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Anna Pulvermakher was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia.
In 1991 Anna moved to Seattle, WA with her family
where she graduated from the University of Washington
with a degree in Mathematics and worked in the
software industry for five years. However, her real
passion was art. She attended art school as a
child in Russia and contintued her art
studies in Seattle by taking sculpture and drawing lessons from
Viktor Sirotin, an accomplished Russian sculptor. In
2002 Anna resigned from her software job and in the
Spring of 2003 she moved to New York City to pursue
her dream of becoming a professional artist. She took
part in several group exhibitions in New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania thoroughout 2004 and 2005.
Anna's most recent work can be seen in a three person show at A-Forest Gallery
in May 2008 in New York City.
She is currently working on a series of woodcuts. In
the spring of 2004 Anna met Waejong Kim at New York's
Fashion Institute of Technology
and in the fall of the same year they
founded Loopy Mango. Anna creates crochet accessories
as well as continues to work on her woodcuts. Anna and Waejong have published Crochet Jewelry: 40 Beautiful and Unique Designs
in the fall of 2007.
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