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16 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, БЕРЕЗЕНЬ 2017 . Our Life Cover Artist Painter, graphic artist, muralist, and civic and political activist Alla Oleksandrivna Horska (1929– 1970) was born in Yalta, but spent her childhood in Leningrad. After her family moved to Kyiv in 1943, she studied with V. Bondarenko at the Republican Art School; in 1954, she graduated from the Kyiv Art Insti- tute. She is the creator of paintings entitled Prypiat. Parom (Prypiat. Ferry) Abetka (The Alphabet), Khlib (Bread), as well as the designer of stage sets for Nizh u sontsi (Knife in the Sun) based on a poem by Ivan Drach, Mykola Kulish’s Otak zahynuv Huska (That’s How Huska Perished), and Mykhailo Stelmakh’s Pravda i kryvda (Truth and Injustice), which were ready for staging but were banned. In 1964, Alla Horska collaborated with Opanas Zalyvakha, Halyna Zubchenko, Liudmyla Semykina, and Halyna Sevruk on a stained-glass panel called Shevchenko. Matir (Shevchenko. Mother) for the lobby of the Red Building of Kyiv’s Taras Shevchenko University. The panel was destroyed on orders of the Communist party authori- ties, and Alla Horska was expelled from the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Horska’s works were grounded in the traditions of the Kyiv academic school, folk art, and the Ukrainian avant-garde of the 1920s. An active member of the Ukrainian national-democratic movement of the 1960s, she was one of the founders of the Club of Creative Youth “Contemporary” in Kyiv, a pivotal phenomenon in the Ukrainian “Sixtiers” movement (“shestidesiatnyky”) of opposition to the Soviet re- gime. In the 1960s, Alla Horska produced a gallery of linocut and graphic portraits of Borys Antonenko- Davydovych, Vasyl Symonenko, Ivan Svitlychny, and Yevhen Sverstiuk, as well as a new treatment of the portraits of Taras Shevchenko and Oleksandr Dovzhenko, using graphic art techniques. A leading members of the dissident movement, Alla Horska, together with Vasyl Symonenko and Les Taniuk, found the burial places of people executed by the NKVD under Stalin in Bykivnia and the Lukianivskyi and Vasylkivskyi cemeteries near Kyiv. She provided assistance to political prisoners and members of their families. In 1968, after she signed the “Protest of 139 Citizens” against the wave of arrests of dissidents, she was expelled from the Artists’ Union for the second time. In November 1970, Alla Horska was murdered in the city of Vasylkiv in Kyiv Oblast. Her artistic legacy consists of dozens of monumental and easel works, many graphic works and sketches. Celebrating a Life (again). The May 2016 issue of Our Life included an article honoring Teklya Husiak, a long-time member of UN- WLA Branch 72, on the occasion of her 100th birthday. Penned by Mrs. Husiak’s daughter-in-law Carole, the article paid loving tribute to a resilient and strong woman who had endured and survived war, dis- placement, tyranny, separation from loved ones, and other life vicissitudes with stoic strength and com- posure. Unfortunately, an error was made as the editors were compiling the year-end index of materials published in OL for 2016: the story was erroneously listed under “Obituaries” when it should have ap- peared under the last item in the index, “Women in Our World.” I learned of this egregious error in January of this year, via a phone call from Nadia Liteplo (a member of UNWLA Branch 30) who has known Mrs. Husiak for many years and who let me know in no uncertain terms that Mrs. Husiak is alive and well and continues to be an asset to the UNWLA and a dear friend to many. Nadia provided me with the phone number of Mrs. Husiak’s son whom I called and who graciously accepted my apology to the entire family and approved my decision to correct the error in this month’s issue of OL, noting that his mother reads every issue “vid doshky do doshky” (from cover to cover). So I end with the hope that she sees this brief message and that my “senior moment” is forgiven. - tsc ___________________________________________________________ Reminder from Editors. During May we celebrate our mothers. Each of us has (or had) one and has a unique story to tell about her. In last month’s issue you were invited to send short (one or two paragraph) story on the following theme: The Most Valuable Lesson My Mother Taught Me. Please type your story in a Word document and submit via email to unwlaourlife@gmail.com. Put your name and “MOM story” in the subject line and include a telephone number where you can be reached. We will print the most inter- esting/unique stories in the May issue. Deadline is April 5.
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