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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 9558558, member: 78949&quot;]I am sorry for being absent for so long <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> but Figtree3 solved the mystery quickly, well done, Fig! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, everything is right, she apparently was an emigrant Ukrainian artist living in USA, her hame was Motrya (or Motrja) Malyutsa-Yaniuk, and she was a member of the Committee for organising 5th Ukrainian Art Festival in New Jersey who&#039;s members had a meeting with the editors of Svoboda (Freedom) Newspaper on 18 April, and the festival was scheduled to start on 2 June of the same year (1979). The lady is shown on the photo Fig referred to, sitting at the left with her 4-year old daughter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently the Ukrainian emigrants in USA issued a daily newspaper in Ukrainian, the slogan of the newspaper&nbsp; (shown at the upper left corner on page 1) was &quot;Remember Ukraine!&quot; There is also reference to her as one of the organisers of 10th Ukrainian festival, in the same newspaper of 24 March 1984.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is another reference about this woman, from 1978, referred as Motrya Yaniuk, a member of the Union of American-Ukrainian Women, here</p><p><a href="https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/6790/file.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/6790/file.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/6790/file.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I guess Malyutsa is her maiden name and Yaniuk is her husband&#039;s family she added after marriage, as they are spelt with &quot;-&quot;. There is Ivan Malyutsa (nationalist and fighter for independent Ukraine, died in the German Army at Stalingrad) and Antin Malyutsa, famous Ukrainian painter and artist, who was forced to emigrate in USA after WWII and died in New York, he was very active member of the Ukrainian emigre society in USA. They were brothers, also the third brother, Stepan Malyutsa, was a famous Ukrainian musician. I suspect that Motrya had family ties with them, especially with Antin</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess the pottery can be dated around these years, and it is made by this Ukrainian artist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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