Beyond Greener Grass: A Drawing Response by Alevtina Kakhidze

ArtsLink Assembly: Beyond Greener Grass, on May 23 & 24, 2025, at the Jam Factory Art Center in Lviv gathered key artists and cultural leaders in Ukraine and those displaced abroad. The Assembly was a platform for sharing critical ideas, building networks of support, exploring implementation plans and initiating a new cultural ecology for Ukraine and its new diaspora.

Throughout the two day event Ukrainian artist, event speaker and ArtsLink alum Alevtina Kakhidze made a series of spontaneous drawings as the issues and ideas were being discussed during the sessions. Working with markers on an easel pad, Alevtina’s witty and inspired art works added incisive comment and poignant reflection to the discussions.

During the Assembly a call to support a new local museum initiative in Lviv prompted Alevtina to offer the drawings for sale, raising over 18000 UAH for the cause.

All images copyright Alevtina Kakhidze

ArtsLink Assembly: Beyond Greener Grass
Lviv, May 23 & 24, 2025

A Drawing Response

Alevtina Khakhidze

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From left to right:

1. Decolonization Guide. Points of view of a former empire (British) and a former colony (Ukraine).

2. 3 years for 10,000 words

3. We all f*cked up!? War 2014-2025

4. Transnational relation

5. To profit from our great war

6. Future cultural recovery. Zero.

7. After the air raid siren we continue. It was the russian MiG airplane.

8. Culture is not edible but we are hungry for art

9. I don’t understand Vanya’s art

10. I am not an encyclopedia

11. Ukrainians: we all f*cked up

12. 2025 calendar. Ukrainians are people first of all! Art from Ukraine is a rocket.

13. Writer from North America: Oh so scary here.

JUNE 2025

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