Embroidered "icons" exhibit begins tour of United States

by Irene Jarosewich

PARSIPPANY, N.J. - The Rev. Dr. Dmytro Blazhejovskij, renowned for his efforts to preserve Ukrainian iconography through embroidered reproductions of famous icons, arrived in New York from Rome on September 17 to begin a six-city tour with an exhibit of his works.

He will arrive in Houston on September 21; on September 27 he will fly to Denver; after Denver he will spend 10 days, October 4-14, in Chicago. He will be in Detroit on October 14-17, and then in Cleveland on October 18-24. Buffalo is his final stop on October 25-30.

The Rev. Blazhejovskij will be accompanied by the Rev. Ihor Kovalchuk, the director of the Rev. Dmytro Blazhejovskij Museum Gallery of Embroidered Icons, which in located in the center of Lviv. The tour is a fund-raiser for the museum, and embroidered "icons" from the exhibit can be purchased.

The Rev. Blazhejovskij, energetic and dynamic at age 97, will also be promoting his new book, to be published this fall in Ukraine. For further details about the traveling exhibit or the Rev. Blazhejovskij's soon-to-be-published book, contact Vlodko Blazhejovskij at 201-339-0234.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, September 24, 2006, No. 39, Vol. LXXIV

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