Lea Czikowski
Lea Czikowski is a community artist facilitator, documentarian and qualified teacher specialising in inclusive arts programs tailored to marginalised groups, in particular people of all abilities. Working across a range of mediums, Lea applies her visual arts, pedagogic and community development skills to design and facilitate short and long-term community arts workshops that cater to all abilities. She is employed as a community artist facilitator within local government and private organisations, as well as coordinating and facilitating a wide scope of creative programs. Creating and collaborating across a variety of mediums including fine arts, projection based light configurations, still/moving imagery, story-arts, print, murals, sculpture, dance, theatre, circus/inflatable/wearable arts & music, Lea works both as an independent arts practicioner, and also within a community arts context. She facilitating a wide variety of multi-arts workshops, and employs a wide range of techniques from which to develop whole arts ‘stories.’
In collaboration with South Australian wearable and inflatable artist Evelyn Roth, Lea is also the coordinator and core-facilitator of The Nylon Zoo VIC & NSW, an interactive story theatre that caters to the young and young at heart www.facebook.com/thenylonzoo. The Nylon Zoo is a magical interactive experience that features a fantastical (and very friendly) GIANT INFLATABLE SALMON, wild & whimsical animal costumes, dance, music-making, theatre and story time, featuring at festivals, events and institutions across Victoria and New South Wales. www.evelynrothoz.com
Lea is also the proprietor of ‘My Red Dress,’ an arts-based business platform from which she produces and sells a number of her own arts products, including short illustrated stories, paintings, still and moving imagery and artisanal condiments www.facebook.com/myreddress & www.iheartmydreddress.blogspot.com.au. Lea is also an active Craftisivst, reclaiming public spaces for interactive arts and random public acts of art- nesses, for example in her work on www.facebook.com/ iseemagicalcreatures.

Lea also actively creates, collects and captures love hearts for usage in public art installations, in small acts of kindness and for www.foundlovehearts.blogspot.com.au. Her magical creature and love heart art is part of a long-term project, The Wishing Tree, which focuses on everyday magic, plastic fantastic, craftivistic creativity, visual story and covert creativity. This information will now self destruct (into a million little rainbow-coloured love hearts)... <3