“Yuri Yanchyshyn, a conservator of wooden artifacts and a researcher and scholar, has been volunteering with the project. He recalled being “dumbfounded” the first time he entered a wooden tserkva. The churches are an example of vernacular, or folk architecture, he said, built by local parishioners and craftsmen. Many have no nails and are held together with either pegs or mortise and tenon joinery. “
On October 3, 2024, Yuri Yanchyshyn, Fulbright Specialist and Scholar, gave a Ukrainian language presentation on “An Introduction to the Microscopic Wood Identification of Works of Art” at the Lviv Polytechnic National University in Lviv, Ukraine. This lecture builds on the knowledge presented during his lecture on “The Structure and Properties of Wood” of February 4, 2024. A handout accompanying this talk is available here
On October 3, 2024 the Ukrainian language edition of The Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture was presented at the Lviv Book Forum. Originally written by Michelle Marincola and Lucretia Kargere, the book was published to wide acclaim by Getty Publications in 2020. The presentation was hosted at the National Museum of Andrij Sheptytsky in Lviv, Ukraine, by Oksana Bila. It brought together Lydia Lykhach, the Chief Editor of RODOVID Press (the Ukrainian language publisher), the translation editorial team, and guests.