Let's talk about a beautiful Easter tradition that many Americans may not know about: painting pysanky eggs! This craft is probably unfamiliar to most families, who have their own Easter egg rituals.

With its complex geometry and designs, Ukrainian Easter eggs originated in pagan times. Artist and ethnographer Sofika Zielyk will discuss the colorful history and tradition of the Ukrainian Easter ...

Effervescent color tablets aren’t the only way to dye Easter eggs. The Ukrainian art of egg decorating, pysanky, dates back more than 1,000 years. The intricate designs have symbolic meanings – ...

Creating traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs is not for the faint of heart. The process can take two to four hours, even for the simplest eggs, instructor Bernadette Thorwart said Saturday morning in ...

CHICAGO -- Maria Fedachtchin’s fingers trembled a bit as she etched the first intricate lines of beeswax along the smooth, unblemished shell of an egg cradled in her palm. She’s learning to design ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While the Ukrainian eggs are less of a pagan offering and more of a classical art form these days, ...

Hours before she was scheduled to address the crowd gathered at the Dayton Art Institute, Christina Pereyma learned that Russia had just invaded Ukraine. The date was Thursday, February 24, 2022. The ...

Put down that egg dyeing kit and come look at the eggs Carol Novosel creates using wax and dyes like her Ukrainian ancestors did. Novosel said she can create one of these intricately designed eggs, ...

On a cold and snowy April morning at the Underwear Factory in Poughkeepsie, Ukrainian artist Vitalia Deriabina instructed a workshop of seven women in the art of writing “pysanky.” Pysanky is an ...

ELKHART — First Presbyterian Church will hold a Ukrainian Easter egg decoration workshop from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 16 at 200 E. Beardsley Ave. Known as pysanky, the technique uses raw eggs and ...

Finished pysanky, Ukrainian Easter eggs, are seen during an event on Thursday, March 23, 2023, at Garden Party Books in Rochester.