WORKSHOP WITH BOZENA HRYCYNA

Bozena is excited to offer an introduction to the world of Ukrainian embroidery, in this Ukrainian Talisman workshop. Join her at the Museum for an evening embroidery workshop dedicated to Ukrainian embroidery, and the Great Goddess - Mother, Life.

The month of May is dedicated to Mother Mary, or we can think of Mother Earth, as all of earth is blooming and bearing life in this part of the world! The Great Goddess, Creatrix of Life, Berehynia, is depicted on ancient textiles and paintings as a figure with upstretched arms, or later, as a stylized Tree of Life, or Flowering Branch. This symbol is embroidered on many ritual towels- rushnyky, and considered a protective oberih (talisman).

AGES:  12+

$50 including supplies

INSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH

Bozena Hrycyna is director of FOLK CAMP, an organisation connecting people with the folk arts, crafts, music, and land based traditions of Eastern Europe in the Canadian context. As co-founder of the Kosa Kolektiv, Bozena has collaborated with many talented and skilled artists, musicians, and community organisations in Ontario (and across Canada) to promote the richness of Ukrainian and Eastern European cultures, and to facilitate meaningful connections for people (cross-culturally and within their own lineage).  Bozena is an amateur singer of traditional village songs, embroiderer, pysanka maker, weaver of threads and grasses, and textile craftsperson… actively learning and sharing these artforms from her Ukrainian/Ruthenian heritage.  She has taken workshops and travelled extensively in pursuit of deeper understandings of these and other folkways, and apprenticed to the land, spending the last six years on a homestead near Wilno, Ontario. She currently divides her time between the Ottawa Valley, and southern Ontario.

This workshop is part of the programming series for our current exhibition Making a Museum