Newark Artists Honored For Local Achievement

NEWARK, CA — Newark's Tetiana Taganska and Olga Tymoshchuk are two of seven artists honored for their achievements and contributions impacting the arts community and residents of Alameda County.

Taganska and Tymoshchuk are Co-Founders and Co-Directors of Imaginook, a creative art studio and community space in Newark. As art instructors at the studio, they provide year-round art classes for children and adults, youth summer camps, and student art exhibitions.

Imaginook also provides studio and workshop space, master art classes, exhibitions and events for artists in Newark and neighboring Fremont, Hayward and Union City, enhancing and providing a positive impact on the local art community.

Tetiana is on the Board of Directors of the Fremont Art Association and taught art classes through the organization. She studied fine art at Svyatoslav Brakhnov’s Atelier in Kiev, Ukraine, and has a degree in applied mathematics. She is an impressionist artist whose artworks have been featured in a number of exhibitions.

Olga is on the Board of Directors for Odyssey of the Mind, a K-12 program focused on imaginative problem-solving activities. Olga has a masters degree in corporate management and a certificate in ceramics. She is an artist who is focused on painting, sculpture and ceramics.

Both women have volunteered regularly in the arts, including the Fremont Cultural Arts Council’s Maker event, as well as Ohlone College’s “Ohlone Makes” event. They both judge art for the PTA Reflections school arts program.

The award winners will be honored by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors with commendations at 10:45 a.m. on Oct. 20. Because of COVID-19, the meeting will be closed to the public, but you may watch it online.

All seven of the recipients selected by the Alameda County Arts Commission for the 2020 Alameda County Arts Leadership Award:

• Jean Marie Durant
• Ron Lytle
• Michael Socrates Moran
• Usha Shukla
• Anuradha Suresh
• The team of Tetiana Taganska and Olga Tymoshchuk