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15 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Березень-Квітень 2023 Camilla Mellander, Consul General of Sweden in New York. Sofika Zielyk is an artist and ethnographer with a degree in Art History from New York University. A native New Yorker, she began making pysanky and ceramics when she was six. She has exhibited her work extensively, notably at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History, and Museum of Arts and Design, as well as numerous other venues in New York, Washington, DC, Paris, and Rome. In 1992, she became the first American of Ukrainian descent to exhibit her work in her ancestral homeland, at the Taras Shevchenko museums in Kaniv and Kyiv, and in 2014–2015 she spent eight months in Kyiv as a Fulbright Scholar studying the influence of folk art on Ukrainian fine artists. Her work has been featured in many publications, including her own The Art of the Pysanka (1993). When russia launched its full-fledged invasion in February 2022, Sofika quickly engaged in cultural diplomacy, adopting the pysanka tradition as her weapon of choice against the evil that is russia’s war on Ukraine and using her artistic talent and ethnographic experience to support Ukraine. She has been interviewed by CNN, Time magazine, The Washington Post , NPR’s All Things Considered , and many local New York TV stations. Many notable individuals have contributed pysanky to the project, among them: Many of the contributed pysanky have been accompanied by heartwarming notes ... New York Governor Kathy Hochul (with her husband, William J. Hochul Jr., and Sofika Zielyk). U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Peter Gelb, General Manager, Metropolitan Opera House, and Keri- Lynn Wilson, Conductor, Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra. DONATE YOUR PYSANKA Send your empty, traditionally decorated pysanka to: The Pysanka Project c/o Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075
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