Exhibits

Now on view:

September 25, 2022 to April 30, 2023

Linocuts by Mykola Bondarenko

On display will be a selection from a series of over 70 prints created by Ukrainian artist Mykola Bondarenko in 1993. They are an artistic response to the Holodomor, the genocidal artificial famine of 1932- 1933 perpetuated by the Soviet government which resulted in the death of untold millions of Ukrainians. Most of the prints depict various plants and animals that people were forced to eat in order to survive. From an early age, Bondarenko was fascinated by stories of the past told by elders in his village, and the “recipes” in this “Cookbook” are based on the first-hand accounts of survivors.

Stay tuned for further details in early Fall 2022.

While the Center's new museum building is under construction, we are presenting exhibits in the Library Gallery.

This gallery occupies the location formerly used by the UOC of USA bookstore, and has been completely refurbished for use as a gallery, including the installation of museum-grade UV absorbing film on the windows to protect the displayed artifacts from sunlight damage.

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View UHEC's online exhibits

"Earth" by Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak (1992, mixed media)

Guest exhibition "Holodomor: A Remembrance"

This virtual exhibition assembled under the auspices of numerous Ukrainian American community, cultural, and arts organizations features the works of Ukrainian-American artist Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak.

Holodomor Art at the UHEC

The UHEC Patriarch Mstyslav Museum has in its permanent collection a number of artworks commemorating the genocidal artificial famine of 1932-33 known as the Holodomor. These works range from the small and subtle to the graphic and monumental, and are by artists both well-known and not so well-known.

Ukraine 1933: A Cookbook

A sampling of a series of 80 linocuts by Ukrainian artist Mykola Bondarenko (b. 1949) depicting the unbelievable “menu” that survivors of the Holodomor subsisted on.

The story behind "The Carol of the Bells"

How did a Ukrainian winter song arranged for chorus by Mykola Leontovych end up as the perennial American Christmas favorite "The Carol of the Bells"? The story involves an unlikely musical ensemble called the "Ukrainian National Chorus". Here we tell the story of the Chorus through archival materials from the collection of Fr. Mykola Kostets'kyi, who was a member of the Chorus in the 1920s.

Two post-war immigrant experiences

All of the post-World War II refugees who fled Ukraine in the mid 1940s ahead of the advancing Red Army had their tales of hardship and triumph. In this exhibit, we tell the stories of two similar, but at the same time very different refugee experiences.