• The Iconography of Catholicos’ Vestments in the Armenian Medieval Miniature Painting

    The Center for Armenian Arts, Glendale, California 250 N. Orange St., Glendale, CA, United States

    The book is dedicated to exploration of historical origins and development of ceremonial vestments for the pontiff of the Armenian Apostolic Church-the Catholicos. It explores the dressing ritual, protocol and the symbolism of it. In medieval manuscripts created in Armenia prior or in main book-making centers of the Armenian diaspora, there are portraits of famous […]

  • No Other Words: Haikus

    The Center for Armenian Arts, Glendale, California 250 N. Orange St., Glendale, CA, United States

    No Other Words by Karén Karslyan is an experimental collection of haikus composed exclusively of the words from Yeghishe Charents’ “My Sweet Armenia.” Through the haikus crafted with the technique of constrained writing, Karslyan engages in a dialogue with Charents, at times poking fun, and at times raising profound questions about contemporary matters, identity, recent […]

  • Tashtakerank (Burnt Ends)

    The Center for Armenian Arts, Glendale, California 250 N. Orange St., Glendale, CA, United States

    TASHTAKERANK (Burnt Ends) is a collection of short stories that echo Khoren Aramanu's memories from his early childhood to the present day (Iran, Armenia and the USA), imbued with subtle humor.  Khoren Aramouni Keshishyan is a writer, playwright, and translator. He was born in 1948 in Iran. Aramouni studied in the Armenian Studies department at […]

  • Diana Markosian’s FATHER

    The Center for Armenian Arts, Glendale, California 250 N. Orange St., Glendale, CA, United States

    Join Aperture and The Center for Armenian Arts for a conversation between photographer Diana Markosian and artist Ara Oshagan. They will discuss Markosian’s most recent publication, Father (Aperture, 2024), an intimate and engrossing diaristic portrayal of estrangement and reconnection, recounted through documentary photographs, family snapshots, text, and visual ephemera.  Diana Markosian: Father presents the Armenian […]

  • Cosmic Solitude: Meet The Author Yulia Grigoryants

    The Center for Armenian Arts, Glendale, California 250 N. Orange St., Glendale, CA, United States

    COSMIC SOLITUDE is an exploration of solitude and isolation in one of the Soviet Union’s largest cosmic ray research stations,  located in the remote mountains of Armenia. Once a place of great scientific importance, the station continues to operate today, though only three people live and work there year-round, surrounded by silence and vast, open […]

  • “Arev, Arev, Yek, Yek”: Hasmik Harutyunyan. Voice of Armenian Folk Tradition

    The Center for Armenian Arts, Glendale, California 250 N. Orange St., Glendale, CA, United States

    Hasmik Harutyunyan is one of Armenia’s most celebrated folk singers and a leading figure in the preservation and revival of traditional Armenian music. Born on December 26, 1960, in Yerevan, she has devoted her life to safeguarding Armenia’s rich musical heritage and sharing its depth, spirituality, and emotional power with audiences around the world. As a […]

  • “Lullabies” Lecture Performance & Conversation with Hasmik Harutyunyan

    The Center for Armenian Arts, Glendale, California 250 N. Orange St., Glendale, CA, United States

    Parents with children are especially welcome. Lullabies, a bilingual collection of traditional Armenian lullabies, is a gathering of valuable songs from different regions of historical Armenia, drawn from the repertoire of Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia, Hasmik Harutyunyan. The author has collected, classified, and annotated about 57 lullaby songs from printed and unprinted […]