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30 OUR LIFE • May 2026 THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM 222E6NYC A Living Canvas: The Ukrainian Museum at 50 May 16 – August 30, 2026 The Ukrainian Museum’s 50th anniversary signifies both a milestone and a threshold. As the Muse- um marks half a century of collecting, preserving, and interpreting Ukrainian art and culture in New York, it is presenting the exhibition A Living Canvas ( Живе Полотн о), an apt description of the Muse- um’s role within the community: a gathering point for a collection that grows, changes, and deepens with each generation. In lieu of a conventional thematic or chronologi - cal account of Ukraine’s cultural heritage, A Living Canvas is organized around the formal threads — Color, Form, Geometry, Figuration, Texture, Line, and Ornamentation — that weave the fine arts with the decorative art of textiles, costume, and folk art across centuries and geographies. This organization reflects something essential about Ukrainian art: that the boundary between the vil - lage workshop and the artist’s studio was always fluid and mutually beneficial. The connections be- tween the woven kilim and the painted canvas, the embroidered rushnyk (ritual cloth) and the modernist composition are materially tangible by sharing the same visual language. A Living Canvas makes visible their common qualities. While presenting highlights from the permanent collection, the exhibition also traces the profound impact the Museum has had on artistic innovation, preservation, and interpretation of Ukrainian herit - age over the past 50 years. At its heart are extraor - dinary works from the permanent collection — fine arts, kilims, rushnyky , folk art, historic costumes — alongside the Museum’s archival photographs, ear - ly institutional documents, and donor stories from its founding organization, the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. A Living Canvas is curated by Dr. Myroslava M. Mudrak, Professor Emerita of Art History at The Ohio State University, whose scholarship has defined the critical frameworks through which Ukrainian modern- ism is understood; Lubow Wolynetz, the Museum’s longtime Folk Art Curator, whose deep knowledge of the collection’s textile and decorative holdings is un- paralleled; Maria Shust, former long-serving Director, under whose leadership the Museum’s foundational identity was formed; and Maria Rewakowicz, current Head of Collections, whose stewardship continues the Museum’s mission of preservation and expansion of the permanent collection. Inlaid Casket. Hutsul region, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, western Ukraine, 1900s–1920s. Julian Kolesar (1927–1992), First Lady. 1968, oil on can- vas, 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm). Gift of Marta Ozarkiw. UM 201765.
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