Helena Domenic

Helena Domenic is an accomplished mixed media artist who has shown her work in Philadelphia, New York, across the United States and in Germany, Egypt, and South Africa. Helena was born in Vicenza, Italy where she was exposed to great works of art from a very early age. After that auspicious beginning, her family moved to Delaware, where Helena began a lifelong love for the Brandywine River and the Golden Age of Children’s Illustration.

She holds a BFA from Kutztown University, an MA in Art Education from The University of the Arts, and an MFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. She recently retired from her position as an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Kutztown, she was an Associate Professor of Art History and Studio Art at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania for eighteen years. Helena is the author and illustrator of An Illuminated Guide to Wicca and The Fellowship of the Fool book and tarot deck.

Helena suffered a severe spinal column injury in June of 2024 that completed upended her life and made her decide to focus even more energy on her art than before. Her injury required spinal fusion on eleven of her vertebrae. Her work, always steeped in mythology and stories, has become more personal and about her physical, emotional, and spiritual journey since the injury.

Helena lectures regularly at conferences about art and the sacred, painting, and installation at both academic and healing arts venues. Her art is influenced by artists such as Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Jimoh Biramoe, El Anatsui, Bettye and Alison Saar, and Agnes Pelton. Helena offers classes in various kinds of art and spiritual studies from her studio in Phoenixville, PA, where she works to create an environment of community and creativity.