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Myroslava Mudrak—Professor

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Myroslava Mudrak

Professor Mudrak has devoted her scholarly interests to the study of art in East and Central Europe, Ukraine, and Russia. She concentrates mostly on modern European art (both East and West) between the two world wars and the art of the post-socialist era. Her teaching covers the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with special emphasis on avant-garde and abstract art.


Education

  • Ph. D. 1980 The University of Texas at Austin
  • M. A. 1973 Columbia University
  • B. A. 1972 Case Western Reserve University

Publications

    Articles & Essays

  • "Burliuk—The 'Radio-Modernist'" in Futurism and After: David Burliuk 1882–1967, exhibition catalogue, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2008, pp. 19–23.
  • "Malevich and his Ukranian Contemporaries," in Charlotte Douglas and Christina Lodder, "Rethinking Malevich: Proceedings of a Conference in Celebration of the 125th Anniversary of Kazimir Malevich's Birth," London: Pindar Press, 2007, 82–120.
  • "Burliuk: The Radio-Modernist." Exhibition: Futurism and After: David Burliuk, 1882–1967. Winnipeg Art Gallery. October 2006.
  • "The Avant-Garde." Exhibition: Ukrainian Modernism: 1910–1930. Chicago Cultural Center. September 2006, pp. 31–38, 98–104.
  • "Czech Modernism and the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts: Parallel Strategies," Ukrajinské výtvarné um?ní v mezivále?ném ?eskoslovensku [Ukrainian Visual Arts in Interwar Czechoslovakia] (Prague: Národní knihovna CR, 2005), pp. 53–63.
  • "Portraying Selfhood: The Art of Lydia Bodnar –Balahutrak," Bi-lingual monograph on the Artist Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak. Kyiv: "Sophia-A," 2005, pp. 8–15.
  • "Eastern Europe 1900–2000," Atlas of World Art, ed. John Onians. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 282–283.
  • "Neue Slowenische Kunst and the Semiotics of Suprematism," Irwinretroprincip 1983–2003, ed. Inke Arns. Frankfurt-am-Main: Revolver, 2003, pp. 93–120.
  • "Rupture or Continuum? Ukraine's Avant-Garde in Search of a System,"The Phenomenon of the Ukrainian Avant-Garde 1910–1935, exh. cat. Winnipeg Art Gallery (10 October 2001 to 13 January 2002), pp. 25–29; 55–60; 85–90.
  • "Warhol as Iconographer," Slovak Season/Neighboring Country, exh. cat. Warsaw: Center of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Palace (October 2002), 13.
  • "Neue Slowenische Kunst and the Semiotics of Suprematism," Centropa: A Journal of Central European Architecture and Related Arts, vol. 1, no. 3 (September 2001), pp. 219–232.
  • "Russian Artistic Modernism and the West: Collectors, Collections, Exhibitions, and Artists." The Russian Review, Vol. 58, No. 3 (July 1999), pp. 467–481.
  • "On the Fold of the Centuries: The Fourth Renascence," The Art School on the Eve of the Third Millennium. Lviv: Ukrains'ki tekhnolohii, 1999, pp. 12–18.
  • "Ukrainian Dada? Or Tradition Revisited: A Preliminary Study," Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada, gen. ed. Stephen C. Foster, vol. IV: The Dada Orbit: Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and Japan, ed. Gerald Janecek. New York: G. K. Hall and Company, 1998, pp. 190–222.
  • "Suprematism" in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly. Vol. 3. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 336–339.
  • "The Past Made Present," Valentin Popov. Exhibition Catalogue. New York: Mimi Ferzt Gallery (September 26-October 12, 1996), pp. 10–12.
  • The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner. New York: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1996: "ARMU—Association of Revolutionary Artists of Ukraine," vol. 2, 634; "Oleksander Bohomazov," vol. 4, 236–237; "Oleksander Hryshchenko," vol. 14, 819 (authorship incorrectly attritubed to Jeremy Howard); "Vasyl' Krychevs'kyi," vol. 18, 481–482 (authorship incorrectly attributed to Sergei Kuznetsov); "Vasyl' Masyutyn," vol. 20, 807; "Oleksander Murashko," vol. 22, 338); "Oleksa Novakivs'kyi," vol. 23, 262; "Klyment Red'ko," vol. 26, 71.
