Proceeds from the Immersive Shevchenko exhibition will be distributed to the Red Cross and National Bank of Ukraine Fund.
Visitors at the immersive Taras Shevchenko experience. Photo courtesy Carol Fox and Associates Public Relations.dedicated to the work of Taras Shevchenko , the Ukrainian poet and artist who is credited as a founding figure in the country’s cultural history, is coming to six North American cities.
The experience was first opened to the public in the port city of Odessa last year in a design managed by Lighthouse Immersive producer Valeriy Kostyuk in coordination with a team of Ukraine-based curators and consultants. Kostyuk also secured the cooperation of the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv, which shared images of the artist’s artworks for the exhibition.
The show, which was visited in Odessa by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, will now be staged in Toronto, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston beginning March 15. Shevchenko, who was born into serfdom, was released in 1838 while completing his studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art, according to Lighthouse Immersive.