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 a B.A. in 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 Józef Szajna, Polish painter, set designer, director, playwright, graphic artist and theatre theoretician.
Marciniak faithfully restaged Szajna's original performance scenario Replika, for her second thesis; directing both the adapted performance and recreating the set, sculptures, puppets and paintings.
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 200+ hours of training at the Freehold Yoga Center 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.
Currently, Marciniak is working on a 100 hour chair yoga certification through Siddhi Yoga International.
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 ceramic hand-building and wheel throwing at the Hawaii Potters Guild.
Marciniak 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.
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 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.
Marciniak is ASME [American Society of Mechanical Engineers] GTAW [Gas Tungsten Arc Welding] schedule 80 2" pipe 6G certified.
Marciniak is AWS [American Welding Society] D17.1 3G Specification for Fusion Welding for Aerospace Applications for GTAW stainless steel, carbon steel and aluminum certified.
Marciniak is AWS D1.1 3G and 4G Structural Welding for SMAW [Shielded Metal Arc Welding] and FCAW [Flux Cored Arc Welding] certified. Marciniak is AWS D9.1 4G GMAW [Gas Metal Arc Welding] Sheet Metal certified and AWS D1.1 4G GMAW 3/8" aluminum plate trained and 3G certified.
Marciniak is delighted to be the 2023 William A. Rice Foundation "Women in Welding," National Scholarship Award merit recipient, which funded her training and AWS certifications in FCAW and GMAW 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 Young Men's Christian Organization [YMCA].
She lives in the Mid-Atlantic.