Ukrainian easter eggs

[yar...@skyfox.usask.ca]

Hi, I've been painting Ukrainian easter eggs (or writing the eggs, as is the
proper terminology ) since I was a child and started developing my designs and
techniques in my late teens. I had numerous workshops with the ukrainian
language school in Ottawa and public workshops in eastern Ontario. In my
travels to Ukraine I met a number of easter egg (or pysanky) writers from
the Carpathian mountains (the Hutzul people), exchanged adresses, and
subsequently got invited to speak and to show my designs at the first
International Congress of Pysanka Writers in Kiev in September 1992.
(Fortunately, my biology Ph.D. supervisor was understanding enough to give
me a month off). My paper concerned the development of the easter egg
designs in Canada over the last 100 years of ukrainian settlement in
Canada. Getting to the point:
1. I've been asked to submit names and addresses to the organizing committee
of the second international congress of semi-professional to professional
egg artists with a genuine interest in the art and the tradition of the
Ukrainian easter egg (or keen beginners with the addiction to the "craft").
If you are such an individual or you know of someone (your friendly "easter"
bunny), please e-mail me names, addresses, tel. no., fax no., email contact,
specific designs (hutzul, trypillian, abstract, etc) and years experience.
If you would like more details please let me know.
2. If you can offer any assistance (in the form of literature, newspaper
clippings, etc.) to my research on the development of easter egg designs
in North America (in particular) or in the diaspora in general please
contact me so I can further arrange things.
Thanks for listening,

Oksana K. Yarosh