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The file consists of documents related to parcels sent by Chester and Luba Kuc to Mykhailo Bilas to Ukraine, including orders and invoices from Orbit and Meest, and lists of sent items.

The sub-series contains catalogs of the artist’s exhibitions in Lviv and Kolomyia in 1984, [1990], and 1992 and a guide to the Truskavets museum named after him. The brochures have Bilas’s inscriptions to Chester and Luba Kuc. A number of materials are related to the exhibition of M. Bilas’s tapestries from Kucs’s private collection in Canada, such as the introduction of the artist in Ukrainian and English languages, list of the presented works and correspondence with Ukrainian organizations in Canada. The exhibition was held at the Edmonton Ukrainian National Federation (UNO) Hall in 2004.

The sub-series includes a selection of publications on M. Bilas, his works and exhibitions in newspapers and journals («Novi dni», “Narodna tvorchist ta etnohrafiia” and others) from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.

The main part of the sub-series constitutes numerous M. Bilas’s letters to Chester and Luba Kuc (1984-2004). The subjects of these letters are the artist’s works, his daily life, social and political news, and his plans for exhibitions in Canada. There is also a small number of letters from other individuals to Bilas and the Kucs in both Ukrainian and English. Chester and Luba Kuc sent a number of parcels to Bilas with tools for his artistic work, as well as food, and the collection contains orders and invoices with detailed lists of their contents.

The collection consists of materials pertaining to Chester and Luba Kuc's professional activities: Ukrainian folk dance, costumes, and embroidery.

This series consists of the correspondence from Mykhailo Bilas to Chester and Luba Kuc, information about an exhibit of Mykhailo Bilas' works that Chester and Luba Kuc put up in the UNO hall in 2004 (flyer, copy of tapestries, list of sale items, artist's biography), originals and copies of Bilas's works, as well as publications and clippings about M. Bilas.