aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] HUSI 2008: Mon., July 14, 7-9 p.m: Natalka Husar,"Between Tradition and the Avant-Garde"

["Seegel, Steven" <Steven.Seegel@worcester.edu>]

**** HARVARD UKRAINIAN SUMMER INSTITUTE EVENT **** 

 

On Monday, July 14, 2008, the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute is pleased to sponsor "Between Tradition and the Avant-Garde," a multimedia presentation by the critically acclaimed Ukrainian artist Natalka Husar. 


 

MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION

 

Natalka Husar, Artist

"Between Tradition and the Avant-Garde"
Monday, July 14, 2008, 7-9 p.m.
Harvard University

Center for Government and Int'l Studies (CGIS) South

Belfer Case Study Room, Room 0-20

 

The event is free and open to the public.  

For the HUSI 2008 calendar of events, please see: www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html <http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html> 

 

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

 

Natalka Husar was born in 1951 in New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1973 with a BFA and that same year moved to Toronto, where she lives and works.

 

Catalogued and traveling solo exhibitions include Faces/Facades,1980; Behind the Irony Curtain,1986; Milk and Blood, 1988-1989; True Confessions, 1991-1992; Black Sea Blue, 1995-1996, and Blond With Dark Roots, organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2001-2006.

 

Husar's work has been curated in a number of catalogued group exhibitions, notably Dangerous Goods at the Edmonton Art Gallery, 1990;  Art and Ethnicity at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1991-1995; and Perspectives: Canadian Women Artists at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2002-2003.   Her work titled "Library" which attracted attention for a copyright dispute in 2002 was part of the exhibition Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age with a six stop US tour, 2002-2005.

 

In 2006 Bravo TV profiled Natalka Husar's work in a half hour television documentary.  

She has received the support of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.  Most recently working on a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) grant she is collaborating with Canadian writer Janice Kulyk Keefer on a book project about contemporary Ukraine.

 

Husar's work is represented in numerous public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Winnipeg Art Gallery,  the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada.

 

 
Dr. Steven Seegel
Director, 2008 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute
Assistant Professor of History, Worcester State College
Harvard University
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
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