A Radio Garden in Gyumri. 29th Sept.

Hooray, it’s decided: Datscha Radio will broadcast from the garden of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Gyumi! If the weather is bad, there is also the option of broadcasting from the neighbouring metal workshop, but sunshine is more likely.
As graceful and tidy as this future broadcasting location presents itself: It wasn’t always like this. Until two years ago, there were several containers here that provided a temporary home for the victims of the 1988 earthquake.

Date: Sunday, September 29
Time: 12-15 h (CET); 14-17 h Armenia
Location: Garden of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Armenia
FM frequency (narrow-cast): 90.6 MHz
Co-Transmissions: Radio Antenna (Yerevan + Tbilisi); NN

Datscha Radio’s heartfelt thanks go to the director of the Academy, Vahagn Ghukasyan and Momik Vardanyan from Art Basis for this generously offered location!

About the Academy: Quoted from Art Space 22/01. Art and Education

In 1997, in the first academic year of the opening of the academy, there were only 3 specialties of fine arts, one chair and 9 students. There are currently 7 professions in the branch. Students can earn a bachelor's or master's degree in painting, graphics, sculpture, clothing modeling, decorative applied arts, design, art history, and theory. During its 25 years of operation, the Gyumri branch has had more than 2,000 graduates, many of whom are world-renowned artists, teaching, both in Armenia and abroad, working, holding senior positions, managing cultural institutions, foundations, museums, etc. Many of our graduates have started their own businesses - clothing studios, boutiques, decorative metal companies, design houses, Armenian eyewear brands, etc. One of the most important achievements of the Gyumri branch of the SAFA in recent years is its truly professional teaching staff. During these years, thanks to the efforts of the staff of the branch, the academy has been gradually replenished with modern laboratories of clothing modeling, decorative applied arts, non-ferrous metals, graphic printing and design. It is noteworthy that the Gyumri branch is the only university in the whole Transcaucasia where there is a forge, where students also learn the art of blacksmithing, preserving and developing the traditions of blacksmithing in Gyumri. Academy is also the only higher education institution in the Caucasus, where, in addition to classical graphic printing, alternative printing methods are cyanotype, resinotype, silk printing, etc.
                                                                                                                        Vahagn Ghukasyan

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