On this, the day of our closing performance, we would like
to feature the woman who made us all look so good. Mishka is one of the area's
busiest costume designers. Earlier this year, she had TWO shows she designed
running at the same time in two different COUNTIES.
Mishka had some of her artwork published in a college
literary magazine which is the closest she has ever come to being a ‘published
author.’
“I was really excited because I didn’t know I had been
chosen to be represented until the magazine was published,” she said.
Mishka, who brags that she has never been subjected to a
painful seminar, is lucky enough to be doing exactly what she always wanted to
do: designing costumes (although she will gladly accept designing work that
pays a whole lot more). She does say that barring that, she would love to just
be a painter for a living. In fact, her dream project would be “a big art
commission which gets me exposure and recognition as an artist.”
Mishka’s favorite writers are John Steinbeck (The Grapes of
Wrath; East of Eden; Of Mice and Men) for his use of imagery, John Irving (The
World According to Garp; The Cider House Rules; A Prayer for Owen Meany) and
Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues; Still Life with Woodpecker;
Jitterbug Perfume) for their interesting quirky characters and humor, and Isabel
Allende (The House of the Spirits; City of the Beasts; Paula FrÃas Allende;
Eva Luna) for her beautiful stories and characters with a female perspective.
She is sometimes recognized for, of all things, her dancing. “People seem to think I am good dancer. I
seem to be pretty visible at events where there is dancing involved. I get
recognized as "that good dancer". I have also done professional belly
dancing and sometimes get recognized from that.”
Tell me one thing about you that people would find surprising.
“Despite my diminutive size at 5'1" I am a pretty
lethal swords-woman/fencer and could take your eye out from 5 feet away ;-)
Yarr harr!”
Seminar closes today, August 3, 2014. Closing performance
begins at 2 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran
8t & James
Seattle
Pay-What-You-Can-Afford
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