On December 25, the Cherkasy Art Museum hosted a presentation of the project “Kerelivka Photographer. The Heritage of Hryhoriy Shevchenko”, which was implemented by the Mykola Babak Foundation with the support of the Canada-Ukraine Foundation and Aid for Artists.
As part of the project, a mock-up of a monograph about the photo artist Hryhoriy Petrovych Shevchenko was created, as well as a virtual exhibition on the Google Arts & Culture platform (it is currently at the verification stage).
The monograph includes two articles by the leading researcher of the T. G. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Philological Sciences Lesya Generaliuk, as well as an article by the director of the T. G. Shevchenko Museum of Kobzar Olga Sharapa and the initiator of the project Mykola Babak (co-authored). The monograph was recommended for publication by the Academic Council of the T. G. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine. The publication has 250 pages and contains over 150 black-and-white and color illustrations.
The presentation of the project was attended by Deputy Head of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration Oleksandr Shamray, Head of the Department of Culture and Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration Oleksandr Shabatin, Rector of the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Cherkasy National University Oleksandr Cherevko, General Director of the National Reserve “Taras Shevchenko’s Homeland” Lyudmila Shevchenko, Director of the Cherkasy Regional Museum of Local Lore Iryna Sobko, scholars of higher education institutions and representatives of the cultural community of the city of Cherkasy, guests of the event.
The results of the project became another contribution to the work on actualizing the figure of Hryhoriy Shevchenko in Ukrainian culture – an artist whose creative legacy for a long time remained in the shadow of the figure of his great ancestor Taras Shevchenko.
We thank everyone who attended the presentation of the project on Christmas Day and showed respect for the work of Hryhoriy Shevchenko.
The Mykola Babak Foundation is sincerely grateful to the Canada-Ukrainian Foundation and Aid for Artists for their trust, financial support for the implementation of the project, and consistent cooperation with Ukrainian institutions in the field of culture and other humanitarian areas.