Exhibition Sponsorship

Our newest exhibition, "Depicting Genocide: 20th Century Responses to the Holodomor", opening on June 4th, 2023 will explore how artists attempted to convey the horrors of the Holodomor from the 1950s through the 1990s in a variety of styles and media. Works are drawn from the UHEC’s permanent collections, including the exhibition cornerstone — the unveiling of the recently restored 1962 masterpiece Zemlia (The Earth) by Bohdan Pevny.

Other items in this exhibit have not been seen in decades, if ever at all. This includes Victor Cymbal’s The Year 1933, which depicts an emaciated woman holding an equally emaciated child as they ascend to the heavens. The oil on canvas version of this work was first exhibited in 1936 and is considered to be the first artwork ever created in response to the Holodomor. While that painting is now at the Holodomor Museum in Kyiv, the artist’s monumental 16 foot tall charcoal on paper rendition of the same image is in the UHEC Patriarch Mstyslav Museum collection.

We are extremely honored to have received grant funding from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities to create this exhibit. However, the grant conditions require that the UHEC provide half of the exhibition-related costs as an “institutional match”. Thus, we still have considerable expenses for the restoration of “Zemlia” and for the installation of the exhibit. We invite you to join us as an Exhibit Sponsor in order to help us cover these expenses.

Tax-deductible sponsorship opportunities range from the $100 Friends level to Platinum Sponsorship at $2,500. Sponsors will have their name featured prominently at the entrance to both the in-person and online exhibition, in the gallery guide, and at the exhibition opening. Sponsors will also be invited to a special, behind-the-scenes discussion with the curator about the making of the exhibition.

Thank you for your support and for remembering the voiceless victims of the Holodomor!

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