Irena Romendik, an Adjunct Professor at Anant, is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist. A multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn and a visionary academician, she holds degrees from Shevchenko Art School, Kyiv and Pratt Institute and ITP, New York.

Irena has participated in multiple shows, designed costumes for dancers, and performed herself in many of them. Irena values the process of artistic creation over production. Her multidimensional interests have produced projects that cross disciplines and sometimes are difficult to categorise.

In addition to her artistic practices, Irena teaches art to people aged 5 to 95. Her methodology is rooted in multicultural traditions, from Leonardo Da Vinci’s observations and experimental pedagogy to Bauhaus structural practices mastered by Paul Klee and Kandinsky and Goethe’s approach to light and colours. She also takes inspiration from the Arts and Crafts movement, Japanese compositional principles, alchemy, Ayurveda, Suria Chikitza and the basic physics of electromagnetic radiation.