Squeaky Wheel is presenting a special screening of a perennial Central European holiday classic animation "Strigonove Vianoce" (Christmas Wizard) which was illustrated by Olga Bajusova. This screening is held in conjunction with the current exhibition at Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington St.), which features illustrations, prints and animated sets by Olga Bajusova. Sets and stills from "Striganove Vianoce" will be on exhibit at WNYBAC for the duration of the show, from February 26 - April 10th.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Olga Bajusova is an award-winning illustrator of children’s books as well as a noted printmaker who has exhibited in Italy, Portugal, Romania, Canada, the United States and Japan. Born and educated in Slovakia, Ms. Bajusova and her husband and fellow artist Jozef Bajus are now residents of Buffalo, NY. The WNYBAC exhibition showcases Bajusova’s prolific children's book illustrations which evoke a fantastical world of faeries, creatures and landscapes with vibrant colors that are not fully captured in the over thirty children's books that have made her work iconic in her home country of Slovakia and beyond. She has worked with Slovak publishers “Buvik” and “Mlade Leta” as well as the “Budisin” publishing house in Germany. In 1997 Olga Bajusova received the Mlade Leta Publishing Prize and the prestigious Ludovit Fulla Award and was elected to the International Board of Books for Young People. Her etchings offer a different side of her work in that they feature parallel yet contrasting organic abstract landscapes as monochromatic prints with subtle detail and bold emotional gestures.

A special edition restrike of Bajusova’s etching will be printed at the WNY Book Arts Center’s community printshop and offered for sale exclusively during the exhibition at WNYBAC from Feb. 26 - April 10.

For more info about the WNY Book Arts Center, visit http://www.wnybookarts.org/.