YEVDOKIYA and DMYTRO SOROKHANIUK. May, 1980.
A UKRAINIAN ARTIST IN THE AMERICAN LAND
(p. 58) In March this year Yevdokiya Sorokhaniuk, a wonderful Ukrainian, who resides in Pennsauken, the USA celebrated her 85-th anniversary. She was born in the village of Zhab'ye (now Verkhovyna). When she was six she learned how to embroider, later she became a weaver. During World War II together with her husband Dmytro and her daughter she had to escape to the West. Homeless years of wandering. In 1949 the family settled in America. On the new land Yevdokiya continued her great work on renewal of traditional Hutsul embroidered patterns. That became the sense of her life. In 1999 she, the first Ukrainian, received a prestigious in America National Heritage Fellowship State Award of the National Arts Fund. A result of her many years activity in the field of Hutsul embroidery was demonstrated by Yevdokiya in her book Hutsulshchyna in Patterns, which was issued in 2002. A unique edition includes a great bulk of information that dates back to the ancient Hutsul patterns. Yuriy Melnychuk, a senior scientific employee of the Ukrainian Center of Folk Culture Ivan Honchar's Museum, told the readers about the artist and mistress in the Sorokhaniuks family.