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NEW YORK TIMES ON THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM Among the reporters present at the press conference held by the Ukrainian Museum on September 30, 1976, were two representatives from the New York Times. Their comments about the Ukrainian Museum appeared In a small article In the October 5, 1976 edition of the New York Times. We are reprinting It In full: UKRAINIAN MUSEUM, DEVOTED TO FOLK ART, OPENS ON 2d AVE. b y Rita R eif The Ukrainian Museum, New York's newest showcase for folk art, opened Sunday on two floors of an imagina tively remodeled tenement at 203 Sec ond Avenue (at 13th Street). The museum, which is sponsored by the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Inc., has a collection of about 800 artifacts. Most of these crafts date to the late 19th or early 20th century and were assembled by the league in the Ukraine about 35 years ago. Since then, selections of the textiles, clothing, inlaid wood boxes, metal jewelry and and pipes and earthenware bowls, plates and candlesticks have been exhibited in a traveling show in many parts of this country. Now the ethnic designs have a per manent home here. Although the open ing show is modest, including about 65 selections, it covers virtually all of the crafts represented in the collection. As might be expected, weaving and embroidery selections are the most dis tinguished of the crafts on view. For the costumes of the Ukraine—the color- splashed aprons, the balloon-sleeved high-necked shirts, the geometric and floral-patterned waist bands and shawls —are as robust as the folk dances of that area. Each design selected was re searched by Oksana Irene Grabowicz, a student of ethnology and social anthropology who assembled the show. The catalogue pinpoints the regions where the materials were crafted and identifies the skills involved. But absent from the labels and catalogue descriptions are fuller explanations of why, for instance, someone devised in the 1920’s a fire-engine-red bridal wreath embellished with Lincoln-pennylike de corations. Miss Grabowicz explained to a visitor last week that 50 years ago the Ukrainians lionized and copied American souvenirs—even the common penny. Those who are encountering Ukrainian folk art for the first time have some surprises in store, not the least of which is the fact that many designs re semble crafts from Turkey, Greece, Rumania and even Mexico, something that is not explained in the inaugural exhibition. The museum is open Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 P.M. to 5 and Fridays until 7 P.M Admission is $1 for all except children through the age of 12, who are admitted free. ERRORS AND OMMISSIONS Our Life #9 of October, 1976, p. 21 Chronicle of Br. 72 NAMES M ISSPELLED: "Georgia Jean Tisanick Euglot" should be Georgia Jean Flsanlck-Englot Ph.D. OMMISSIONS: Name of Ms. Olga Liteplo was inadvertently omitted in the report. She is a member of Br. 72 and holds the post of Hospitality Chairman in the N.Y. Regional council. Included in her list of eighteen legal inequities endured by women was the denial of the right of women to vote. This was the first time women’s suffrage was demanded formally. Elizabeth Stanton and her colleague Susan B. Anthony devoted more than fifty years of their life seeking equality for men and women before the law. They lived to see Wyoming become the first state in the Union to give women the franchise. Wyoming became a state in 1890 having adopted woman suffrage in 1869 when Susan B. Anthony proposed a National Woman- Suffrage Amendment. After the death of Susan B. Anthony the suffrage campaign was carried on by Carrie Chapman Cott, chairman of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the most powerful political leader the women’s movement had at the time. The efforts of Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Cott and many others culminated in the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote by both Houses of Congress in 1919. During this same period of history Clara Barton was given the name ’’the Angel of the Battlefield” of the American Civil War. Her example of caring for the wounded of both armies in hospitals and on battlefields inspired others to help the suffering as well. In 1869 Miss Barton heard of the International Red Cross while visiting in Switzerland. She participated in its work during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71 and became convinced that America needed an organization for administering disaster relief. With a group of friends she formed the American Association of the Red Cross in Washington D. C. in 1882. For the next twenty-two years Clara Barton was president of the American Red Cross which rendered its services to the armed forces and to the victims of natural disasters. Another outstanding American humanitarian, Jane Addams, devoted her life to ’’improving the world’s way of living”. As settlement houses sprang up in some of the larger cities of the nation, Jane Addams opened the doors of Hull House in the tenement district of Chicago in 1889. This famous institution was a social, charitable and educational center as well as the home of its resident director. It provided social services to 2000 people daily especially to the many immigrants who 24 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ЛИСТОПАД 1976 Necklace and tw o c ru c ifix pendants. M etalw ork. H u ts u l region. U kra inian Museum. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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