Tetiana Kara-Vasylieva

Academician of the NAA of Ukraine

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Tetiana Kara-Vasylieva

    born in 1941

Art Historian

    Academician of the NAA of Ukraine (2017)

    Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2012)

    Honoured Artist of Ukraine (2007)

    PhD in Art History (1994)

    Professor (2011)

    Laureate of the Danylo Shcherbakivskyi All-Ukrainian Prize (1995)

Kara-Vasylieva Tetiana is a Ukrainian art historian, PhD in Art History, Academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Leading Researcher at the Rylskyi Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Tetiana Kara-Vasylieva was born in Kyiv and graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute. She is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and heads the sector of folk art of Ukraine at the Maksym Rylskyi Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is additionally a PhD in Art History and a corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine. In 2012, she was awarded the Shevchenko Prize in the nomination "Literature and Art History" for her publication The History of Ukrainian Embroidery. In addition, Kara-Vasylieva is the spouse of Ukrainian writer Yuriy Yarmysh and the mother of Ukrainian historian Oleksiy Tolochko and international economist Andriy Yarmysh.
She has an extensive scientific background in the field of Ukrainian embroidery and arts and crafts. Her publications include Poltava Folk Embroidery, Ukrainian Embroidery, Masterpieces of Church Embroidery of Ukraine, and others. She is also a co-author of some collective publications, including Artistic Crafts of Ukraine and History of Ukrainian Art.