Nantahala Issue 2:2 Mark Olencki

Nantahala Issue 2:2
Mark Olencki

Mark Olencki is president of Olencki Graphics, Inc., a 25-year-old commercial photo/graphics digital design firm in Spartanburg, South Carolina. His commercial work has appeared in numerous annual reports, books, magazines, newspapers, and specialty business publications in the Southeast. Mark graduated magna cum laude from Wofford College in studio art and lectured in studio arts at the college from 1977-79. He has exhibited his award-winning fine arts photography in juried competitions and one-man/group shows throughout the region. His photographs are included in the permanent collection of the State of South Carolina, as well as the private collections of many corporations and individuals. His graphic designs and photography have been featured in all sixteen books of the Hub City Writers Project and two books produced by the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce. In 2000, he was selected by the Arts Partnership to be one of three photographers to participate in an arts exchange program with Spartanburg's sister city, Winterthur, Switzerland. A native of Newark, New Jersey, Mark resides with his wife, Diana, their ten year old son, Weston, and two cats and two dogs in a 1911 Arts and Craft bungalow in historic Hampton Heights, Spartanburg's oldest downtown neighborhood.