Author-Illustrator & Animator
About
In 2023 I received a Fulbright grant to pursue a master's degree in the US, and in 2025 I graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in Illustration.
Since the start of russia's full-scale invasion, home has been a recurring theme in my personal work. In 2024 I created Homebound, my author-illustrator debut, a wordless picture book about war in Ukraine. The book was published by Orecchio Acerbo (Italy) in 2026.
I've been working professionally as an illustrator and designer for nearly a decade, collaborating with publishers and organizations in Ukraine, the US, and internationally. I work both digitally and traditionally, with a particular love for watercolor and colored pencils. I also can't stop drawing birds!
If you'd like to work with me or just want to say hi, please send an email at winklerita[at]gmail.com. I'd love to hear from you!
Recognition & Awards
2026 Communication Arts — Illustration Winner
2025 3×3 International Illustration Show No. 22 — Merit Award 2x
2025 American Illustration 44 — Chosen Winner
2025 Northern Festival of Illustration Prize—Emerging Animator Shortlisted
2025 Muskie Professional Fellowship
2024 The Unpublished Picturebook Showcase #6
2023–2025 Fulbright Graduate Student Award
2023–2025 RISD Academic Fellowship
Select Festivals
2025 ANIMAGE Festival, Brazil
2025 Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine
2025 Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Ukraine
Select Clients
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
The Old Lion Publishing House
Laboratory Publishers
Nash Format Publishers
Vivat Publishing
Yakaboo Publishing
Knygolove
Local History
Gallery Exhibitions
2025–2026 Collaborative Futures—Small Approaches, Gmünder Kunstverein Galerie, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
2025 Something Around Storytelling, Land to Sea, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2025 RISD Grad Show, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI, USA
2025 In-Between, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
2025 11th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists’ Book Contest, Fleet Library, Providence, RI, USA
2024 Illustration Graduate Program Summer Show, ISB Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
2024 RISD Illustration MFA Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
2017–2018 The Comic Continent on Tour, various locations in Georgia, Ukraine, and Lithuania