Ukraine's World Cup team gets support on Fifth Avenue

NEW YORK - The artsy and intrepid team of Adrian and Denys Dlaboha, Jason Hryckowian and Lesya Hentisz, collectively "Ukreyda," of Queens, turned heads with their artwork on Fifth Avenue in front of the Guggenheim Museum. The chalk art, created on June 13, was part of the Museum Mile Festival that occurs annually in New York. "Ukreyda" (a moniker adopted for this project) drew the Ukrainian World Cup Soccer team emblem with blue and yellow sidewalk chalk. Intrigued passers-by, including many children, asked about the emblem, and decided to root for Ukraine's team during the World Cup. People who otherwise knew little to nothing about Ukraine got a healthy dose of information from the artists.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 25, 2006, No. 26, Vol. LXXIV

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