  • "Where Have All the Mallows Gone? Tangled Roots 16th Annual New Music and Arts Festival. Bowling Green State University (October 13-November 3, 1995), unpaginated.
  • "Lost in the Widening Cracks and Now Resurfaced: Dissidence in Ukrainian Painting," Nonconformist Art: The Soviet Experience 1956–1986 (New York and London: Thames and Hudson Press, 1995; also in From Gulag to Glasnost': Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995).
  • "What Does the World Know About Us? Obrazotvorche mystetstvo [The Visual Arts], Kiev, no. 2 (March-April 1992), pp. 15–16.
  • "Environments of Propaganda: Russian and Soviet Expositions and Pavilions in the West," The Avant-Garde Frontier: Russia Meets the West, 1910–1930, ed. Gail Harrison Roman and Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992, pp. 65–101.
  • "Some Thoughts About the Persistence of the Ukrainian Avant-Garde," SVITO-VYD, III, No. 8 (1992), pp. 42–48.
  • "Why Ukrainian and Why Avant-Garde? An Essay," in Ukrajinska avangarda 1910–1930. Zagreb, Croatia (16 December 1990–24 February 1991), pp. 29–34, 61–65.
  • "Ernst L. Kirchner"; "Kees Van Dongen"; "Jan Müller" in Impressionism and European Modernism: The Sirak Collection. Columbus, Ohio: The Columbus Museum of Art, 1991, pp. 64–69, 116–117, 170–171.
  • "The Inconsequential in Ukrainian Painting: In Defense of Genre," in Spirit of Ukraine: 500 Years of Painting. Selection from the State Museum of Ukrainian Art, Kiev. Winnipeg, Edmonton, Hamilton, Canada (August 1991-June 1992), pp. 39–42; 93–94.
  • "The Odessa Group of Contemporary Artists in Ukraine," Art in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. Berlin: Verlag Arno Spitz Gmbh, 1991, pp. 405–425.
  • "Soviet Art Today: Vitality and Experimentation," a review of the exhibition, The Quest for Self-Expression: Painting in Moscow and Leningrad 1965–1990, The Columbus Museum of Art, in ARTnews (December 1990), p. 172.
  • "The Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts in Prague and the Art of Jan Kulec, " Art Journal, vol. 49, no. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 36–43.
  • "Le Panfuturisme ou le constructivisme vu d'Ukraine," Ligeia: dossiers sur l'art, nos. 5–6 (avril-septembre 1989), pp. 116–123.
  • "Sheptyts'kyi as Patron of the Arts," Morality and Reality: The Life and Times of Andrei Sheptyts'kyi. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1989, pp. 289–306.
  • "Reflections on Icons,"A Millennium of Christian Culture in Ukraine. London, 1988, pp. 70–115.
  • "Panfuturism—The Artistic Vanguard in Ukraine,"Coexistence Among the Avant-Gardes: An International Colloquium, Vol. II. Ljubljana: Drustvo za estetiko, 1987, pp. 73–84.
  • "The Painted Surface in the Ukrainian Avant-Garde: From Facture to Construction," Pantheon: International Art Journal, XLV (1987), pp. 138–143.
  • "Russian Theatre Holdings at the Humanities Research Center," The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, no. 10 (1978), pp. 37–43.
  • "Modern Expression and Folk Tradition in the Theatrical Art of Anatol' Petryts'kyi," Cross Currents, III (1984), pp. 385–395.
  • "Four Young Female Artists From New York Visit Cleveland," The Ukrainian Weekly (January 30, 1982).
  • "Vadym Meller, Les' Kurbas and the Berezil' Theatrical Association: 'Hello, From Wave 477'," Russian History/Histoire russe, vol. 8, pts. 1–2 (1981), pp. 199–218.
  • "Ivan Marchuk: Modern Icon Painter," Shliakh peremohy [Victory Path], (July 29, 1979).
  • "The Exhibition of Hryhorij Kruk in Cleveland," Svoboda (February 21, 1975).
  • "Hans Burgkmair," in Sixteenth Century German Graphics. Exhibition Catalogue. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972.
  • "The Role of the Ukrainian Museum," The Ukrainian Weekly (New Jersey).

