Summer Festival of Community Art in Ijevan

YEREVAN, AUGUST 13, ARMENPRESS: Community Art Summer Festival, which is entitled ‘Rendezvous on Borders’, will be held August 18-21 in Ijevan, province of Tavush. The festival is designed and conducted by the students of the ‘Designing and Covering Art’ educational project of Art Critics Association as a graduate work.

The program of the festival involves various events – exhibition, practical course, lecture-discussion, group discussion on the world symposium of sculpture, presentation of archive materials, separate presentations and artistic performances. The organizers say all the projects unite the interest in the social, historical, scale and image parts of the urban environment.

‘The festival has 4 main elements – continuation of the seminars, held earlier, exhibitions, exposition of art works, conclusion and presentation of the works, implemented within a year,’ said Nazaret Karoyan, art critic, chairman of the Art Critics Association. He stated at today’s meeting with journalists that the events are intended to be held in various places due to the collective and personal efforts of artists.

The main value and significance of the festival is the decentralization of art, according to Harutyun Alpetyan, student, organizer of the festival. He says this is the reason the festival is held in Ijevan.

Representatives of 20 countries will partake in the festival. The festival is being held under the auspices of Tavush Governor’s Office and Municipality of Ijevan, in partnership with YSU Ijevan branch and Tourism and Business Information Center of Ijevan.