Slava Gerulak
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| Born | Yaroslava Gerulak May 5, 1933 Stopnica, Poland |
Slava Gerulak (born May 5, 1933) is a Ukrainian-American ceramic artist known for her sculpture based in New York.[1][2] In the mid-1950's she was part of the New York Group [Нью-Йоркська Група; Niu-Iorkska hrupa], a group of poets and artists, which developed spontaneously from friendships and discussions around the Students’ke slovo (Student Word) supplement to the Ukrainian American newspaper Svoboda.[3]
Gerulak was born in the town of Stopnica in southern Poland. She immigrated to the United States in 1950 from the DP Camp in Mittenwald, Germany. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and earned a BA from Sienna Heights College (1954) and an MA from Northwestern University (1959). From 1959 to 1962 she lived in Paris, settling in New York City afterwards.[4] She taught at Manhattan College in Purchase NY from 1955 to 1957.[5]
