{"id":20169,"date":"2024-01-26T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=20169"},"modified":"2024-01-26T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T22:13:00","slug":"dont-close-your-eyes-ukrainian-artists-respond-to-the-war","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/event\/dont-close-your-eyes-ukrainian-artists-respond-to-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Close Your Eyes: Ukrainian Artists Respond to the War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curated by Hanna Melnyczuk, a Ukrainian-American artist, and Halyna Andrusenko, an artist from Kyiv, The Umbrella Arts Center\u2019s iteration of the traveling exhibition <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t Close Your Eyes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> features the work of 27 artists from various regions of Ukraine responding to the invasion of their country, 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, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protected<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in which Halyna Andrusenko echoes the wrapping of monuments in Kyiv by wrapping her parents in cloth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t Close Your Eyes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> features a broad spectrum of powerful work in response to the war in Ukraine. This work is a testament to the power of the human spirit and the abilities of artists to synthesize powerful emotions and responses into works that transcend boundaries of time, geography, and space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Opening Reception with curator remarks will be open to the public on Wednesday, January 17, 5-7PM. Proceeds from artwork sales will be split between the creators and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukraineforward.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ukraine Forward<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which provides life-saving resources to the people of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition is free and open to the public. Indoor gallery hours are 9AM-9PM daily. The Umbrella is ADA accessible, offers free lot and street parking, and is conveniently located off Route 2 and two blocks from the Fitchburg Line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theumbrellaarts.org\/ukraine\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/theumbrellaarts.org\/ukraine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo credit: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ilya Yarovoy, Amounts, Public educational institution of vocational and technical education, Sumy, Ukraine, Watercolor, 2023<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curated by Hanna Melnyczuk, a Ukrainian-American artist, and Halyna Andrusenko, an artist from Kyiv, The Umbrella Arts Center\u2019s iteration of the traveling exhibition Don\u2019t Close Your Eyes features the work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20170,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tag":[],"tribe_events_cat":[97],"class_list":["post-20169","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-exhibits","cat_exhibits"],"acf":{"explore_list_featured_select":"2","select_experience":false,"select_topic":false,"select_theme":false,"select_location":false,"select_audience":false,"descriptor":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/20169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/20169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20341,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/20169\/revisions\/20341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag?post=20169"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=20169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}