Glance at Culture - Ukrainian-American Artist Mira Hnatyshyn on Ukrainian History & Heritage, Art as Protest and Creating a Community of Empathy

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Cover Image: Freedom Holding Bread, Mira Hnatyshyn (2022)

To learn more, please visit Mira Hnatyshyn's website.

SHOW NOTES

2:15 Hnatyshyn’s work focused on identity, gender roles and cultural constructs 

3:00 influence of her Ukrainian culture and history

4:00 travels to Ukraine inspired The Braid Basket 

4:40 Revolution of Dignity

8:00 Orange Revolution

10:00 work in reaction to Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine

11:30 Ukrainian flag’s meaning

12:45 Pieta inspired Freedom Holding Bread

13:45 Fatal Run-Kyiv

15:40 abstract painting Red

17:15 military exercises preceded invasion

18:30 Mariupol theatre bombing of children, діти

20:50 message with paintings of empathy, knowledge, truth and justice

22:10 feedback from paintings 

22:40 painting titled Orange Revolution aka Invasion

24:30 art during war / potential for using art as protest

26:15 justice as a principle of fairness

26:45 hope for her work to facilitate justice and/or addressing injustice by not silencing empathy or truth 

27:45 artists creating a community of empathy with their work

28:35 her message to those impacted by war and atrocity

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