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 […]
In 2018, doctors in Montreal began prescribing visits to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) for patients experiencing depression, anxiety, and other health issues. This innovative approach to mental health treatment was launched under the initiative of the MMFA in collaboration with Médecins francophones du Canada (MFdC). The program allows physicians to provide patients […]
Taleen Voskuni’s Lavash at First Sight (2024) is a funny and lighthearted sapphic romance about two Armenian-American women roped into promoting their respective Armenian food companies at a food-packing conference in Chicago offering a chance to win a Super Bowl advertisement slot. The two are just hitting it off when the parents of one recognize […]
The Tbilisi History Museum is a quick peak into the city’s 19th century past that helps solidify its importance as a commercial hub at the cultural crossroads of the Persian, Ottoman, and Russian empires. Housed in a historic building with other worthwhile museums and telling its story through models, life-size dioramas, historic photographs, and other […]
Two visitors had two very different experiences at the same museum – visiting just days apart. The Museum of the History of Georgian Medicine examines Georgia’s long history through the context of medicinal practices. Along the way, we learn quite a lot of Georgia’s identity and even genetic makeup. This particular museum is a reminder […]
Gori, located a ninety-minute drive from Tbilisi, may not catch a visitor’s eye at first. However, the town is forever cemented in history as the birthplace of one of the most well-known leaders in world history: Joseph Stalin. Born Ioseb Jughashvili, Stalin spent the first sixteen years of his life in Gori. While Gori hosts […]