    • Books, Edited Volumes, & Exhibition Catalogues

  • The New Generation and Artistic Modernism in the Ukraine. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986 Winner of Kovaliw Book Prize Award, 1988.
  • Contemporary Art From the Ukraine: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture. Munich-London-New York-Paris, 1979

    • Reviews

  • Neumaier, Diane, ed. Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art. The Dodge Nonconformist Art Publication Series. New Brunswick: The Jane Voorees Zimmerli Art Museum; Rutgers University Press, 2004, The Russian Review, vol. 65, no. 2 (April 2006), 316–317.
  • Djuric, Dubravka and Misko Suvakovic, eds. Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-gardes, Neo avant-gardes, and Post avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918–1991. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003, Centropa: A Journal of Central European Architecture and Related Arts, vol. 5, no. 2 (May 2005), 162–164.
  • Bowlt, John E., and Nikolai Kasak. From Action to Dynamic Silence: The Art of Nikolai Kasak. With contributions by Robert Kramer and Nicoletta Misler (Salt Lake City: Charles Schlacks, Jr., 1991), Russian Review, vol. 53, no. 3 (July 1994), 435–436.
  • National Gallery of Art, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kazimir Malevich 1878–1935. Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 36, no. 4 (Winter 1992), 525–527.
  • Lavrentiev, Alexander. Varvara Stepanova: The Complete Work, ed. John E. Bowlt (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), Russian Review, vol. 50, no. 4 (October 1991), 496–497.
  • Alexander Kamensky. Martiros Saryan: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Book Illustrations, Theatrical Design (Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1988), Russian Review, vol. 48, no. 4 (October 1989), 443–445.
  • Christina Lodder. Russian Constructivism (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983); John Milner. Vladimir Tatlin and the Russian Avant-Garde (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983), The Art Bulletin (June 1987), 313–315.
  • Paul R. Magosci and Florian Zapletal. Holzkirchen in den Karpathen/ Wooden Churches in the Carpathians (Wien: W. Braumüller, 1982), Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol. 8, no. 3–4 (December 1984), 540–542.
  • Fan Parker and Stephen Jan Parker. Russia on Canvas: Ilya Repin (London, 1980), Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 13 (Fall 1982), 91–94.
  • Vadym Pavlovsky. Vasyl' H. Krychevsky. His Life and Work (New York, 1974), Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 20, no. 4 (Winter 1976), 501–502.
  • Zinovii Fogel. Vasilii Ermilov (Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1975), Soviet Union/ Union soviétique, vol. 3, pt. 2 (1976), 326–327.

Seminars, Lectures & Presentations

    Invited Lectures

  • "Color and Its Dynamic in Ukrainian Modernist Painting," in conjunction with the exhibition, Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine 1910–1930. The Ukrainian Museum, New York. (November 12, 2006).
  • "In Search of a Modernist Style: Ukrainian Book Graphics of the 1920s-1930s." Harvard Summer School (August 3, 2005).
  • "Fabergé and the Arts and Crafts Movement of Late Imperial Russia," in conjunction with the Columbus Museum of Art exhibition The Fabergé Menagerie: Animal Creations of the Fabergé Workshops. Columbus Museum of Art (October 17, 2003)
  • "The Art of Taras Shevchenko." Ukrainian Cultural Association of Ohio. Upper Arlington Library. (March 8, 2003)
  • "Vasyl' H. Krychevsky and the Ukrainian Modern Style," The Ukrainian Museum (March 26, 2000).
  • The Iconostasis. Pontifical College Josephinum. (February 9, 2002)
  • "Ilya Kabakov and the Sport of Memory." Columbus Museum of Art. (May 17, 2001).
  • "Ukraine's Modern Art: Then and Now." Pennsylvania State University (April 19, 2001)
  • "The Poltava Zemstvo," Harvard University Ukrainian Summer Institute, July 17, 2000.
  • "Impressionist and Luminist Tendencies in the Development of Vasyl' H. Krychevsky's Painting Style," The Ukrainian Museum, New York (March 24, 2000)
  • "Ukrainian Ecclesiastical Art and Architecture: Its Byzantine Heritage." Harvard University Ukrainian Summer Institute (August 5, 1999)
  • "The Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1920s." Harvard University Ukrainian Summer Institute (August 3, 1999)
  • "Modernism, Modernity and the Avant-Garde." Soros Center for Contemporary Art. Kyiv, Ukraine. (December 23, 1997)
  • "What is Modernism?" Poltava Technical University, Department of Art and Design. Poltava, Ukraine. (December 17, 1997)
  • "The Ukrainian Avant-Garde." Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Canada (May 15, 1992)
  • "Keynote Address: The Twentieth Anniversary of the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art." Chicago, Illinois (November 10, 1991)
  • "Futurist Visions, Pedestrian Needs: The Dilemma of the Russian Architectural Avant-Garde." The Wexner Center for the Visual Arts (April 2, 1991)
  • "Russian Art for American Viewers." Columbus Museum of Art (September 18, 1990)
  • "Artistic Modernism in the Ukraine." University of Pittsburgh (March 28, 1985)
  • "Nova generatsiia and the Ukrainian Avant-Garde," Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (July 17, 1984)
  • "Anatol' Petryts'kyi and the Ukrainian Avant-Garde," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (April 7, 1984)
  • "The Ukrainian Artistic Avant-Garde of the 1920s," Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Toronto, Ontario (April 20, 1982)
  • "Rauschenberg," The American Library, Warsaw, Poland (February 3, 1981)
  • "Ss. Cyril and Methodius," Seventeenth Annual Ss Cyril and Methodius Heritage Day, Houston, Texas (July 8, 1979)
  • "Kiev—Its Art and Architecture," Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland (August 13, 1978)

