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On Friday, February 21 gather for Ukraine: Sheltering in Place, a reception featuring poetry, music, and poster presentations marking the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighboring sovereign nation, Ukraine. Ukraine: Sheltering in Place brings together Luisa Muradyan, Julia Kolchinsky and Olena Mladenova, all Ukrainian-born artists currently living in the U.S. The exhibit Ukraine: Sheltering in Place features artwork by Olga Morozova and her students at the Kyiv National University of Technology and Design, made in Kyiv during the first year of the war on Ukraine in 2022. This installation will hang in Sullivant Hall on The Ohio State University campus February 17-28, 2025. Poster presentations feature Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme (GAHDT) graduate students from the special grants initiative Armed Conflicts and Im/mobility: The Courage, Creativity, and Resilience of People Remaining in Conflict and Disaster Zones. The two-year Armed Conflicts and Im/mobility project explored conflict and disaster zones across the globe, but the impetus for it came in great part from the Feburary 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Luisa Muradyan is originally from Odesa, Ukraine and is the author of I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated (Bridwell Press, 2025) When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2027), a collaborative collection with Julia Kolchinsky, and American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). She is the winner of the 2017 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize and a member of the Cheburashka Collective. Additional work can be found at Best American Poetry, the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, and the Georgia Review among others.
Julia Kolchinsky is the author of five poetry collections, The Many Names for Mother, Don't Touch the Bones, 40 WEEKS, PARALLAX (University of Arkansas Press, 2025) and When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2027), a collaborative collection with Luisa Muradyan. Her recent awards include Hunger Mountain's Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, Michigan Quarterly Review's Prize in Nonfiction, and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant. She is at work on a collection of linked lyric essays about parenting her neurodiverse child and the end of her marriage under the shadow of the war in Ukraine, Julia's birthplace. She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Denison University.
From Mariupol, Ukraine, pianist Olena Mladenova first studied at Donetsk Music Academy and continued at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. She currently lives in Columbus and is a member of the Ukrainian Cultural Association of Ohio.
The exhibit Ukraine: Sheltering in Place features drawings, paintings, reproductions and original art from the Olga Morozova “Art in a time of war: Sirens in Kyiv” project (Kyiv 2022). The exhibit will hang in the Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise Collaboratory in Sullivant Hall on The Ohio State University campus February 17-28, 2025.
This project is sponsored by the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme and the Mershon Center.
