About 5,000 miles away from home, Igor Velykyy keeps a close eye on the finishing touches on the art installations inside DION Art's East 9th Street showroom.
As DION Art CEO Ilya Palatnik explains, the company began in Ukraine in 2014, creating art installations, water features, fire features and light installations and has since grown to include offices in Cleveland.
According to Global Cleveland, an organization dedicated to welcoming and integrating people from around the world into the area, an estimated 5,000 Ukrainians and counting have resettled in Northeast Ohio since the start of the war. The pair had worked on opposite ends of the earth, focusing on projects for some of the world’s biggest stages.
"Even when cities are getting bombed left and right, they’re still putting money into things like that just because they want to show that this is affecting them, but it's not affecting them to the point where it's a dead stop," Palatnik said."Art is what brings people out of their home," Palatnik said.
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