Embroidery - Created by four generations of women which honors their legacy: inspired by nature

CHICAGO - Nov. 28, 2018 - PRLog -- Admission $10.00


Opening: on Friday, November 30, 2018, at 7:00 pm, at the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago.  The museum welcomes for the first time an extraordinary never seen exhibit by Dr. Roksolana Tymiak –Lonchyna on display will be more than two hundred pieces of  four generations of embroidery and their legacy they leave behind.  Dr. Tymiak-Lonchyna's winter inspired beautiful photographs will be exhibited on aluminum canvases throughout the exhibit that will be available for purchase.

The exhibit will display her families generational embroidery that will tell a story and reflect on  their family history, including her own that will feature embroidered furniture, picture frames pillows, baby blankets and baby cradle to name a few.  You will be moved by all the endless labor of love that was put into all the designs.  The inspiration came one winter of embroidered magic in Syracuse, where the family of Dr. Roksolana was snowed in.  All the roads were snow covered, no one could leave the house, to go to school or work. All the women began to create magic and by the end of the storm a few a days later, a lasting and beautiful tradition was born and to be continued for many years to come.

Exhibit not to be missed, continues through December 28, 2018.

The Ukrainian National Museum is located in the heart of the Ukrainian Village, at 2249 West Superior Street in Chicago. Hours: Thursday through Sunday, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. Adults $5.00, Children under 12 - Free.
Free Parking is available beside the Museum.

Visit the Museum's website at www.ukrainiannationalmuseum.org., face book-Ukrainian National Museum

For additional information, please call (312) 421-8020 or e-mail info@UkrainianNationalMuseum.org (http://mail.ukrainiannationalmuseum.org/edgedesk/cgi-bin/...)

Travel Instructions:

From I-90/94 go west on Division to Oakley, then south on Oakley to Superior.

From I-290 go north on Western to Chicago, east on Chicago to Oakley, then South on Oakley to Superior.

From downtown (Michigan & Chicago) #66 Chicago Ave bus West to Oakley, then South on Oakley to Superior