Objectives
The arts reflect the past, enrich the present, and imagine
the future.
The Naregatsi Art Institute, an investment in
Armenia’s living cultural heritage, serves artists by
nurturing the expression of human creativity and national
artistic accomplishments.
The Naregatsi Art Institute was founded in Spring 2000 and
incorporated in Summer 2002. The goal of the Institute is
to establish a network for Armenian artists and to promote
them through exhibitions, concerts, publications, etc…
The Institute is dedicated to Armenian
Contemporary art in the following fields:
Art and Architecture: Painting,
Sculpture, Photography, Architecture
Performing Arts: Music,
Theater, Film
Literature: Poetry, Essay,
Fiction
About NAI
The Naregatsi Art Institute, incorporated in 2002, is a non-profit
organization dedicated to serving Armenia's existing cultural
heritage through supporting Armenian contemporary artists
and creating a forum in which the spirit of art and the common
voice can resonate freely.
By nurturing the expression of human creativity
and documenting artistic accomplishments, Naregatsi Art Institute
seeks to enrich the understanding and the exposure of Armenian
art today, the ancestry from which this art has stemmed, and
the future which creativity, social consciousness, and collaborative
energy will lead to.
Naregatsi Art Institute (NAI) is dedicated to
serving the spirit of art, and in so doing sets forth objectives
and goals based upon nobility and benevolence found at the
heart of the artistic aim.
The 11th century poet and thinker Krikor Naregatsi,
whose sense of spiritual purity serves as a source of guidance,
inspires our approach. By supporting and nurturing contemporary
Armenian artists we seek to preserve and strengthen our sacred
culture, which has the potential to exist as vividly in the
present as it did in historic dimensions.
We believe that the voice of art is one that surmounts spatial
and time based definitions, and it is through the resonance
of this voice that we seek to pay tribute to our cultural
past, while making head way into the future
Board of Directors:
- Garabed Haroutunian
- Saro Hartounian
- Arto Tcakmakjian
- Richard Asadourian
- John Hodian
- Hawk Hrair Khatcherian
- Sevag Ardzruni
- Nareg Hartounian
- Nara Avanesyan
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