Yelyzaveta (Lisa) Glybchenko is an exhibiting and award-winning artist, designer and (social) entrepreneur. Originally from Ukraine, Lisa has spent many years living in Finland and Sweden, as well as working in Iceland, Denmark, Norway and the Faroe Islands. This geographical and cultural experience shaped the core of Tulivuoren Piirroksia.
Lisa creates art in both digital and analogue formats, whereby the latter largely involves pencil art, watercolors and liners. The geographical scope of Lisa’s artwork is impressively vast. Lisa has had solo and group exhibitions in: Ukraine (multiple exhibitions), Sweden, Finland (multiple exhibitions), the United States, the United Kingdom, Lithuania, and Bulgaria (multiple exhibitions).
From undergraduate to postgraduate level, Lisa has been formally trained in international relations and peace research (with focus on design and forecasting). Lisa studied in 14 universities and 3 educational institutions of other formats in 10 countries around the world. Lisa holds a Ph.D. in International Relations for completing her doctoral project "Visual PeaceTech: Digital Visual Images as Security-Building Tools" (2021-2025, Tampere University, Finland). All throughout this journey, she gathered insights into such important aspects of art and design work as political visual cultures, futures design, decolonization, and the use of visual art in defense and democratic peacebuilding. This background in incredibly important to Tulivuoren Piirroksia as well as Lisa’s entire art and design career.
Love & Lava
Love & Lava
"LOVING LAVA". Lisa and auto-portrait in markers and liners.
While Tulivuoren Piirroksia is a new brand project, Lisa’s previous design entrepreneurship has been incredibly successful. In 2016, Lisa founded her entrepreneurial initiative Color Up Peace, which uses digital visual artmaking as a futures design strategy to help civil society members in conflict-affected contexts create imaginative demos of peace arrangements. From a student initiative, Color Up Peace has grown to have projects/programs not only in Ukraine, but in about 15 other countries (e.g. Israel and Palestine and Kenya) attracting participation from around 30 countries. With the financial assistance of Operaatio Pirkanmaa / City of Tampere (Finland) and The Nordic Culture Point / Nordic Council of Ministers, Lisa created a special 13-month-long support program for Ukrainians who relocated to Finland during russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. (The program later scaled to have several events in Iceland and the Faroe Islands).
Lisa’s art and design work received a number of international awards, such as the 2024 Transformative Futures in Peace and Security Prize (Geneva Centre for Security Policy, 3rd prize), 2023 Jon Rieger award for exceptional work in visual sociology (International Visual Sociology Association), and the 2023 Creative Achievement Award (International Visual Literacy Association).
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