Polina Isurin is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work unfolds across painting, installation, video, writing, and mixed media, bridging personal and collective realms of memory, identity, and cultural translation. Additionally, Polina has been teaching visual art courses to middle, high school, and college-level students since 2012. She is currently an Ohio Teaching Artist through the Ohio Arts Council, and is both committed and interested in how creative and pedagogical practices can coexist.