Luba Proger has a background and education in fine arts, graphic design, and photography. Upon moving to the United States, Luba continued her studies and earned a degree in photography and graphic design from the Pratt Institute, NYC.
Luba Proger has been making photographs for over a decade. In the past five years she got involved in curatorial work, where she conceived, and developed a number of arts, photography and theater projects. She currently resides and works in New York City.
In 2008 Luba Proger received a Mini-Grant from COJECO to realize a photography installation 60 Reflections. The installation celebrates the 60th year of Israel's independence and the profound influence that Israel has had on so many Russian-speaking Jews.
Twenty-seven individuals contributed sixty images that together present a photographic panorama of how each one sees and celebrates Israel, and finds common bonds and a shared commitment to the Jewish state on the 60th anniversary of its birth.
Born and raised in Odessa, Ukraine, Eugene Klig immigrated to the US at the tender age of 15. After graduating high school and obtaining an engineering degree from StonyBrookUniversity, Eugene worked for a telecommunication company, until a sudden change of heart set him on the journey of non-profit work in the Russian-Jewish community. Such drastic change came about with the help of a CWW minigrant project, as it provided him with an opportunity to explore possibilities in this line of work prior to fully committing to it. Eugene’s MiniGrant is the KinoFERMA film festival designed to showcase works of Russian-Jewish filmmakers and animators residing in United States. The first screenings took place in New York City and were followed by screenings in San Francisco and Toronto. Currently, the festival is accepting works for its 2009 screening.
Veronica Price dabbles in many things. She is an entrepreneur who owns a photography company and designs innovative jewelry, while working as a marketing expert for a consulting firm that develop technology startups in NYC. She holds a degree in Psychobiology from BinghamtonUniversity.
Veronica was born in Kharkov and raised in KhmelnitskyUkraine. She immigrated to the US during the early 1988 wave and settled in Brooklyn with her family where she found herself as the only Russian immigrant in a junior high school class full of tough Italian-American kids. Veronica reconnected with her immigrant roots in high school and college inside a group of diverse and friendly nerds, one that may only be found in NY, a welcoming immigrant capital. Veronica has a profound love of New York City which led her to organize a day long, 150 participant strong scavenger hunt of the historic Lower East Side in the Fall of 2008 (We|Come to America) as the first COJECO Center Without Walls grant project. Veronica has taken part in and chaired many Russian-Jewish initiatives in NYC and looks forward to helping create stronger identities in creative ways.
