The Hovhannes Sharambeyan Museum of Folk Arts is located on the outskirts of Yerevan, serving to preserve both tangible and intangible elements of Armenian cultural heritage through a rich collection of historic objects across all areas of Armenian folk art including textiles, woodcarving, and metal working. They also work to preserve traditions, sometimes hosting book […]
The National Gallery of Armenia, housed in a grand building on Yerevan’s Republic Square, offers a fascinating look at how Armenia’s art has evolved through the centuries from Early Christian art to the 20th century. Several galleries display Russian and other European art as well, highlighting the dialogues which have taken place between Armenia and […]
Centrally located in a historic building on Shota Rustavelli Avenue, the National Gallery is one of many museums that are unified under the Georgian National Museum. It is known for its collection of historic and contemporary Georgian art, from paintings and drawings to sculptures, as well as a number of original works by famed Georgian […]
Igrika Crafts is a family-run art studio based in Tbilisi which specializes in block-printed textiles with traditional Georgian folk motifs. They graciously offered to organize a block-printing workshop for my fellow SRAS Tbilisi study abroad participants to teach us more about their art as well as the Georgian history, culture, and folk art which inspires […]
Maia Tsinamdzgurishvili is a modern Georgian textile artist living and working in Tbilisi. I had a chance to visit with her in her apartment in Tbilisi in the hopes that I might learn not only about her own work, but about the state of modern textile arts in Georgia. During my time with Maia she […]
The Georgian State Silk Museum celebrates and supports sericulture (the process of making silk) as an act of biology, engineering, handicraft, and art. Its displays take you through the lifecycle of the silk-worm to the gathering, weaving, and dying of silk threads to the final cultural products sericulture produces. The facility also hosts a reference […]
