Olesya Amacker (Vazhnik) – graphic artist and illustrator. Got her education in Moscow State Academy of Publishing under guidance of A. V. Vasnetsov.
I was very fortunate to be taught by Andrei Vasnetsov (1924-2009) – painter, muralist, WWII veteran. He was one of the founders of “severe style”– a new direction in Soviet art.
Since then she worked as a graphic designer, running with a partner their own studio in Moscow before relocating to the US.