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SIXTH ANNUAL CARPATHO-RUSYN EVENT AT THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM TO FOCUS ON
THE
ROLE OF WOMEN

(Pittsburgh, PA) . . . May 28, 2003...The Andy Warhol Museum will host
the
Sixth Annual Carpatho-Rusyn Event, Saturday, June 21, 2003 from 12
p.m.- 4
p.m. This annual celebration, held in collaboration with the
Carpatho-Rusyn
Society since 1998, presents the living arts of contemporary
Carpatho-Rusyns
(people from the Carpathian Mountain region of Eastern Europe)
alongside the
art and life of Andy Warhol, one of the most influential 20th century
artists of Carpatho-Rusyn decent. This year's multi-media event,
Warhol's
Women, focuses on contemporary aspects of the women in Warhol's life,
especially his mother, Julia Warhola. The celebration will feature
film,
music, dance, talks, and hands-on projects. Homemade chicken soup, made
from
Julia Warhola's special recipe, and a variety of traditional
Carpatho-Rusyn
foods will be served in The Warhol Café.

Warhol and his mother
At 1 p.m. in the theater, Warhol's 1966 film, Mrs. Warhol (67 min.)
will be
shown. This rarely seen film depicts Warhol's mother, Julia, as she
moves
around the house cooking, ironing and talking. Julia always played an
active
role in her son's art. She encouraged his drawing and coloring and
bought
him a camera and film projector when he was a child. In 1952, she moved
to
New York to take care of Warhol and he soon enlisted her florid
old-world
penmanship in the texts for his illustrations. She lived with Warhol in
New
York until 1971, when she returned to Pittsburgh. Julia died the
following
year, and in 1974 Warhol lovingly depicted her in a pair of posthumous
silkscreen portraits that are now in The Warhol's permanent collection.

Music and Dance
This year's musical and dance performances, composed for and about
women,
will feature the nationally known and female-led Slavic band, Harmonia.
The
Slavjane Rusyn Folk Ensemble of McKees Rocks, PA will present several
dance
compositions.

Talks
Several generations of women from the Warhola family will talk about
their
personal lives as Rusyn women in Pittsburgh. They will also discuss
Julia
Warhola, the relationship Warhol had with his mother, and the role of
Rusyn
culture in his early upbringing.

Art-making
The Museum's Weekend Factory (hands-on art activities every Saturday
and
Sunday) will be focusing on Andy Warhol's silk-screening technique,
using
images of Julia Warhola. Rusyn-American artist Helen Timo of
Bentleyville,
PA will give a demonstration of the Rusyn art of pysanki egg-decorating
and
lace maker Mary Gido will demonstrate the techniques of her traditional
craft. Bonnie Balas of Uniontown, PA will demonstrate Rusyn
woodworking.

Performance
At 3 p.m. in the Museum theater, actors will perform excerpts from Anna
Walko's all-woman play from the 1970s entitled "Women's Lib." Walko is
the
acclaimed Rusyn-American author of the book Eternal Memory and the play
was
the first play ever written by a woman in the Rusyn language in
America.

The Carpatho-Rusyns
The Carpatho-Rusyns are a small East Slavic ethnic group indigenous to
the
Carpathian Mountain region of East Central Europe. Today,
Carpatho-Rusyn
territory falls within the borders of Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine,
Hungary and
Romania. Approximately 700,000 Americans are of Carpatho-Rusyn descent
with
the largest concentration of these people (1 out of every 10 U.S.
Rusyns)
living in Western Pennsylvania. The Carpatho-Rusyn Society is a
national
cultural organization based in Pittsburgh with chapters in New York/New
Jersey, Cleveland, Bridgeport, Washington D.C., Erie, and Tucson. For
more
information about the Carpatho-Rusyn Society visit
www.carpathorusynsociety.org <http://www.carpathorusynsociety.org>


The Andy Warhol Museum receives state arts funding support through a
grant
from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a
federal agency. Programs at The Warhol in 2003 are supported, in part,
by a
grant from The Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, Inc.

Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhol's birth,
The
Warhol is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the
world.
The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie Museums of
Pittsburgh.
Additional information about The Warhol is available at www.warhol.org
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Phone:  412.237.8300
Hours: Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat, and Sun 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Fri 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Mon closed
Good Fridays - Every Fri, 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. $3 cover
Admission: Members - free, Adults - $8
Sr. Citizens -$7, Children/Students - $4
The Warhol Store/The Warhol Café - free


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the warhol:
Gina Frey
Communications Associate
117 Sandusky Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
T 412.237.8339
F 412.237.8340
E freyg@warhol.org
W www.warhol.org
W www.warholstore.com
The Andy Warhol Museum
One of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
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