This isn’t your average, from-a-kit Easter egg dying. In preparation for the holiday, many Ukrainians partake in a tradition of intricately decorating eggs called ‘pysanka.’ The term comes from the ...

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 ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Every year before Easter, Olenka Mackey paints eggs in the traditional Ukrainian way of etching by hand and dipping the eggs in a variety of colors. "Ukrainian women start making ...

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 ...

The Vogel family of Raymond makes pysanky — Ukrainian Easter eggs — all year round, not just at Easter. Anya Vogel gave a demonstration on how to make the eggs on Sunday after Palm Sunday services at ...

Artist Aka Pereyma, who lived in Troy much of her life, was best known for her delicate Ukrainian Eggs. What’s less known? Throughout her lifetime she also created folk art in a wide variety of other ...

Egg decorating is always a fun project for kids, but can be just as much fun for adults. The most familiar is the dyed colored Easter eggs using food coloring or the kits found at the local store.

ELLWOOD CITY – Artist Sarah McCraley embraces the centuries-old Ukrainian tradition of pysanky egg decorating. After blowing the egg out of the shell it is decorated using beeswax with a tool called a ...

FARGO — Coloring eggs is associated with springtime and Easter for many, but for Mary Jo Cayley, it’s a year-round passion. For 40 years, the Fargo woman has been dyeing eggs in the intricate ...

Layers of beeswax designs and dye go into making pysanky eggs, an Easter tradition in Ukraine and other countries in eastern and central Europe. Many people feeling heartbroken and helpless over the ...

POTTSVILLE – As she admired the delicate colors and patterns of the pysanky egg she cradled in her hands, Haidyn Neifert smiled. “I really like it,” the 13-year-old from Schuylkill Haven said. Neifert ...