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.

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 ...

Artist Anna Chychula, second from right, shows workshop attendees design elements in creating Ukrainian pysanky eggs at the Ukrainian National Museum. A collection of ornately decorated Ukrainian ...

Maria Fedachtchin’s fingers trembled a bit as she etched the first intricate lines of beeswax along the smooth, unblemished shell of an egg cradled in her palm. She’s learning to design pysanky, the ...

Put down that egg dyeing kit and come look at the eggs Carol Novosel creates using wax and dyes like her Ukrainian ancestors did. Novosel said she can create one of these intricately designed eggs, ...

If Ukrainian legend is to be believed, the fate of the world lies in the hands of those who continue the tradition of creating Pysanky Easter eggs. According to the legend, there lives a chained ...

On a sunny afternoon, in what seems like another world, I went to my friend Candace Cook’s house to make Ukrainian Easter eggs. It was a time when you could still visit a friend, though even then ...

“I’m just a mom of two young children,” said Ariane Rimawi, who is of Ukrainian descent. “What’s happening in Ukraine is breaking my heart. I cannot leave my children and fly to Poland and help. So, I ...

There is a legend Stephanie Cheeseman grew up hearing about Ukrainian eggs that she has thought about often lately. In it, an evil creature is held back from destroying the world by chains that bind ...

In the basement of an art center in Hamilton, where the only windows look out at concrete walls, Lori Kay Farr holds up a hollow egg. Standing in front of a dozen women, Farr tells them about her blue ...

Pysanky are raw eggs decorated using a wax-resist method. Shown here: eggs decorated by Jessie Crosby, an Orthodox Christian and pysanky enthusiast who taught a how-to workshop in Forest Grove in ...