Marianna kulukundis biography for kids

This Fall-Winter the Italian scarf trend is feeling very stylized Babushka, an old European view of women. It’s what women are wanting to wear to play with a conservative, chic but bit fugly manrepeller look. Versace and Miu Miu give a rock ‘n roll and sexy edge feel to the librarian style. Gucci and Valentino bring on the more spiritual edge.

Valentino head scarf.

Illustrator Marianna Kulukundis renders the trend incorporating portraiture and fantasy. Read what else inspires her below.

Versace scarf worn with beret.

Name : Marianna Kulukundis

Birthplace :  London, UK

Métier : Artist, Illustrator, sometime producer

Sources of inspiration:
Anything and everything. Right now I am obsessed with the colors on
15th Century Majolica and braids depicted in art, from those found on
the women painted on the Majolica, to the braids on the back of the
Caryatids at the Acropolis. I want to do a series of ceramics that use
paired down decorative elements of braids.

Sources of motivation :  
Feeling satisfied with my work, which never completely happens, so it
keeps me motivated!

Miu Miu neck scarf.

What makes you happy :
My work. Traveling, Being curled up in bed when there is a thunder
storm outside, and most importantly silliness , an underrated quality.

Favorite reads :
I either read a lot or not at all, it goes in phases.
The Master and Margarita by Nabokov, a literary masterpiece that
includes witches flying on broomsticks, Tess of the D’Urbervilles by
Hardy, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, my
first favorite book since it was all about food!

Favorite tunes :
There are too many…! I love Planet Earth by Duran Duran and Love
is a Stranger by The Eurythmics. Also the soundtrack to Xanadu.
Who doesn’t need a little Olivia Newton John and ELO? I tried to
convince someone ELO was cool, they did not agree.

Stathes Kulukundis, a principal of the traditional London Greek shipping firm Rethymnis & Kulukundis (R&K), has died in Athens aged 81.

A son of R&K’s second-generation co-owner Michael Kulukundis and a brother to shipowner and author Elias, who died four years ago, Stathes was a highly respected and low-profile London Greek owner.

Apart from being a director with the family company, he held numerous positions in industry associations, including the Greek Shipping Co-Operation Committee (GSCC) and the Union of Greek Shipowners.

“He was a learned gentleman, notable for his character, wisdom, civility and sense of humour. He will be greatly missed,” said the GSCC, in which Kulukundis served for more than four decades as council member and vice chairman.

Kulukundis, who is survived by wife Koula, children Michel and Marianna and stepson Alexander, was born on 14 April 1942 in New York — where his father had been put in charge of running the family’s recently launched US office.

After studying economics at the University of Pennsylvania, young Stathes plunged into the family business, working out of R&K’s London headquarters at the operations, shipbuilding and financing departments.

A frequent shipping commentator in specialist publications such as Greece’s Naftika Chronika, he was also a board member at the International Chamber of Shipping while being active at the Baltic Exchange and the International Shipping Federation.

“His contribution to the GSCC and to Greek shipping in general was invaluable,” the GSCC said.

A vivid description of his family’s life was provided in the books written by his late brother Elias, who also started at R&K before becoming an independent ship investor and author.

Kulukundis’ funeral will be held on 2 March at noon in Vouliagmeni, Athens.

Over the past few months we’ve reached out to members of the CanvasRebel community to dive deeper into their stories. We wanted to learn how they got to where they are today and we heard stories that will keep our inspiration cup full for a long time. Their stories, lessons and humor have lifted our spirits and we hope you’ll take a minute to check out the stories below.

Rachel Thomas-Medwid’s Story

Growing up, I was always drawn to the arts. Along with my primary focus on creative writing, I trained as a classical pianist and was in a dance troupe in college and beyond. The act of creating something out of nothing never fails to give a thrill; whether it’s choreography, a piece of music, a short story, or a film. The route to filmmaking has been circuitous but I believe you’re meant to get to certain points in your life at the time you do for a reason. Coming into the industry “late in the game” so to speak could be considered a disadvantage but I’m embracing it. In my mind, I don’t have time to waste, which is motivating when it comes to doing the hard work. Maybe I’d have a similar mindset if I’d starting the filmmaking journey in my 20s, but who knows. As someone who has a whole separate career at this point, there’s a sense of security in my focus and ability to put in the work and get things done. There’s also this freedom in the feeling that there’s nothing to lose and everything to gain by continuing to pursue my creative endeavors. Read more>>

Elizabeth Tufegdzich of The Leadership Agency

Almost 10 years ago, I joined The Leadership Agency. I’ve always aspired to be a leader, to have a seat at the table where key decisions are made—and this role has given me exactly that. A lot of people who don’t know me personally wouldn’t know how deep my struggles with anxiety have been and the personal journey that shaped me along the way. Over a decade ag

Clarissa Tossin, who received a BFA from the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado in São Paulo, Brazil in 2000 and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, in 2009, works with moving-image, sculpture and installation to propose alternative narratives for places defined by histories of colonisation. Through a mix of research, storytelling, and gestures of mapping and layering, C. Tossin places seemingly disparate elements into conversation, generating unexpected moments of interconnectedness across time and space. C. Tossin’s childhood in Brasília heavily influenced early films and installations deconstructing Brazil’s modernist history, which over the years have expanded to encompass geographies ranging from her adopted home of Los Angeles to the vast realms of outer space.

From the solo exhibition Circumnavigation Towards Exhaustion at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse (2021) to solo shows at the MCA Denver (2022) and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2023-2024), the artist has woven terrestrial histories of resource mining and their material detritus with the imminent colonisation of life in space. Take Future Geography (2021–ongoing), a series made by flattening, cutting and weaving Amazon delivery boxes with NASA images of the Moon, Mars, stars and galaxies. The laborious process of construction quite literally intertwines capitalism on Earth and the commercialisation of space, translating the unrelenting drive of extraction into shimmering tapestries pulsing with the energetic geometries of Brazilian Neo-Concretism and the seduction of a shiny new object.

Elsewhere, the presence of fossilised trash and three-dimensional casts of objects – ranging from the silicone cast of a decomposing Sycamore maple tree in Death by Heatwave (Acer pseudoplatanus, Mulhouse Forest) (2021) to the skin-like latex cast of the Volkswagen automobile model Brasília in Transplanted (VW Brasília) (2012) – conjure ghostly traces of the afterlives of consumpti