Brezinka Design Co.

Name: Brezinka Design Co.
Address: Nashville, TN, US
Telephone: 615.497.2549

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Brezinka Design Co.

An award-winning artist and illustrator based in Nashville.

07/17/2025

When our grief cannot be spoken, it falls into the shadow and re-arises in us as symptoms. So many of us are depressed, anxious, and lonely. We struggle with addictions and find ourselves moving at a breathless pace, trying to keep up with the machinery of culture. ― Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

ARTWORK: Jesus Wept: Collage, assemblage and repurposed materials on wood panel; 30 x 24 in.

07/12/2025

What a crew! 2025 School of the Art Institute of Chicago students.

What a privilege to share my gifts with this inspiring group.

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07/11/2025

Day 1 - Opening the Artistic Self at School of the Art Institute of Chicago with WOW!

What a privilege. We had an incredibly powerful day yesterday.

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07/10/2025

Made it!

Met up with my wounded healer crew, my team in Chicago. Each, on their own journey of wholeness. I have deep admiration for each of them.

Today, I’ll meet my students and begin sharing my story and technique of mixed media art and how I’ve used this practice to help me heal.

This work brings me alive. What better thing in life than to use my gifts to help another heal and find the light in their own eyes again!

My classroom? The prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago

I am incredibly grateful.

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

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07/09/2025

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. ― Thomas Merton

ARTWORK SHOWN HERE: Arrival, cut paper, collage and mixed media on wood panel. Created using dried flower petals and stems, sand, vintage book bindings, newsprint, acrylic paint and glue, 12” x 9” on wood panel.

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07/08/2025

I’m honored to be headed back to Chicago in partnership with to lead a new group of Veterans through my mixed media techniques at the renowned School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

What a thrill to teach at this legendary school of the arts!

I can’t wait to meet my new group of students!

ARTWORK: “Transformation: The Beauty and Mystery of Us” exploring themes of healing, personal stories, and the interconnectedness of individuals.

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07/07/2025

What a thrill! 12 years ago, I delivered my large-scale mixed media portrait of LINCOLN to the historic Ford’s and Museum in Washington, D.C. where it was on a 5-year loan for a temporary exhibition.

Did you see while it was there? Let me know here in the comments.

SHOWN HERE IN FIRST IMAGE: My son Zach and Ford’s Theatre and Museum curator, Tracey Avant upon delivery. What an honor and a thrill!

07/06/2025

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I’ll meet you there. – RUMI, 13th-century poet.

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07/05/2025

I wonder why we try so hard.

We try to fit in. We try to be successful. We try to be loved and liked. We try to do it right. What is right and who said so? What is it that causes us to get so caught up in the way things should be? Where does that come from?

At 56 years old, I ain’t got time for this kind of worry. I don’t know how much time I have left. I want to live well and not right. I want to lean in with gusto and follow my intuition. I want to feel alive and connected to myself, to others, and to the earth. I want to learn how to love myself better and love others right where they’re at. Not the way I think they “should be.” I want to practice detaching, surrender and loosening my grip on “the shoulds.”

Freedom is what I am after and it continues to rise in me and for that I am grateful.

Freedom of knowing that I am only a small piece to a much grander puzzle and I’m alive right now and at this moment and it is fu**in awesome!

Be open.
Love deeply.
Be sad.
Laugh out loud.
Savor it all!
LIVE and LOVE!

Thanks for reading.

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07/04/2025

As we wake on July 4th, 2025, the city of Kyiv is burning.

Putin launched the largest drone attack to date on Kyiv hours after a call between the US and Putin. God have mercy.

Art is sometimes troublesome to engage and perhaps our feelings of discomfort are inviting us into a larger conversation with ourselves.

My Great-Grandparents immigrated from Brzezinka, Poland. Brezinka (Brzezinka) is a village in southern Poland — site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau N**i death camp otherwise known as “Little Auschwitz” — a place of horrific war crimes.

As Ukrainian civilians seek refuge from atrocities at home, a vast majority of refugees have been welcomed by Poland. Given my lineal descent, this tragedy is particularly close to my heart. As Ukrainians continue to fight bravely for freedom and democracy under the leadership of their president, Volodymyr Zelensky, my intent is for this work to serve viewers as a conduit to process outrage and grief, and to express support for the Ukrainian resistance.

Tap link in bio to learn more.

07/03/2025

The Cellar Spider: The pathology of manipulating altruism

NEW editorial work for

One of six illustrations that accompany a thoughtful essay by Milton J. Friesen: Dangerous Beasts, Institutional Pathologies That Undermine The Common Good

07/01/2025

The Ouroboros: The pathology of conformity consuming creativity

NEW editorial work for

One of six illustrations that accompany a thoughtful essay by Milton J. Friesen: Dangerous Beasts, Institutional Pathologies That Undermine The Common Good

Collage, assemblage and repurposed materials on wood panels. Tap link in bio to see more.

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Nashville, TN

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615.497.2549

Website

http://www.waynebrezinka.com/

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