Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna, is an oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a population of 1,351,822.
Kosiv is a city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Kosiv Raion (district). Kosiv hosts the administration of Kosiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 8,351 Its distinctive ceramics were inscribed to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2021.
Bohorodchany is an urban-type settlement in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located several miles from the administrative center of the oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk. It hosts the administration of Bohorodchany settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 8,234.
Vorokhta is an urban-type settlement located in the Carpathian Mountains on Prut River and is part of Nadvirna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Historically, it is a tourist spa town and later was also turned into a ski resort with several ski-jumping ramps (Avanhard). Vorokhta hosts the administration of Vorokhta settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 4,207 ; due to a constant flow of tourists, its population almost year-round is bigger.
Talavera pottery is a Mexican and Spanish pottery tradition from Talavera de la Reina, in Spain. On 2019, it was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Pysanka Museum is a museum of pysanka located in Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was opened on October 26, 1987. The current Pysanka Museum building was built in 2000 in the western Ukrainian city of Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivska Oblast. Previously, the pysanka collection had been housed in the Kolomyia church of the Annunciation. The museum is part of the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya Folk Art.
Fedir Ivanovych Danylak is a dancer, balletmaster, choreographer and artistic director of the Barvinok Ukrainian School of Dance in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
The Art Museum of Prykarpattia, originally the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Art Museum is a regional art museum located at 8 Maidan Andrey Sheptytskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in the former Church of Virgin Mary. It has one of the best collections of local religious art, and specializes in displaying works by local artists.
Lviv National Academy of Arts is a higher education establishment in Lviv, Ukraine.
Roman Apollonovich Simovych was a Ukrainian composer, educator and theoretician.
Halyna Olexandrivna Zubchenko was a Ukrainian painter, muralist, social activist and member of the Club of Creative Youth. She joined the Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1965.
The Ukrainian sovereignty referendum was conducted on March 17, 1991, as part of the first and only Soviet Union referendum. Throughout the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, voters were asked two questions on remaining part of the Soviet Union on New Union Treaty terms. Most voters supported the proposal, however, in the pro-independence Oblasts of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Ternopil, voters opted for independence as part of an additional question.
Persian pottery or Iranian pottery is the pottery made by the artists of Persia (Iran) and its history goes back to early Neolithic Age. Agriculture gave rise to the baking of clay, and the making of utensils by the people of Iran. Through the centuries, Persian potters have responded to the demands and changes brought by political turmoil by adopting and refining newly introduced forms and blending them into their own culture. This innovative attitude has survived through time and influenced many other cultures around the world.
Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take varied forms, including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is a visual art. While some ceramics are considered fine art, such as pottery or sculpture, most are considered to be decorative, industrial or applied art objects. Ceramic art can be created by one person or by a group, in a pottery or a ceramic factory with a group designing and manufacturing the artware.
Ivan Ivanovich Levynskyi was a Ukrainian-German architect, teacher, businessman and public figure.
Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit (1927–1998) was a Ukrainian Hutsul artist, writer, folk writer, philosopher, folk scientist, ethnographer and dialectologist. She was known as "Homer Hutsul."
Yaroslav Melnyk is a Ukrainian philologist., linguist, Slavic scholar, doctor of philology, in November 2014 he received the title of professor at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Department of General and German Linguistics. In 2014, he received the Medal of Pushkin from the President of the Russian Federation for a major contribution to strengthening cooperation and developing scientific and cultural relations.
Alexander Stovbur was a Ukrainian artist, known for his abstract minimalism. He was one of the active participants in the Odesa non-conformist movement. Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Rostyslav Lyubomyrovych Derzhypilsky is a Ukrainian theater director and actor, People's Artist of Ukraine, and the artistic director of the Ivano-Frankivsk Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko.
