his acting style, Misha undertook Konstantin Stanislavski's method study and additional training in Mikhail Chekov's technique.
In 2013 Misha arrived at Hollywood were he studied at Sanford Meisner Center of Los Angeles to learn an American way of acting.
In 2024 his solo acting staged project, which he also happened to be producing, - The Border - won the Best of The Actors' group during the Hollywood Fringe festival.
The performance becomes the core stone of the current Art Against War Festival, the Art With the Accent movement and is a basis for the Accentric documentary (in the development).
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 8:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 8:00 PM
Brainwashed is a solo clown show by Alina Konon. It tells about growing up in a dictatorship. Alina brings her personal sometimes bizarre experiences from living in Belarus under a brutal regime to the stage. Her dark comedy explores the surreal and disturbing reality of growing up under dictatorship. She shares her childhood love for all things communist, and, through a series of absurd clown bits, she engages the audience in the process of brainwashing. The show features a mix of silly elements, including live cooking of soup, which is shared with the audience, creating an interactive and intimate setting. Trigger warnings: This is a dark comedy based on a personal experience, there will be mentions of death, murder, self-harm, and police brutality. Also partial nudity.
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Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 7:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 7:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 7:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 7:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 7:00 PM
Conceptual performance artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova is the creator of Pussy Riot, a global feminist art movement. She was sentenced in 2012 to 2 years' imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance Punk Prayer. Punk Prayer was named by The Guardian among the best art pieces of the 21st century.
Tolokonnikova's Putin’s Ashes art installation at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in January 2023 propelled her into a new criminal case and put on Russia’s most wanted criminal list. On June 21st, her debut museum exhibition RAGE, opened at OK Linz, Linz, Austria, and the eponymous performance piece performed at the Neue National gallerie on July 4.
For the Art Against War festival the artist sent the original print of her New Dark Ages Virgin Mary original limited print.
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 6:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she has been organizing actions, fairs, and performances in support of Ukraine and political prisoners in Russia. Through her public installations, Antonina tries to draw attention to the children of war. Through art, she attempts to express her pain and unite people who oppose the actions of Russia's dictatorial regime. Antonina uses every possible mean to help Ukraine.
ticketing and donation support
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 6:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Eva Love graduated from the State University in Vitebsk, Belarus, with a degree in Fine Arts. She continued her development at the Higher School of Management and at the School of National Leaders "Revival DJs" led by the renowned Belarusian opposition figure Pavel Sevyarynets. Eva's most remarkable talent is her ability to connect with people on a mental-creative level. She came to the U.S. in 2022 after facing increasing repression in her homeland, Belarus, due to the rise of totalitarianism and military tension. Among her significant projects are the youth educational center "Fialta" and a series of educational workshops on art therapy, including "Controlling Fear," "Faith and Doubt," "Emotion and Reason," and "Realizing Potential." Her programs are equally popular with adults and with children. Eva is the driving force behind the semiannual Creators United - Solstice Meet-Ups, which have become a signature program of DeepARTment.
ticketing and donation support
Days for Fractus at the festival:
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Vita Solzberg is the mastermind behind Vitart.Gallery, an art activist, promoter, and artist. Her repertoire includes organizing online and offline exhibitions, producing the @Vitart-info YouTube channel featuring the Art Talks show and backed up by Fractus.Info on-line magazine. She also creates her signature art form called Fractus, which secured a membership with the Pasadena Society of Artists for her. Fractus is a multi layered artistic symbol of the Universe with a rich history from around the world.
Vita's academic journey culminated in a degree in the History and Theory of Fine Arts in 1992 in Belarus, she continued her journey in journalism and documentary making. Current projects include Accenеtric documentary development, Komatchi's Sea Shell producing and DeepARTment's projects overlooking and directing as an Art Director.
Days at the festival:
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 22, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Philip Filimonau, also known as Phil Bearz, is an artist and filmmaker. Born into a family of media professionals, Phil was immersed in the world of TV and documentaries from a young age. At 8, he decided to become a cartoon director and began drawing extensively. His first short film, Lignum, created at 19, conveyed a message about the dangers of environmental neglect. His next film, National Service, critiqued the senselessness of war.
Phil’s professional filmmaking journey began at 20, assisting Russian director Dmitriy Astrakhan and later studying at the Baltic Film School in Estonia. Afterward, he specialized in VFX and now leads 2D animation at FROSTFILMS OÜ.
At Art Against War, we showcase Phil Bearz’s photography works from the RAGE exposition (Vitart.Gallery), his 5 min feature against wasting young people's lifes for feeding war machine, During the special Film Festival Day on December 22 we will present a new project Komatchi’s Sea Shell - an experimental animated film where a Japanese girl needs to find her true self to stop a war at her homeland.
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 6:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Ishwari, originally from Belarus but now based in the vibrant city of LA, is an artist who revels in musical exploration. While she holds a deep affinity for folk and mantra singing, Ishwari's creative spirit knows no bounds as she fearlessly delves into various genres. Whether she's enchanting audiences with intimate acoustic performances or weaving intricate soundscapes through live looping, Ishwari's music transcends boundaries, offering listeners a captivating blend of tradition and innovation.
