Rain Bride ritual dolls exhibition kicks off in Yerevan
May 7, 2011 – 13:52 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net –
On May 7, the National Gallery of Armenia launched the opening of Rain
Bride ritual dolls exhibition.
Works of 45 artists were exhibited. According to exhibition organizer
Manan Arakelyan, the number of those wishing to participate was
increasing daily.
`The exhibition aims at increasing public awareness of long-forgotten
national dolls,’ she said.
The authors of the winning exhibits will be awarded with monetary
prizes of AMD 40 000, 30 000, 20 000 respectively. The winners will be
determined by the ethnographer Zhenya Avetisyan and painter Lusik
Aguletsi.
From: A. Papazian
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