Exhibits

Now on view:
March 30, 2025 to June 30, 2025

Sacred Straw

The UHEC is proud to present for the first time in the United States, the exhibition "Sacred Straw", consisting of straw appliqué icons created by Myroslava Boikiv and a photo exhibit of Solom'yanky (straw decorated eggs) by Parania Sozanski. This exhibition is adapted from the 2023 exhibition presented by the Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Ontario Branch.

 

Myroslava Boikiv, of Kovalivka, Kolomyia district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, refers to straw as Nature's Gold. She uses natural dyes to color stalks of different cereal crops. After pressing and drying, these pieces are applied to a wooden board to create amazing works of art that glow in the light.
Also on view are photos of Solom'yanky, created by Parania Sozanski. Solom'yaky are eggs decorated with pieces of straw that create floral and geometric designs on the shell.

 

The UHEC Library is open 9 AM to 5 PM on weekdays, with limited special weekend hours and by appointment. Exhibition will be opened during the St. Thomas Pilgrimage on April 26 and 27, 2025. Visit and Directions. For more information email info@ukrhec.org or call (732) 356-0132.

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.

"Zemlia" by Bohdan Pevnyi (detail)

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.