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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ТРАВЕНЬ 2009 29 Awakening. Hand embroidered, cotton thread on vintage and embroidered linen. Photo by Mir Lada . Lada, who graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1965, has participated in nine solo and numerous group exhibitions in the United States and Canada. The Toronto - based artist’s work was included in nationally touring exhibitions, Art and Ethnicity from the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Quilt Project organized by the Women's Art Resource Centre, Toronto. On Saturday, March 21, the exhibit continued with Ukrainian - language seminars by Lubow Wolynetz, Tania Diakiw O’Neill, and Olga Basarab Kolodij. Each of the presenters reprised her respective lecture in English on the following day. The first seminar, presented by Lubow Wol y netz, l ibrarian and museum curator at the Ukrainian Museum and Library of Stamford, Connecticut, was entitled “Ukrain ian Rushnyk, The Guardian of Life.” The riveting story of the symbolism behind the art of embroidery was complemented by a slide presentation illu strating the lore and the evolution of embroidery. “Any woven cloth,” Ms. Wol ynetz noted, “was imbued with magic . . . the symbol itself becoming magic,” the colors carefully chosen to reflect some mystical belief. Ms. Wolynetz then described embroidery’s place in the customs and artifacts related to rites of passage — birth, childhood, puberty, marriage, old age, death. She cited, for example, the mother Ancestral Voices 1 . Paper, paint and cotton twine on hand embroidered vintage linen. Photo by Christine Zelinsky. whose embroidery was a means of translating her thoughts and wishes for her baby into something tangible and durable. An embroidered rushnyk presented by a young woman to a prospective groo m or his representatives was as good as a binding contract; after marriage, a ritual cloth was placed on the threshold of the house in which the couple would reside. The bride would walk through the doorway alone, the ritual cloth cleansing her and offerin g her protection in her new home. At death, a ritual cloth was placed in the coffin, a way “for angels to carry the spirit to the afterlife.” Branch 88 President Christine Shwed, artist Sophia Lada, and Sr. Dia Stasiuk, OSBM, first director of UHSC/Ma nor College
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