Sergiy Mykolayovych Pogonets’ and Svitlana Fedorivna Pogonets’
Education:
Mr. Sergiy Mykolayovych Pogonets’ is an engineer-mechanic. Mrs. Svitlana Fedorivna Pogonets’ is an accountant. They studied the pottery business from Mr. Semen Grygorovych Kovtun, who is a grandfather of Mrs. Svitlana Fedorivna Pogonets’. Mr. Sergiy Mykolayovych Pogonets’ is a descendant of the Kryshynets’ki famous potters-masters family, because his grandfather, Mr. Gavryl Kasiyanovych Pogonets’, as well as, his uncle, Mykolai Gavrylovych Pogonets’, were the potters.
Work experience and former projects:
They are in the pottery business since 1992. Mr. Sergiy Mykolayovych Pogonets’ makes the ceramics products with the use of the potter’s wheel; Mrs. Svitlana Fedorivna Pogonets’ creates the decorations and paintings. During the thirty years of their creative work, the twenty all-Ukrainian and international personal exhibitions such as the personal pottery art exhibition at the Vinnytsia regional art museum in 2017 were conducted. Mr. Sergiy Mykolayovych Pogonets’ and Mrs. Svitlana Fedorivna Pogonets’ are the winners of the different regional, all-Ukrainian and international competitions. They are the members of the Ukraine national folk art masters union. They are the Podillya ceramics researchers. The masters have created all the possible models of the bowls from the Podillya region during their creative work. The Kryshynets’ki bowls take a special place in the creative work by the masters. They began a revival of the Bar ceramics products unique style after the participation at a business meeting by the potters in the Town of Bar, which was conducted in the frames of the «The Bar ceramics traditions revival» project under a support by the Ukraine culture foundation in 2018.