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

The sub-series consists of Mykhailo Bilas's drawings and sketches, drafts of his tapestries. They were mostly created during the late 1980s-early 2000s (1989-2003) with a few samples from the early 1970s. Bilas’s works depict scenes from everyday life and holidays rituals. The clothes of his characters show the regional variety of Ukraine. The pictures were sent to Chester and Luba Kuc and on the back of many sketches one can find Bilas's notes and full letters to them. The materials are characterized by detailed descriptions of colors and materials. Сollection also contains photo slides (“clichés”) of Bilas's works.

Ten attendance books of unknown organizations, presumably of dance groups. One book has a mark "Cheremosh" (n.d.).

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 series consists of Biographical information, mainly of Chester Kuc, obituary. Also contains a series of studio photographs of Chester and Luba Kuc's wedding.

Variety of folk dances descriptions with music sheets.