Veronika Rose is a professional artist, scenic painter, Festival installation artist, art director and art facilitator.
Bio
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Veronika Rose is a visionary artist, and Marine Corps Veteran hailing from Orlando, FL. She served two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as a public affairs and broadcast/print combat journalist with the First Marine Division in Kuwait and Iraq.
After being diagnosed with PTSD upon her return to the US, Veronika embarked on a journey of self-discovery and healing, seeking alternative therapies to those provided by the Veteran Administration Hospital. Painting soon became her active meditation, therapy, and spiritual practice. Prior to her career as an artist, Veronika was a nurse and later became the Healing Arts Director for the non-profit "Heroes of Freedom" from 2013-16. The program, held at the Orlando Veterans Hospital, offered alternative therapeutic classes such as painting, poetry, qigong, and yoga to veterans suffering from PTSD and addiction. In 2009 she also began the path of the Red Road, studying various healing modalities, and leading her to became a Moon dancer, vision quester, SunDance cedar keeper, Chanupa carrier, and entheogenic integration coach. She is also sahumadora and Temazcalera while serving on the Moon Dance council for XiuhOzeloMetztli. In 2016, and 2023 Veronika studied painting with renowned visionary artists Alex and Allyson Grey. She continued her education in classical oil techniques and figure painting with Oleg Korolov at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art in 2018, and studied acrylics with Autumn Skye Morrison. Today, Veronika travels the world as a freelance artist and Art Director, while teaching classes, facilitating visionary art psychedelic integration classes, painting live at festivals and events, holding art ceremonies, creating artwork for large scale art installations, scenic and theming work and organizing retreats for veterans, artists, and women. She is also the co-founder of Visionary Veterans, a 501c-3 focusing on holistic retreats and resources for veterans. Veronika is also a certified Psycho-spiritual, psychedelic Integration coach, specializing in Psychedelic integration visionary art workshops. Veronika has experience with the following, Art in Session, Lost Lands Festival, Electric Forest, Unifier Festival, COSM, Hulaween and Okeechobee festivals, Art Basel Miami, Disney, Universal Studios, Military Make Over, Hagrids’ Motorcycle Adventure ride, Misfit toys. |
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Veronika Rose (U.S. Marine) meets local women inside their home in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, 2004.