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20 OUR LIFE • September-October 2025 THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM 222E6NYC The Wreath: A Century of Ukrainian Women Beyond the Ocean Through January 18, 2026 The Wreath honors the 100th anniversary of the UNWLA and the contributions of its members in the global arena of diplomacy. Looking back on the evolution of the Ukrainian feminist tradi - tion, the exhibition’s title weaves in several historic references. Pershyi Vinok (The First Wreath) is the milestone feminist alma- nac that in 1887 gathered texts by women from two Ukrainian communities living under Habsburg and Czarist rule. Decades later, UNWLA president Olena Lototsky in Jersey City wrote a speech for the 1934 International Congress of Ukrainian Women in Stanyslaviv titled “The Duties of Ukrainian Women Beyond the Ocean.” Steadily evolving in its sense of cultural kinship and po - litical responsibility, since 1925 the UNWLA has navigated waves of migration and historic disruptions, proving, in Dr. Martha Kichorowska Kebalo’s words, how “feminist sensibility can coexist with long-distance nationalism.” Like the unbroken circle of a wreath, the artworks in this exhi - bition, curated by Lilia Kudelia, remind us about the important causes UNWLA members have connected around throughout the past century. The works of many of the female artists in the show have been featured in Our Life over the decades, while other arti- facts come directly from the collection assembled by the UNWLA in the 1930s that eventually became the foundation for The Ukrainian Museum (see sidebar). Individual artistic expressions resonate with the collective goals championed by the UNWLA to support the Ukrainian nation through its political turmoils. Artworks by Halyna Mazepa and Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak emo- tively remind visitors about the UNWLA’s early humanitarian aid and emergency relief campaigns, including the support provided by the organization to those who suffered through hurricanes and flooding in the Carpathians in 1927. Still lifes by Iryna Ho- motiuk-Zielyk and Chrystya Olenska evoke decades of Holodomor awareness work by UNWLA members. The organization’s fight for human rights extends to its tena- cious efforts to develop a transnational activist community with female dissidents and the wives of political prisoners in Ukraine during the Soviet period. In The Wreath , paintings by Olena Kul - chytska, Alla Johansen, and Sophie Zarycka whisper with the voic - es of Olha Horyn, Oksana Meshko, Irena Senyk, Nadia Svitlychna, Nina Strokata, and Raisa Rudenko, whose correspondence can be viewed in the archival section of the exhibition.
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