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As Russian missiles fall, a Michigan native is racing against time to save priceless pieces of Ukrainian culture. It's called "Red-Listing," when people assemble items in museums and churches that need to be preserved.
On July 7, 2022, the Ukrainian American Archives and Museum and the Detroit Branch of the Shevechenko Scientific Society presented a talk by Yuri Yanchyshyn on “Ukrainian Culture at Risk - Again, A Conservator’s Perspective.” This presentation addressed the recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and is prefaced with an overview of the destruction of 20c Ukrainian culture, highlighting the iconostasis in the 1930’s, the Jewish synagogues during WWII, and the primarily Polish Roman Catholic polychrome sculptures after WWII. Images not widely known were shown, such as from the Taranushenko archives, currently in the Vernadsky Library in Kyiv.
https://www.ukrainianmuseumdetroit.org
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For 75 years, the Fulbright Program has given hundreds of thousands of passionate and accomplished students, scholars, artists, and professionals of all backgrounds and fields the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to complex global challenges. To mark the celebration of this momentous occasion, program alumni shared their vision and their Fulbright experiences with us.
Fulbright U.S. Specialist 2016 and Scholar 2018-2019 in Ukraine Yuri Yanchyshyn is the Principal and Senior Conservator of two firms in the New York City metropolitan area, Period Furniture Conservation LLC and Kensington Preservation LLC.
Yuri Yanchyshyn worked with wooden objects and their owners for over 30 years in a variety of settings, from a cabinet-maker’s shop to the laboratories of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Private collectors, museums, architects, decorative arts historians, fine arts advisors, designers and other conservators have all entrusted treasured items to Yuri’s care, and institutions such as New York University’s Institute for Fine Arts Conservation Center invite him to lecture.
Yuri holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the California Institute of the Arts. He received advanced training in conservation from the Amsterdam Academy for Restoration and the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, and frequently participates in ongoing continuing education courses.
The Ukrainian Iconostasis: History, Construction, and Preservation.
The above Zoom session was presented on September 30, 2021, and hosted by the UK ICOMOS Committee. This presentation briefly sketches the stylistic history of this sacral architectural form, its construction features, as well as examples of Soviet-era conservation treatments. The presenter was Svitlana Olianina Dr. habil, and was organized by Yuri Yanchyshyn of Period Furniture Conservation LLC.
Аrt historian and conservator Svitlana Olianina Dr. habil. is the Head of the Department of Graphic Arts of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute '' in Kyiv. Her focus is the historical design aspect of Ukrainian iconostasis. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Conservation Department of The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv in 2005. She previously interned at the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Granada in Spain in 1996–1997. She was the Head of the Institute for Cultural Research at the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine in Kyiv in 2008–2016 and achieved Dr. habil. status in 2020 from the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Over the years, she has published more than 50 articles on various aspects of iconostasis and its history, including her 2019 book -Ukrainian Iconostasis: symbolism and iconology (in Ukrainian).
Wooden Churches in Ukraine - A conservation Assessment Workshop (in Ukrainian), June 27, 2019
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