    • Other

  • "Ukrainian Modernism, Identity, and Nationhood: Then and Now." Public Forum, Chicago Cultural Center, in conjunction with the exhibition, Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine 1910- 1930 (September 27, 2006).
  • "Cross-Cultural Influences in the Post-Soviet Era: the Case of Ukraine." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Salt Lake City, Utah. (November 2005).
  • "Symposium Closing Remarks. Alexander Archipenko Revisited: Current Scholarship." Cooper Union, New York (September 17, 2005).
  • "Archipenko Between East and West," VII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Berlin, Humboldt University (July 25–30, 2005).
  • "Malevich in Ukraine." Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York (February 8, 2005)
  • "Malevich and His Ukrainian Contemporaries," Malevich Society Conference. City University of New York (February 6–7, 2005).
  • "Czech Modernism and the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts: Parallel Strategies," Conference: "Ukrainian in Interwar Prague." Prague, Czech Republic (November 13, 2003).
  • "The Transfiguration of the Revolution: The Iconography of Light in the Avant-Garde," Conference: The Icon and Modernity: Mystery, Meaning, Means." The Harriman Institute at Columbia University, New York (October 17–19, 2003).
  • "Polish Modernism and Ukrainian Artists: Parallel Strategies," Conference: "Local Strategies. International Ambitions: Modern Art and Central Europe 1918–1968. The Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague (June 11–14, 2003).
  • "The Analyst's Couch." Conference: Those Crazy Russians: Madness in Russian Culture, History and Society (April 5–6, 2003).
  • "Contemporary Arts in Ukraine," Panel: "A Multifaceted Analysis of Contemporary Ukrainian Culture: Music, Art, and Language." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA., November 22–23, 2002.
  • Pre-performance lecture: Ballet Prelocaj, "Le Sacre du Printemps" Wexner Center for the Arts, October 21, 2002.
  • "The Centenary of David Burliuk's Birth." Conference-Symposium sponsored by the David Burliuk Foundation, Ukraine. Simferopil, Crimea. Summer 2002
  • "David Burliuk—Ukrainian Father of Russian Futurism." Lecture: Lebedyn-Sumy, Ukraine. Summer 2002.
  • "Neue Slowenische Kunst and the Semiotics of Suprematism, " College Art Association Conference 2000, New York City Panel: Modernism and Nationalism, Postmodernism and Postnationalism? (February 24, 2000)
  • "Klyment Red'ko: Mining the Depths of Electro-organicity." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, Missouri Panel: Science, Technology and the Russian Avant-Garde (November 18–21, 1999)
  • "On the Fold of the Centuries: The Fourth Renascence." Lviv Academy of Arts Symposium: The Art School on the Eve of the Third Millennium, L'viv, Ukraine (October 12–16, 1999)
  • "Photomontage in Ukrainian Language Journals of the 1920s" American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boca Raton, Florida September 24–27, 1998. Panel: "Art and Agitation: Litterateurs, Photographers, and the Soviet Mass Press, 1928–1932."
  • "Photomontage Between East and West, National and International" Annual Meeting: College Art Association, Toronto, Canada, February 27-March 1, 1998
  • "The Preservation of a Cultural Legacy: Ukrainian Art of the Diaspora" University of Minnesota, Minnesota Museum of Art (November 8–9, 1996) Conference: "Visual Diversity: Revitalization of Ethnic Arts and Material Culture Since 1960.
  • "Emergence of Nationalism and Modern Universalism from Neo-Classicism to the Avant- Garde: The Case of Vasyl' Krychevs'kyi." Prague College of Studies in Art and Architecture, Prague, Castle, Czech Republic. August 28–31, 1996. Conference: "Modernity and Democracy"
  • "The Historical Development of Contemporary Ukrainian Painting." Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland. (October 1, 1993) Exhibition: "Stepy Europy: Nowa sztuka Ukrainy."
  • "Ethnic Modernism: Ukrainian Artists in Poland." Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Victoria, B. C., Canada (November 12–15, 1992). Panel: The Also-Rans: Refiguring the Pantheon of East European Modernism.
