For the nearly two-thirds of Ukrainians who identify as Orthodox Christians, Easter is known as Velykden, meaning “Great Day” in Ukrainian. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine calculates the date of Easter ...

Creating traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs is not for the faint of heart. The process can take two to four hours, even for the simplest eggs, instructor Bernadette Thorwart said Saturday morning in ...

On April 9, 1984, we did a story about a woman who created Ukrainian, or pysanky eggs. They’re commonly called Ukrainian Easter Eggs, though the art predates Christianity. (Easter in 1984 happened on ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While the Ukrainian eggs are less of a pagan offering and more of a classical art form these days, ...

For the third year in a row, The First Presbyterian Church in Elkhart held a workshop to teach the art of Ukrainian Easter Eggs also known as Pysanky eggs. Pysanky eggs are made by decorating a raw ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) --- A special art workshop in Green Bay this weekend is contributing to a good cause. St. Agnes Catholic Church hosted a Ukrainian Easter egg workshop today after a similar event ...

Effervescent color tablets aren’t the only way to dye Easter eggs.The Ukrainian art of egg decorating, pysanky, dates back more than 1,000 years.The intricate designs have symbolic meanings – varying ...

On a cold and snowy April morning at the Underwear Factory in Poughkeepsie, Ukrainian artist Vitalia Deriabina instructed a workshop of seven women in the art of writing “pysanky.” Pysanky is an ...

Effervescent color tablets aren’t the only way to dye Easter eggs. The Ukrainian art of egg decorating, pysanky, dates back more than 1,000 years. The intricate designs have symbolic meanings – ...