Olga Mezhibovskaya is an educator, designer, and interdisciplinary artist. She received her BA in Choir Conducting in 1977 and her MA in Musicology in 1984, both from Saratov Conservatory of Music in Russia. Olga taught music theory, music history, piano, and solfeggio, and for several years, was a soprano singer in the Polyansky choir at Moscow Conservatory. Upon immigrating to the United States, Olga changed her career and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a BFA in Graphic Design in 1997. She worked as a book designer for St. Martin's Press, Random House and Times Books before continuing her teaching career, now as a designer, at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn where she was a tenured Assistant Professor. Olga finished her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College in Vermont in 2002 and had been an Instructor at the School of Visual Arts for nearly two decades. She taught Basic Typography, Design with Type, Interdisciplinary Design, and Senior Interdisciplinary Design Portfolio. Olga teaches now Image and Typography and Advance Typography at the Marymount Manhattan College. She often collaborates with musicians, dancers, playwrights, poets, fashion designers, and actors. As an educator Olga inspires her students to experiment and develop an open-minded perception of what the possibilities of graphic design can be.