  • "Artistic Ukraine After the Second World War." Academia Romana. Institul de Istoria Artei, Bucharest (October 26–28, 1992). Conference: Art and Ideology in Central and East Europe Between 1945 and 1965.
  • "Boichuk and Boichukist Monumentalism in Ukraine." Twenty-third National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (November 22–25, 1991). Panel: Exotic Species: Avant-Garde Painting in Central Asia, Transcaucasus, and Ukraine.
  • "Contemporary Ukrainian Art From a Foreign Perspective." Biennale of Ukrainian Contemporary Painting, L'viv, Ukraine (September 14–15, 1991) Conference: On the Problems and Issues in Contemporary Ukrainian Art.
  • "The Russian Front: Perspectives on the Currents Shaping Contemporary Art." Columbus Museum of Art (October 12–13, 1990)
  • "From a Kievan Perspective: Cubo-Futurism and the 'Formal Method' Theory." Seventy-eighth Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Inc. (February 14–17, 1990). Panel: Criticism and the Russian Avant-Garde.
  • "The Expressionist Strain in the Paintings of Anatol' Petryts'kyi." Twenty-first National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (November 2–5, 1989). Panel: Expressionism in the Arts of Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s.
  • "Ukrainian Religious Art in the 18th Century." Twenty-second Annual Duquesne University History Forum (October 26–28, 1988) Panel: The Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine.
  • "The Religious Paintings of Levyts'kyi and Borovykovs'kyi." University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Summer Research Institute (June 20–25, 1988) Conference: From Kievan Rus' to Modern Ukraine: A Millennium of Growth.
  • "Art and Actuality: The Harvest Theme in Soviet Socialist Realism." Cleveland State University; Youngstown State University (October 29–30, 1983) Conference: Destroying the Opposition: Moscow's Planned Famine in the Ukraine 1932–1933.
  • "Panfuturism: The Artistic Vanguard in Ukraine." International Colloquium: Coexistence Among the Avant-Gardes, Ljubljana, Slovenia (October 15–18, 1986).
  • "The Artistic Aspect of the Jacyk Collection of Ukrainian Serials." University of Toronto Library (February 19, 1983).
  • "Pavilions, Expositions, and Other Environments of Propaganda: Message, Method, and Symbol." Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, New York City (February 13, 1986) Panel: The Avant-Garde Frontier—Russia Meets the West.
  • Sheptyts'kyi as Patron of the Arts." University of Toronto (November 22–24, 1984) Conference: Andrei Sheptyts'kyi—His Life and Work.
  • "Some Issues in the History of Ukrainian Art." Conference on Ukrainian Culture: Selected Topics, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (June 24–29, 1984)
  • "The Pedagogical Program of Mykhailo Boichuk." University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Summer Research Institute (June 27, 1984) Conference: Ukrainian 20th Century Culture.
  • "Utopian Visions and Shattered Dreams: The Soviet Artistic Avant-Garde." Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, Ohio (May 4–5, 1984)
  • "The Birth and Death of the Byzantine Revival in Modern Ukrainian Art." Mid-West Slavic Conference. The Ohio State University (May 4, 1984).
  • "Oleksander Bohomazov." Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Meeting, University of British Columbia (June 6, 1983)
  • "Panfuturism: A View of Constructivism from the Ukraine." International Conference on Constructivism, Poznan-Goluchow, Lodz, Poland (December 10–12, 1980) Panel: "La relation du constructivisme d'Europe de l'Est et d'Europe Centrale avec l'avant-garde des deux premiers décennies du XX sičcle.
  • "The Odessa Group of Contemporary Artists in the Ukraine." Second World Congress on Soviet and East European Studies, Garmisch, Germany (September 30-October 4, 1980)
  • "The Painted Surface in the Ukrainian Avant-Garde: From Facture to Cosntruction." Symposium: Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (January 17–19, 1980)

