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museums, folk holidays, concerts, during conventions of RUKH, Shevchenko Society, etc. No one visited ,the Museum of Folk Architecture and Art as often as Ivan Honchar did. In fact, he was one of the initiators of the Association to Safeguard Relics of History and Culture, and also our museum. Unfortunately, not many people know about this since later on he was distanced from actively participating in the work of the Association. Almost until his death Ivan Makarovych worked, organizing his album of the kozak era in history, rushing with this project since he may have felt his near end. He also had a diary which he continued from his youth. A few days before his death when I visited him in the hos pital he carefully listened to my tales of my expedition in Zakarpattia, asked if the choir ’’Homin” was still active, and on a chair was his diary with the last entry dated June 2, 1993. On June 18, 1993 Ivan Honchar was gone. He is buried in the Bajkovyj cemetery near Ivan Svitlychny, Ivan Mykolajczuk. Three great Ivans, great sons of Ukraine, are buried here. May memories of them last forever! It is our great responsibility to realize his dream — to organize his museum the way he hoped it to be —this will be a unique relic of our culture and our national spirit for all eternity. OXANA NAROZNIAK — A REMARKABLE UKRAINIAN SCULPTOR FROM BRAZIL “In sculpture you have to have unity — it’s like music." HALYNA KUZYSZYN Oxana Narozniak’s bronze masks. Photo courtesy Oxana Narozniak. Oxana Narozniak is no stranger to New York — over the years her bronze sculptures have been featured at a number of well-known galleries, and the Ukrainian Institute of America. From October 4 through 22, 1993, five of her sculptures were exhibited at the Japan Air lines Gallery on Fifth Avenue, along with the contem porary oil paintings of a fellow artist, Giuseppe Irlandini. Ms. Narozniak was born in Germany and was raised in a small village near Parana, Brazil. She, her two brothers and her parents spoke only Ukrainian at home in order to preserve their sense of Ukrainian identity. They were the only Ukrainian family in that village, and only at the age of 16 did she meet other Ukrainians in Curitiba. At 19, she came to America to study art. Her studies took her to various schools in New York, Michigan and Hawaii. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wayne State University in 1972. Since then she has devoted her time to creating bronze sculptures which she exhibits in the United States and Brazil. Bronze, according to Ms. Narozniak, is a material she likes to work with because of its lasting quality. The bronze sculptures are somewhat vulnera ble, but Ms. Narozniak feels “aren’t we all vulnerable?” She herself does not do the actual pouring of the bronze, but only directs the process, doing any retouch ing herself, so that she can control the final appearance of the piece. “Every sculpture has to be exactly to the way I want it; I am very particular about this.” Ms. Narozniak knows the insides of the art world and is considered an eminent sculptor in Brazil as well as in the United States. Her sculptures were exhibited in many well-known art galleries in Brazil, the most presti gious being the Museum of Art in Sao Paulo. Her craft requires much time and financial backing. There are still many galleries where she would like to have sculptures exhibited, but galleries want to be sure that the works will sell, otherwise they are not willing to exhibit an artist’s works, even a very talented one. She is known in Brazil only as Oxana and has an impressive portfolio of her early and recent works, as well as numerous articles and reviews about her sculp tures. Most of the articles are in Portuguese, some are in English, Ukrainian and Japanese. 20 ’’НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ГРУДЕНЬ 1993 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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