Olesya Viktrova flew from Princeton, N.J., to come to this year’s International Folk Art Market. But she wasn’t coming to shop for art or jewelry — she and a team of friends are providing interpretation for the market’s three groups of Ukrainian artists.
Viktrova, originally from Ukraine, has volunteered as an interpreter at the market for the past several years in a group working with people from Central Asia, but it was a dream of hers to create a team specifically for Ukrainian.
“We need the world to see us and see our culture because right now, it’s being destroyed,” said Viktrova, who on Friday was helping translate for Ukrainian iconographer Tetyana Skoromna.
