YARDLEY, Pa -- Basia Andrusko has been writing Pysanky since she was a child, etching ornate designs on everything from chicken, finch and quail eggs to ostrich, emu and rhea eggs. Pysaty comes from ...

Let's talk about a beautiful Easter tradition that many Americans may not know about: painting pysanky eggs! This craft is probably unfamiliar to most families, who have their own Easter egg rituals.

Traditionally, pysanky were decorated out of sight, finished eggs kept covered in baskets until they were blessed by a priest and sent home as good omens for the year ahead. To hear Nina ...

With every pysanky class Tammy Budnovitch teaches, she ensures that the Ukrainian craft passed down to her continues. “There are so many traditions that our ancestors have brought over that are dying ...

In pysanky, the colors and designs carry meaning and call out to the gods and goddesses for health, fertility, love, wealth and much more With Easter approaching this Sunday, and amid the ongoing war ...

Jenny Santa Maria decorates and egg and teaches Pysanky - also known as Ukrainian eggs, at a class at Calgo Gardens, in Howell, N.J. March, 27, 2022 Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Jenny Santa ...

They’re not your ordinary dyed Easter eggs. About a dozen crafters, many of them novices, came to Greensburg on Saturday to try their hands at turning white eggshells into intricately designed, ...

The Audubon Community Nature Center is presenting a class on Pysanky egg decorating on Saturday, March 23. The class is an opportunity to learn the Ukrainian and Polish egg decorating technique, as ...

After learning about a traditional Ukrainian art form during library and art classes, second-graders at Hampton’s Central Elementary School were paid a visit on April 13 by local artist Laurie ...