Making Art with Women and Children

I received an invitation from one of the New York City emergency shelter to organize an art class for women and children who have been affected by emotional, economical, sexual or physical abuse.

It was a completely new experience for me as an artist and a private art teacher.
I’m glad I agreed to be part of this event. This experience taught me so many things about society, health, relationships and parenthood.
On my way back home to Hudson I contemplated a lot about my own life. And I realized how much me being an artist helps to overcome problems and issues which inevitably present themselves.
The joy and satisfaction of art making brings us back home where it is safe and less painful to be human in this world. Home it is not a place, it is a feeling.
Art bridges the gap between what is speakable and what is unspeakable.
Art-making provides support when words alone cannot express the feelings of chaos.

To all my artist friends, if you would like to volunteer and prepare you own art class and vision for women emergency shelter please contact my friend Ruby for further information. Phone: 4158878226

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radio interview - WGXC Afternoon Show, 90.7FM

RADIO INTERVIEW

Artist Maryna Bilak Haughton and her husband Maurice Haughton discuss her traditional Ukrainian winter star sculpture/installation created for Hudson Winter Walk.

Interviewed by Ellen Thurston and Tom DePietro.

Recorded during the WGXC Afternoon Show on Thursday, November 30, 2017.

https://wavefarm.org/archive/g2h514

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Grand celebration at Hudson Winter Walk, 2017

Ukrainian Winter Star 

sculpture/installation

Traditionally Ukrainian Star has a shape of octagonal – eight rays coming from the center. This star is octagram: the projection of the diamond (the heavenly world) into a square (the material world), and their mutual intersection.

Ideologically, this is a symbol of the Order and the World Creation. It connects all sides of the world and indicates absolute balance, harmony and equilibrium.

 

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artist Maryna Bilak 

Hudson Winter Walk

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Winter Walk – December 2, 2017 | 5–8 pm

Ukrainian Winter Star


New to Winter Walk this year is traditional Ukrainian Winter Star sculpture/installation by Ukrainian-born, Hudson-based artist Maryna Bilak. The brightly lit and colorful star-shaped wooden structure will stand eight feet tall with eight rays emanating from the center, an ancient symbol of balance, harmony, and equilibrium. 

 

Maryna Bilak 

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Maryna Maurice Collaboration Sculpture Project

For the first time my husband and I will show the work we made together!

Sp grateful to Greene County Council on the Arts

Maryna Maurice Collaboration

Title: Negative Space of Positive Bodies

Sculpture project

Medium: plaster

Our sculpture is a result of an attempt to capture the shape of air between our bodies. Honoring gravity, respecting material, using intuitive thinking and sense of compositional harmony we let nature play a role in a making process.

The physical act involves our two bodies and the sculpture material, which from liquid transforms into solid substance.

While we share an intimate space together a substance is used between our flesh. The result work is an abstract image of a space between two identities (husband and wife) supporting and balancing each other and sharing a sensual space together.  A negative space between two positively energized forms manifests possibilities of two characters interacting physically and emotionally. 

GCCA’s “Co-Lab Lab” Exhibition to Focus on the Art of Collaboration

A multi-generational, multi-discipline exploration of “working together”

Calendar Entry:  The Co-Lab Lab (an exhibit centered on collaboration). July 29, 2017 through September 23, 2017. Opening Reception, Saturday July 29, 5-7 p.m. GCCA Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY.  Gallery Hours: M-F 10-5, Sat. 12-5. FREE.  www.greenearts.org, 518-943-3400

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http://www.greenearts.org 
Greene County Council on the Arts

Maryna Bilak Maurice Haughton  
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Highlites from AFTER TIFFANY opening

After Tiffany - is my 6th solo show in New York. Coincidentally it was part of the 6th Annual LIC Arts Open Festival. At this show I presented 13 works through which I went after a message of personal story.

Who can be happy?

And who talks about wanting to be happy but doesn’t know how?

Is my happiness a choice?

High pressure and extreme temperature became normal.

And we went under earth.  

And we went digging and digging,

And when I almost was ready to give up right there, deep underground Hard rock under extreme pressure and extreme high temperature transformed into a diamond.

People say only under these circumstances, only in this heavy way the diamond can be born.

While listening to jazz we put that diamond on my finger.

And after tiffany…after tiffany, it didn’t become easier or cooler.

After tiffany it is not all in greenish blue.

And that is how I know we have a chance to find more of those precious stones.   

 During the introduction speech to the show I recited my first poem in English

 (from right) Maurice Haughton, me, Scott Marshall Griffin, Melanie Lemieux

 with Melanie Lemieux - the owner/director of New York Stage of Mind

 with Emily O'Leary - Associate Curator at Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale, and Ana Paulina Sucre

 with painter Mariella Franceschi

 TV and radio host Miguel Moreno and sculptor Kathryn Beckwith

   Performance by Ariel Kleinberg

with artist Maud Bryt

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Event AFTER TIFFANY welcoms Ariel Kleinberg

My show AFTER TIFFANY at New York Stage of Mind will be welcoming a great artist
Ariel Kleinberg. Ariel is a painter and performer from New York, NY. We anticipate to see a special performance filled with mysterious symbols reflecting the complexity of creative being.  

http://www.arielkleinberg.com/

AFTER TIFFANY
Opening reception - Thursday, May 19th, 6-9pm
at New York Stage of Mind
37-34 29th St, Long Island City , NY 11101
LIC Arts Open 2016