Anna Katrina Marciniak is an American multi-disciplinary contemporary artist, designer and director, born and raised in New Hampshire. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College with an Artium Baccalaureus in both English and Theatre, earning highest honors in the major. Marciniak's first undergraduate research grant through the Gertrude Heller Memorial Foundation centered on horseback riding as an integrative therapy for neurodiverse children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
From the age of six Marciniak has been immersed in performance and art related activities. Marciniak acted and sang in a range of lead roles at Bryn Mawr College, to include: Twelfth Night, The Threepenny Opera, Hamlet, Antigone, and Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide, culminating in her thesis role, King Lear.
In times of great political and social necessity, Marciniak has appropriated the work of Polish painter, set designer, director, playwright, graphic artist and theatre theoretician Józef Szajna. Marciniak faithfully recreated Szajna's original performance scenario Replika for her second thesis, directing the adapted performance and creating the set, sculpture, puppets and paintings for Replika.
Marciniak has performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and was an NCAA Division III field hockey scholar-athlete.
Marciniak studied Polish theatre, culture and fine art at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland on a Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship. In an effort to understand the discipline and devotion referred to in Jerzy Grotowski's Towards A Poor Theatre, Marciniak became a certified yoga teacher in 2011, completing over 200 hours of training in New Jersey. In the summer of 2023, Marciniak was retrained at the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in upstate New York, under the auspices of the True World Order, the oldest yoga teacher training program in the West.
Marciniak studied Sogetsu ikebana, ceramics and jewelry/small metals at the Honolulu Museum of Art School from 2014-17, finishing Book IV of Sogetsu ikebana.
Marciniak studied hand-building at the Hawaii Potters Guild and interned in the Master Gardener program through the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Marciniak studied landscape design and horticulture at Longwood Gardens and is a climate activist, Futurist and proponent of native species landscape restoration.
Marciniak has participated in Sogetsu ikebana group shows at the Honolulu Museum of Art School and Nordstrom Ala Moana. Marciniak has shown her thesis work as a sculptor at the Delaware Contemporary.
In 2020, Marciniak earned her Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture on a Graduate Teaching Assistantship with full tuition scholarship from The University of Delaware, an R1 classified Research Institution.
Marciniak is ASME [American Society of Mechanical Engineers] certified for GTAW [Gas Tungsten Arc Welding] schedule 80 2" pipe in the 6G position.
Marciniak is certified by the AWS [American Welding Society] in D17.1 Specification for Fusion Welding for Aerospace Applications for [GTAW] stainless steel, carbon steel and aluminum in the 3G position.
Marciniak is certified by AWS in D1.1 Structural Welding for SMAW [Shielded Metal Arc Welding] and FCAW [Flux Cored Arc Welding] in the 3G and 4G positions.
Marciniak is delighted to be the 2023 William A. Rice Foundation "Women in Welding," National Scholarship Award recipient, which will fund her advanced training and AWS certifications in GMAW [Gas Metal Arc Welding] aluminum.
Anna Katrina Marciniak is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and the American Welding Society. She teaches yoga internationally online and at the local Y.