Maryana, our Arts Editor, was born in Odessa, Ukraine. Her family emigrated to the US in the late 1970’s. She pursued her interest in fashion and graduated from FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York. She is currently working with the Mystetskyi Arsenal Art Museum Complex in Kiev on their inaugural Biennale in May 2012, and this, coupled with her intimate knowledge of her home country, gives her article on Ukrainian Art unparalleled insight.