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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T090000
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URL:https://www.uccn.org/event/dont-close-your-eyes-ukrainian-artists-resp
 ond-to-the-war-2/
SUMMARY:Don’t Close Your Eyes: Ukrainian Artists Respond to the War
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nOpening reception Wednesday\, January 17\, 5-7PM\nJoint
 ly curated by&nbsp\;Hanna Melnyczuk\, a Ukrainian-American artist\, and&nb
 sp\;Halyna Andrusenko\, an artist from Kyiv\, The Umbrella Arts Center’s
  iteration of the traveling exhibition\,&nbsp\;Don’t Close Your Eyes: Uk
 rainian Artists Respond to the War\,&nbsp\; features the work of 27 artist
 s from various regions of Ukraine\, responding to the invasion of Ukraine\
 , which began February 24\, 2022. Expressions of grief\, loss\, survival\,
  and hope range from surrealism to expressionism\, and include drawings\, 
 paintings\, mixed media\, papercuts\, lithographs\, and a six-minute video
 \, Protected\, in which Halyna Andrusenko echoes the wrapping of monuments
  in Kyiv by wrapping her parents in cloth.\nDon’t Close Your Eyes&nbsp\;
 features a broad spectrum of powerful work in response to the war in Ukrai
 ne. This work is a testament to the power of the human spirit\, and the ab
 ilities of artists to synthesize powerful emotions and responses into work
 s that transcend boundaries of time\, geography\, and space. The Umbrella 
 Arts Center’s exhibition&nbsp\; will be the final showing of&nbsp\;&nbsp
 \;Don’t Close Your Eyes\,&nbsp\;which has traveled around Massachusetts 
 including to UMass Lowell and&nbsp\; The New Arts Center in Newton and bey
 ond to Madison Arts &amp\; Culture Alliance in New Jersey and The Ukrainia
 n Institute of Chicago.\nProceeds from sales will be split between the cre
 ators and&nbsp\;Ukraine Forward\, which provides life-saving resources to 
 the people of Ukraine.\nThe exhibition&nbsp\;is free and open to the publi
 c. Indoor gallery hours are 9AM-9PM daily. The Umbrella is ADA accessible\
 , offers free lot and street parking\, and is conveniently located off Rou
 te 2 and two blocks from the Fitchburg Line.\n\n\n\n\n
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LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, Concord\, Massachusett
 s\, 01742\, United States
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