Dzvinka Hayda, Author and Illustrator

Photo from the Architectural Digest, June 25, 2024 After arriving in the United States on March 17, 1949, on the army ship General Hann,...

One of the crowning events in an artist’s life is a one-person exhibit of their art. And so, it came to pass for me. The opening...

When the Jenkins Group of Traverse City began their Moonbeam Awards program in 2007, I was awarded the Bronze Moonbeam Award for...

When I graduated from the Waldorf Institute of Mercy College with a degree in Waldorf Education, my aunt Daria Kozak gifted me The Children’s Hour , a book of children’s stories compiled in 1916. The Legend of the Dippe r, by American children’s author Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, was included in this compilation of stories. The story resonated deeply with me, so much so that I told it to my students throughout my entire teaching career. I could visualize, in picture form, each se