Ukrainian Cultural Initiative (nonprofit 501(c)(3) ) has following goals:
- informing American audience about Ukrainian culture
- supporting artists living and working in Ukraine
- providing financial help to children's art schools in Ukraine
- supporting art therapy for Ukrainian Veterans
We are proud to share with you that through our exhibitions of contemporary Ukrainian art in and other events, many artworks
found their loving home in USA. Those are marked as
"in a private collection, USA" under each Artist's pages.
Welcome!
For Lorton event attendees: please check the available art in the sliding galleries below and send us an email if you are interested in purchasing. All featured artists live and work in Ukraine now and need our help, so Ukrainian children and Veterans. Please add "Lorton event" in the subject line of the email. Here is our email address: ukraine.init4usa@gmail.com
Tetiana Kolechko, Guardian Angel
hot enamel on copper, 2020
Olha Pilyuhina, The Tree of Life. Sunflower,
58 x 34 in, handwoven natural-wool tapestry, 2021
(don't need a frame, prepared to be hung on the wall)
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September 26, 2023
Our first organized exhibition "Affirmation of Life. Art from today’s Ukraine" (September'2023) was initiated by the community of The First Parish in Bedford (MA) and the Ukrainian Cultural Initiative with support from the Bedford Cultural District Partnership.
When planning our exhibition, we envisioned creating a collection for American viewers who have actively supported Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. We aimed to gather in one space such works of art that could harmoniously fit into every interior or become its special emphasis. We call it "a reflection of the Ukrainian style". This style will be experienced and become apparent to exhibition guests, as they get acquainted with work by Ukrainian artists. Ukrainian visitors will find themselves in the atmosphere of a familiar world and the native beauty of their country.
Moreover, our challenge was to cover as many artistic trends as possible and to present them with gratefulness to the United States of America. The collection includes
enamels on copper by Tetiana and Serhiy Kolechko, oil paintings by Oleksiy Bednoshey, Borys Eghiazaryan, and Nadiya Martynenko, gouaches by Lyubov Minenko,
oil pastels by Olha Omelchyshyna, Petrykivka paintings by Oksana Dovban,
“vytynanky” by Nataliya Huliayeva-Smahlo,
and tapestries by Olha Pilyuhina.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude
to Ellen Scheiner, Doris Smith and Christine Wojnar
from The Gallery@First Parish in Bedford for reaching out to us to organize the exhibition. With gratitude, we would like to emphasize that the selection of works of art and the design of the catalog were made possible with the support of the members of the renowned family of artists Seda Baroyants and Setrak Baroyants.
The catalog contains a photographic retrospective of each artist’s work, texts by art historians, and reflections on art by Dr. Nataliya Proskura.
Together to Victory!
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