Palijczuk promoted to professor (12/28/80)

Palijczuk promoted to professor

WESTMINSTER, Md. - Wasyl Palijczuk, well known sculptor and painter, has been promoted from associate professor to full professor at Western Maryland College, according to The Hill, a campus publication.

Mr. Palijczuk, chairman of the art department and recent recipient of the Faculty Creative Award, came to the college in 1967. He earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland and his M.F.A. at the Maryland Institute of Art.

After arriving in the United States from his native Ukraine following World War II, Mr. Palijczuk, who had little formal of art education, worked his way through public school and, after a stint in the U.S. Air Force, capped a varied college career with a two-year fellowship at the Rinehart School of Sculpture.

He has had over 75 one-man shows throughout the country, exhibiting oils, water colors and sculptures in wood, stone, bronze and plastic. In addition, last summer he was organizer of the Ukrainian Festival Art Show at the Hopkins Plaza in Baltimore.

Mr. Palijczuk, who traces his career to his childhood interest in making mud sculptures of people in his village, told the Baltimore Evening Sun that he does not really know at what point his passion for art first emerged: "I don't know where my interest or instincts in art comes from," he told reporter Wanda Dobson. "That's just a mystery that I can't answer."

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