Tree Sculpture

Taras Levkiv was born on June 25, 1940, in the village of Mala Berezovytsya, now located in Zbarazh Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. Taras is an honored Ukrainian artist who specializes in ceramic art. He works on the joints of contemporary art and traditional folk crafts - pottery. Taras Leviv applies a wide range of techniques and materials of artistic ceramics. He is engaged in graphics, creates compositions in the technique of intarsia. On ІІІ All-Ukrainian symposium of ceramics in Opshnae (1999) he got I honor for decorative plastic work "Bilomorcanal". Museums of Lviv, Ternopil, Tbilisi, the Saints-Petersburg, Berlin, Prague and other cities show to their visitors the artist's works. Over 30 years Taras Bohdanovych is a head of Ceramics Department in Lviv College of decorative and applied arts named in I. Trush. He was a Deputy of Lviv regional administration of the First democratic convocation. Over 10 years T. Levkiv has worked at public principles as a manager of projects at the construction in Vynnyky of Autocephalous Orthodox Church of the Saint Volodymyr and the Saint Olga.