Anastasia is a MA student in the Arts Policy and Administration program. Moscow (Russia) born and life-long resident. She made a career as PR-executive, developing and implementing national communication campaigns for international brands. As a department head she and her team specialized on art collaborations, exhibitions, performances, being a successful liaison between commercial and artistic interests.

Anastasia finds art as a great source of inspiration, self-reflection and inner power, and hopes to make both academic and practical contributions in its accessibility and museums/audiences interaction.

Anastasia speaks English, Spanish, Italian.

Fun fact: Half-Russian, half-Ukranian, Anastasia can cook “deruni” (potato pancakes), “borsch” (beet-root soup), and “herring under a fur coat” (herring under layers of vegetables).

Research Interests

• Museum education
• Art Ideas Delivery
• Community engagement
• XX century art
• Feminist and LGBT ideas expressions in autocratic states