Impressions from Ecole Superieure d’art et de design de Marseille, France
Karapet Haji-Aslanyan studied the third year of the Graphics academic program of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia at the Ecole Superieure d’art et de design de Marseille, France. We received a lot of praising and encouraging words about Karapet from the above-mentioned institution. Below we introduce Haji-Aslanyan’s impressions of the Marseille Art School…
Entrance exams are completed
Entrance examinations 2023 at State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia for 9 specialties, Bachelor programme in painting, sculpture, graphics, art studies, design, interior design, computer graphics, fashion design and applied arts are successfully completed…
Awarding ceremony of the “Man of God” exhibition
Yesterday, in the “Albert and Tove Boyajian” exhibition hall, the awarding ceremony of the competition exhibition entitled “Man of God”, which was opened here a week ago, was held by the initiative of “Metsn Nerses” charitable organization. The competition was held in three nominations: painting, graphics and sculpture…
“Man of God” exhibition-competition
Yesterday’s exhibition at the “Albert and Tove Boyajian” exhibition hall, entitled “Man of God”, is a competition with the participation of students of three educational programmes of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia: painting, sculpture and graphics. The initiative belongs to the “Metsn Nerses” charitable organization, whose 30th anniversary will be celebrated on June 29. The exhibition is a unique celebration of the cultural preferences of the founder of the organization, Archbishop Mesrop Ashchyan, and his philanthropic contributions in this field and, of course, is a tribute to his memory. In addition to the three prize places, each discipline has an encouraging prize to be handed and all in monetary forms…
Meetings at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design + Technology and SAFAA
Within the frames of Erasmus+ ICM programme meetings on sharing experiences were held at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design + Technology and at SAFAA. Mkrtich Ayvazyan, the Acting Rector of the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia and Ruzanna Minasyan, the head of the Department of Academic Programme Development of SAFAA were on a week-long visit to the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design + Technology, where a number of meetings with the institute’s top management and the representatives of various departments and the academic staff took place…
Defences of BA Diploma Works and Master’s Theses were held at the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia
On May 22-30, the defences of Bachelor’s diploma works and Master’s theses for the 2022-2023 academic year were held at the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia. The entire course of the defences was video recorded. The defences of all specialties of the Gyumri branch (except for “Arts”, which was also held at the SAFAA main branch) were held on May 31 at the Gyumri branch…
The Lost Drawings of Nagorno-Karabakh
The devastating effect of the 2nd Karabakh War in 2020 left traces to last for years. Life goes on, those memories haunt people like shadows, and the consequences deepen day by day. During the forty-four-day war, the world’s attention was again focused on our region, both in political and public spheres and in the press. Not long after the end of the war, two correspondents of the French weekly newspaper “La Croix”, Pierre Sautreuil and Thomas Guichard, visited Karabakh…
Armenian-Iranian cultural dialogue in Tabriz
Within the framework of the Partnership Agreement signed between the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia and Tabriz Islamic Art University, Iran, the Armenian-Iranian cultural dialogue was launched with the participation of the SAFAA former and current students. It was actualised by the efforts of Habib Didar, a representative of Tabriz Islamic Art University…
The SAFAA hosted the delegation of the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow
On May 11th and 12th, Aneta Sieniawska from the above-mentioned institutiondelivered a lecture at the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia within the framework of the Erasmus+ mobility programme concluded between the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. The lecture was entitled “Digital Graphics: 3D modelling”…
Impressions from the Catholic University of Linz, Austria
Lusine Hambardzumyan’s impressions upon return from the above-mentioned institution after a one-week lecturing entitled “Armenian Caricature in the 1920s” planned through April 24-28, 2023…
