This afternoon at the Hammond Hall Art Gallery, there was an artist talk and reception featuring Hanna Melnyczuk’s “Don’t Close Your Eyes: Reactions to the War in Ukraine” which will be on display through Sunday, Oct. 15,
Melnyczuk discussed how she began creating these drawings upon Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in an attempt to show her personal attempts to process what is happening to the country her parents left in 1944. Influenced by her work on children’s books, the images in this collection show her struggle to understand the unfathomable acts of war that fill her mind.
