Archive for August, 2015
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The Armenian orphans who became Painters
Professor Levon Chookaszian Director of the UNESCO Chair of Art History at Yerevan State University Sunday August 23, 2015, 4:00 P.M. Ararat-Eskijian Museum—Sheen Chapel 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 The Armenian orphans who became painters had survived miraculously the Armenian Genocide and grew up in different orphanages and a good number of them became well known painters and […]
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A Conference on Armenian Photographers: The Eyes of Our Culture
This conference is dedicated to the memory of museum patron Hasmik Mgrdichian Armenians have been the dominant, native-born photographers in the Middle East since this new technology made its way east from Europe during the second half of the 19th century. This day-long conference at the Ararat-Eskijian Museum will focus on historic and contemporary Armenian photographers […]
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Orhan’s Inheritance
Sunday, September 20, 2015, 4:00 p.m. Ararat-Eskijian Museum—Sheen Chapel 15105 Mission Hills Road Mission Hills, CA 91345 Orhan’s Inheritance is a book with a mission, giving a voice to history’s silent victims… When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather, who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the […]