Professional Activities

    Academic Appointments

  • OSU Fulbright Selection and Interview Committee

    • General

  • "Crossroads: Ukrainian Modernism 1910–1930" Wall texts and museum brochure. Ukrainian Museum, New York, New York (November 5, 2006-March 11, 2007).
  • "From Khrushchev to Gorbachev: The People, Politics and Painting of Russia." Lecture Series: Hedrick Smith, David Elliott, William Luers, Norton Dodge. Columbus Museum of Art (Autumn 1990).
  • The Columbus Museum of Art Exhibition, "The Quest for Self-Expression: Painting in Moscow and Leningrad 1965–1990." Columbus, Ohio (Summer-Autumn 1990)
  • "Christianity in Ukraine: The Artist's Imagination." The Public Library of Columbus & Franklin County (August 1–31, 1988).

    • Memberships

  • Society of Historians of East European and Russian Art and Architecture (Board member)

    • Professional Affiliations

  • The Getty Foundation. Member of the Review Committee for Getty Fellowships for Scholars from East Europe. 1993–1996
  • Biennale "L'viv '91—Renaissance." L'viv, Ukraine (August-October 1991)
  • American Councils of Learned Societies. Review of Research Proposals on Russia, East Europe and New Independent States

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

  • Travel Grant: OSU Office of International Affairs, College of the Arts, and History of Art Department, 2003, 1996, 1991, 1990
  • The Ohio State University College of the Arts Research Grant, Level I, 2005
  • OSU College of the Arts Research Grant—Level I for the project, "St. Sophia." 2004
  • OSU College of the Arts Research Grant—Level II for the project, "Art Publishing and Modern Book Graphics." 2002
  • Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Research Grant. 2000
  • OSU College of the Arts International Travel Grant to L'viv, Ukraine. 1999
  • 1998 OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
  • International Research and Exchanges Board Short-Term Travel Grant, Kyiv and Poltava (Ukraine), 1997
  • OSU College of the Arts Research Grant on the "Modernism and Democracy" symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, 1996
  • OSU College of the Arts Research Grant to participate in the People to People Archivists Program to Russia and Poland, 1995
  • Critical Difference for Women Professional Development Grant, 1994
  • International Research and Exchanges Board Short-Term Travel Grant. Kiev, Ukraine, 1993
  • OSU College of the Arts Research Grant to attend Ceri Fresco Workshop, Rome, Italy, 1993
  • Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences Summer Seminar. Hunter, New York, 1992
  • International Research and Exchanges Board Grant. Bucharest, Romania, 1992
  • American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, San Francisco, 1992
  • Phi Kappa Phi, 1991
  • Nominated for the 1988 and 1990 Outstanding Teaching Awards, OSU, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Gallery of Contemporary Art Travel Grant, Zagreb, Croatia, 1990
  • Phi Beta Delta, 1990
  • 1988 Kovaliw Book Prize for the New Generation and Artistic Modernism in the Ukraine
  • Fulbright Fellow (Poland, 1980); (Czechoslovakia, 1987)
  • The Ohio State University College of the Arts Research and Faculty Development Grant, 1983,1985
  • University of Texas Fellow, 1979–1980
  • Grace Hill Milam Endowed Presidential Scholar, University of Texas at Austin, 1978–1979
  • International Research and Exchanges Fellow (IREX), Ukraine, 1977–1978
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1972

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