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Pottery exhibit - final day to view
Pottery Traditions and Transplanted Motifs:
Ceramics from Ukraine and their North American Legacy
Spanning centuries and continents, the ceramics exhibition at Musée Ukraina Museum represents a celebration of this decorative and applied art form. Read [More] to learn about this exhibit.
Featured are earthenware vessels brought to Western Canada by the first Ukrainian immigrants that were later donated to our museum.
Hutsulian pottery from Kosiv and Pistyn areas in Ukraine, as well as other hand painted ceramics on display, are decorated with popular floral and animal motifs that influenced local North American artisans whose work is also included in the exhibition. Artists represented in this exhibition include Pavlyna Tsvilyk, Aka Perejma, Luba Perchyshyn, Roman Kowal and Irene Shumsky-Moroz.
In 2019 the tradition of Kosiv painted ceramics was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Hutsul ceramics are remarkable for their contrast of greens, golds and browns in free brushstrokes which imbue the pictorial decorations with lightness and spontaneity.
Especially noteworthy is the inaugural inclusion of ceramics from the Toronto UCWLC Museum collection, the entirety of which was recently transferred to Musée Ukraina Museum, helping us continue our mandate of preserving and exhibiting these valuable cultural artifacts.
We recognize with gratitude the individual collectors who donated these artifacts and look forward to exhibiting these valuable artistic and cultural contributions for our online communities and future visitors to Musée Ukraina Museum.
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