Behind the pop art icon Andy Warhol stood Julia Warhola (born Závacka), a resilient immigrant whose creativity found voice in art and songs. Far from being merely “the artist’s mother,” she embodied the hopes, memories, and identities of thousands of Slavic women who built new lives in challenging industrial conditions of Pittsburgh in the beginning of twentieth century.

This webinar is the third in a six-part series, The Arts of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, designed to support K-14 educators in bringing the arts of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia into their classrooms. During this session, we will learn about the Russian ballet as a powerful cultural force shaped by political, religious, and aesthetic pressures from the 19th to the 20th century. We will examine how ballet was viewed by critics, dancers, and administrators—as both an “impossible” art form and a near-religious practice of survival and expression.

Are you a past or present Engaging Eurasia Teaching Fellow? Have you participated in
the Heart of Silk Roads Study Trip hosted by the National Consortium for Teaching
About Asia (NCTA)? Do you want to teach about Central Asian societies, politics, and the
environment with the innovative tools of digital history?

Are you a past or present Engaging Eurasia Teaching Fellow? Have you participated in
the Heart of Silk Roads Study Trip hosted by the National Consortium for Teaching
About Asia (NCTA)? Do you want to teach about Central Asian societies, politics, and the
environment with the innovative tools of digital history?