Ray Bartkus is an artist-illustrator with over 23 years of experience in editorial illustration. His works appeared regularly on the covers and pages of many national and international publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Harper’s, Billboard, The Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The New Republic, Smart Money, The Fortune, and Courrier International. His illustrations received numerous awards by the Society of Publication Designers, the Society of Newspaper Designers and the Society of Illustrators. A native of Lithuania, he earned a master’s degree from Vilnius Art Academy in printmaking. Last year he had high profile exhibitions in Salle des Pas Perdus at the UN in Geneva, at Neon Gallery, at the Wroclaw Academy of Arts in Wroclaw and at Titanikas Gallery at the Vilnius Art Academy.