Embassy hosts two exhibits: art, agriculture

The Embassy of Ukraine in Washington hosted two exhibits in December in its renovated main reception rooms. More than 50 works by 12 contemporary Ukrainian artists were exhibited during the first week of December. Pictured right is Olga Volga of Kyiv, standing beside her painting "Sunflowers."

On December 11, the subject at the Ukrainian Embassy exhibit shifted from art to agriculture, with the opening of an exhibit titled "Contributions of Ukrainian Americans to the Agriculture of the United States." Organized jointly with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, the exhibit highlights the contribution of Ukrainian immigrants in such areas as wheat and sugar beet production, forestry, apiculture, plant genetics and veterinary medicine. In the photo above, Edward Knipling of the USDA Agriculture Research Service recounts some of these contributions, as Ambassador Yuri Shcherbak, Agricultural Attaché Volodymyr Vlasov, Pamela Andre, director of the National Agricultural Library, and Chris Goldwait of USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service, look on. Stephan Kurylas also addressed the opening ceremony.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, February 2, 1997, No. 5, Vol. LXV

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