PROJECTS
CULTURAL HERITAGE

One of the main missions of the Foundation is to preserve and to present the Ukrainian cultural heritage. For more than 30 years Mykola Babak is collecting the folk icon, folk painting, village photos and other pieces of art (embroideries, ceramics and pottery, painted chests etc.) of the Middle-Upper-Dnieper Region of Ukraine. Nowadays his collection consists of about 10000 items. The Foundation permanently deals with collecting and restoration of pieces of art. The Foundation would be grateful to get as the present the pieces of the Ukrainian art, which represent its cultural heritage. The Foundation provides its restoration and presentation. 
CONTEMPORARY ART

One of the priorities of the Foundation is the support of the Ukrainian contemporary art, which is provided by the informative support of the cultural projects and gathering of sponsors or grunts to finance them.

PUBLISHING

The Foundation deals with the realization of publishing of art and cultural projects. In 2009 Mykola Babak published the monograph „Folk Icon of the Middle-Upper-Dnieper Region of the 18 – 20 c. in the Context of the Village Cultural Space”, which had got some of the most prestigious awards. It was the Best Book of the 16th Forum of Publishers in Lviv. It was granted with the Ivan Fedoriv Diploma of the “Book Art” contest. The jury of the XIth Ukrainian rating “Book of the Year 2009” defined the monograph to be the best, gave it the 1st place in the nominee “Visytivka” and Grant Prize as to the main winner. In 2010 its authors, Mykola Babak and Olexandr Naiden, had got the National Ukrainian Shevchenko Award.


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