At the Art Against Festival, the audience will not only enjoy her life singing and music improvisations but can participate in the practical training of the sound self-healing from this Music Art Therapy coach. What to expect during Ishwari's vocal yoga classes? - 🧘 Breatwork 🗣 vocal warm-up exercises 🎙️improvise singing 🕉️mantra meditation 😌stress relief 🔋pure energy 🫂 beautiful people ☸️chacras balancing
Days at the festival:
October 12, Saturday , 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Eya Ozerova Los Angeles based artist, born in the Ukraine. MFA degree from the Stroganoff University in Moscow.
Eya works in different media but her passion is needle felted large tapestries. She teaches her felting technique on which she published a book “Pictorial Felt”, and provides art workshops and healing art retreats. She brings people together to make one art piece for all, while focusing on one intention - harmony and peace within. In 2022 she started Ukrainian Mandala Project, gathering people together to creat collective art as an alternative to the war act of love and support for Ukraine.
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 6:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Viachaslau Shainurau lives in Vitebsk, Belarus. He works in the technique of oil painting, as well as graphics and photography. He started to exhibit in 2006 and still actively participates in regional, republican and international art exhibitions and projects. Viachaslau Shainurau constantly develop various projects resulting in personal exhibitions. His works are included in the collections of the Vitebsk Regional Museum of Local Lore, of the Gorodok Regional Museum of Local Lore, as well as in private collections in Belarus, Russia, Germany, Italy, and the USA.
ticketing and donation support
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 6:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Nadzeya Yurashevich from Belarus has been drawing since childhood. She graduated from a high school with a theatrical and artistic focus. After school, she entered art college at the Faculty of Design. As a student, she participated in the Republican art competition and took 1st place in the qualifying round. She also worked as an art teacher, then came back to school to study design at the university. Her favorite is drawing portraits with gouache, watercolor and colored pencils and still lives and landscapes in oils.
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 6:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Olesya Volk is a Los Angeles-based artist/writer.
She was born in Baku, Azerbajan; at the age of 16 moved to Moscow. There, she graduated from the State Institute of Theatre Arts; started publishing her tales and puppet plays.
After moving to the US, she received her MFA in Film & TV( Animation) at UCLA. Worked doing web animation.
In her paintings, Olesya explores patterns of nature, mostly tree bark, as a possibility of intuitive "readings" and leaps into the primordial language.
Olesya's art genres also include small dioramas, paper theatre; she writes and illustrates picture books and graphic novels.
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 6:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Aleksei Mokrousov is a graphic designer from Vladivostok, Russia, now residing in Costa Mesa, Orange County, California. He created an animated sticker pack for Telegram and print to express support and solidarity with the Russian-speaking LGBTQ+ community. His work is designed to help LGBTQ+ people and supporters communicate their protest against Putin's regime and homophobic laws in Russia, as well as their political stance and condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and ongoing human rights violations.
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 6:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 6:00 PM
My name is Harry Clay.
I was born in a country where personal space means nothing. Puzzle people, without a place in the sun. Where your freedom ends where another person's elbow begins. Apartments, like personal cells, limited in space. The Russian car industry, which is not for luxury, but for transportation (loading into which, you kind of take the form of this car). Buses, almost always in the state of canned herring. Rush hour, extended in time. To break out of this limited freedom, I began to engage in creativity. Freedom in creativity and in expressing yourself, that is what art is for me!
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 6:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Misha Shoom is an artist and political activist from Russia. He was forced to leave the country due to his anti-war activism and police persecution, including raids on his home. "Shoom" in Russian means "noise."
Days at the festival:
October 5, Saturday, 6:00 PM
October 12, Saturday, 6:00 PM
November 15, Friday, 6:00 PM
December 14, Saturday, 6:00 PM
December 21, Saturday, 6:00 PM
A participant in more than 20 international exhibitions. Member of the Professional Union of Russian Artists and the Union of Watercolorists of Russia.
I work with various media: oil, acrylic, and watercolor. I adore miniatures because they are charming, playful, vibrant, and always close by—on a shelf, on a table, on a dresser...
I also teach adults how to paint and am always happy to meet new friends and like-minded individuals.
Each of us has a unique brilliance within. Over time, it may fade behind the concerns and experiences of life, but it's still there. I want you to see that in yourself when you look at my paintings. I strive to help my students embrace bold colors and unexpected solutions without fear.
Days for Fractus at the festival:
November 15, Friday, 6:00 PM
ALKSANDR ELKIN AKA “Nik Le Skela” is a Hollywood-based artist and photographer specializing in nature, the outdoors, environmental issues and travel. Stock collection includes more than 2,000 artworks and continues to grow.
Education: University of Lviv, Ukraine / Master’s Degree of Journalism Specialty in Television Communications
Exhibitions:
Ukraine: "Nature’s Eye" Lviv, Ukraine 2007 / "Golden Leaf" Lviv, Ukraine 2008 / “Faces of Nature” ¬ Odessa, Ukraine 2010 / "Parallel World" Lviv, Ukraine 2011 / International Artists Collective Kiev, Ukraine 2015
USA: Long Beach Art Expo 2012 / Westwood Street Art Show 2018 Santa Monica / Street Art Show 2019, 2023 / Ukraine Cultural Center, Los Angeles 2014, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
