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Title
Separate Ways, by Vira Hladun-Goldmann
Description
Widely known as the woman who won the largest after-trial equitable divorce distribution in American history, Vira Hladun-Goldmann was born to Ukranian parents in Rochester, New York. She attended Eastman School of Music and Brockport Teacher’s College, and upon graduation, taught grade school for seven years. After marriage and the birth of her daughter, she left teaching but continued to tutor, specializing in children with reading disorders. She also began a second career as restorer of 18th and 19th century American homes, and in 1965 founded Hladun-Goldmann Ltd. Her painstaking restorations, rich in period detail, have been featured in some of the nation's finest shelter magazines, and she is among the country’s premier collectors of 18th and 19th century American decorative arts and furniture.
Her most recent work has been philanthropic and cultural. She founded the Vira Hladun-Goldmann Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting cultural literacy and humanitarian and educational interests, with a particular emphasis on Ukraine. She also supports a variety of scholarship initiatives dedicated to allowing Ukrainian students the opportunity to study in American universities.
A staunch advocate of democratic ideals around the world, Vira Hladun-Goldmann also serves as an advisor to the EastWest Institute, an independent European-American non-profit organization founded to transform the political and social situation in the transitional countries of Central Europe and Eurasia. Among her other affiliations are memberships in The Education Committee of the Museum of American Folk Art; the Council at The American Museum in Britain; the Visiting Committee of the Harvard-Ukrainian Research Institute, and the Collectors Circle at the Winterthur Museum. She is a William Bryant Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She currently divides her time between New York, London and Washington D.C.
Contact
- Hladun-Goldmann, Vira
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- New York NY
- United States 10022
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- 212-355-0885
