Kateryna Kusko graduated from the Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts of the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Professionally connected with her home university. She works in textile art and graphics. She is the author of scientific articles on textile art. She has participated in exhibitions in her homeland and abroad.

Motto:
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale war with Ukraine. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which tens of thousands of women serve, have been defending the Motherland. Unfortunately, it is not possible to avoid capture at war. On April 2, 2022, another exchange of prisoners took place – Ukrainian women soldiers returned from Russian captivity. The Russian occupiers tried to break the captured women morally by using various types of humiliation – undressing them, demanding that they speak Russian, shaving their heads, which is a violation of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War. However, in the photos taken after our Defenders had returned from captivity, I did not see depression on their faces, but dignity and light. My work is dedicated to them, they are beautiful internally and externally – with or without hair...