PYSANKA HTX
The Art of Traditional Ukrainian Easter Egg Writing
with Nestor Topchy & Iryna Petrovska Marchiano
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The Art of Traditional Ukrainian Easter Egg Writing
with Nestor Topchy & Iryna Petrovska Marchiano
A pysanka (Ukrainian: писанка) or pysanky (plural: писанки) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist method. The word pysanka comes from the verb pysaty, "to write" or "to in scribe", as the designs are not painted on, but written (inscribed) with beeswax
Nestor Topchy is a Houston-based painter, sculptor, installation and performance artist, who learned to write pysanky in childhood, with his mother and paternal family, who immigrated from Stalinist Ukraine as displaced persons following World War II.
Iryna Petrovska Marchiano, PhD is a Ukraine-born proud Houstonian, an engineer and a data analyst by day and an artist-of-all-trades by night, who found her true artistic calling in pysanky writing
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We’re passionate about sharing this art form with the public! You can explore feedback from our past students HERE, and check out the media coverage our classes have received over the years!
April 16, 2025
Pysanka Lecture @ Herb Society of America South Texas Unit
March 30, 2025
Private Pysanka Workshop
March 1, 2025
Pysanka Demo @ Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
February 23, 2025
Pysanka Workshop @ AvantGarden Houston
October 3, 2024
Pysanka Demo during Nestor Topchy Open Studio @ PAC Art Residency
September 6, 2024
Pysanka Workshop @ PAC Art Residency
May 23, 2024
Pysanka Workshop @ Ridna Shkola Ukrainian School of Houston
APRIL 6, 2024
Pysanka Demo @ Menil Neighborhood Community Day
March 3, 2024
Pysanka Workshop @ AvantGarden Houston
March 2, 2024
Pysanka Demo @ Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
April 3, 2023
Pysanka Demo @ Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
MARCH 19, 2023
Pysanka Workshop @ AvantGarden Houston
MARCH 20, 2022
Pysanka for Ukraine 8hr long Workshop-Fundraiser @ AvantGarden Houston
MAY 19, 2019
Pysanka Workshop @ AvantGarden Houston