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17 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Грудень 2025 Lisa McDonald – Casper, Wyoming My baba, Malania Hontaryk, was a master korovai baker (korovainytsia) in Edmon - ton. She continued baking korovai, a traditional wedding bread, into her 90s. The baton was passed to me, and upon moving to the U.S., I started an educational and business website, Korovai.com, to offer personal korovai baking and shipping servic- es. In my first year, 2002, I baked 10 korovai that were shipped all over the U.S. Eight years later, I started a Canadian franchise, and in 2024, I baked 55 wedding breads. Keeping our heritage and culture alive through baking our traditional breads is one of my passions. As a teacher, I love to educate, and as a Ukrainian, I love to educate people about things Ukrainian. My baba and mama were prolific pysankarky in Edmonton. Since 2002, I have been holding pysanka classes in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. In 2020, I was featured in the Wyoming Arts Council Artscapes magazine showcasing some of my mother’s and baba’s pysanky. In 2022, when the war started, we raised over $12,000 to help with the war effort. Through Ukraine Global Scholars, I have mentored four lovely Ukrainian teenagers through the college application process. My family also wel- comed Sasha, my first mentee, to our home as a guest. This photo was taken at Baltimore’s National Aquarium during one visit. I was inspired to help students by my parents, Jacob and Valentina, who set up the Jacob and Valentina Hursky Ukrainian Graduate Fellowship – College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Alexandra Hursky – Ellicott City, Maryland Growing up in a suburb of Syracuse, NY, I often encountered people who had never heard of Ukraine. It was important for me to make them aware of the country I was so proud of, even though I had never been there myself. My sister Tanya and I accompanied a group of teenage Ukrainian singers on the bandura. We performed at church and civic events, such as this Captive Nations rally held at a CNY college in 1979. Larysa Martyniuk – Colorado Springs, Colorado This porcelain mask “Motanka” is included in the exhibit Masks 2025 at the Museum of Fine Art in Fort Collins, Colorado. As an artist, I created a visual statement that incorporates and emphasizes Ukraine’s deep cultur - al roots. The Motanka doll has resurfaced as a symbol of cultural resist - ance and renewal in Ukraine. I incorporated the symbolic essence of these ancient talismans into my Motanka, displayed with a personal statement alongside it. I hope that viewers of the exhibit have a deeper understanding of Ukraine’s cultural roots dating back 5,000 years to the Trypillian Culture, which thrived in the Chernihiv region.
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