Irina Ratner

Irina Ratner graduated from the Art School in Memory of 1905 in Moscow. She worked as a production designer and costume designer at the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. She was a costume designer and puppet author for the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the International Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, a costume designer for variety, circus and theater groups (Larisa Dolina and others), and a freelance artist and illustrator. In Chicago, she worked as an artist-performer for the production of scenery at Ronsly Design Inc. as an artist at the Вranca gallery, and completed an Interior decorator course at the Art Institute in Shumburg .

The artist is the author of postcards for "Gina B" and "Kenguru and Joe".

Artist, author and performer in her own company "Design by Irina" : murals, dolls, soft sculpture, gifts, interiors. She was a production designer and costume designer at the Chicago Atrium Theatre from its inception until 2013 .