Violeta Mackialo ^{Noor kunstnik}

Violeta Mackialo is a curious, experimental, and open-minded artist from Lithuania. Starting her career as a graphic designer and illustration, in 2020 enrolled in her master’s studies in VAA (Vilnius Art Academy) Graphic Arts and Printmaking. This field dictates her a new way of creating process, which is full of unpredictability, coincidence, experiments, and joy of creative process which leads to expressing her inner self. Most of Violeta’s works distinguish for their sensitivity to the visual forms, used materials, interdisciplinarity (monotype mixed with cyanotype; illustrations made on the printer screen with augmented reality and etc.), unconventional visual decisions, and intuition. 2015 EIKA best art project 1st place winner for Temporary art space ‘LINKMENŲ’ 2016 Augmented reality book ‘Plains Stone’, the solo project 2018 Children’s book ‘Tilidūda’, typographer, visual artist 2018 Interactive social project ‘Every human – personal story’ 2019 Theater play ‘KItOKIA’, visual artist and animator 2020 Theater play ‘9.18’, visual artist and animator 2022 Theater book design project ‘9.18’, designer and illustrator 2022 Social board game project ‘Backpack of Sexuality’, visual designer Last Year Violeta was participating in 5 group exhibitions, and 3 workshops and organized a solo exhibition ‘The journey continues. Into the deep’ at Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center. 2021 Ary Stillman award; 1st place winner 2021 MArteLive award finalist; digital illustration category