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MY RELIC offers an immersive and contemporary view of Armenian culture, people, and adversities. Created by the She Loves Collective and the Armenian female artists who make up the collective’s membership, the exhibition is an impressive series of three pop-up exhibitions in Glendale storefronts.
ASBAREZ: SheLovesCollective Presents ‘My Relic’ Art Installation on Artsakh Ave. Storefronts
GLENDALE—As part of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Month, emergent international collective of established female artivists, SheLovesCollective, has created an interactive art installation called “My Relic.” This installation intends to activate our community to transform their relics of genocide into broadly construed creative objects and outlets for the collective mourning of trauma through transformation. “My Relic” will take place within 3 retail […]
Virtual Exhibition Highlighting Diasporan Armenian Responses to Occupied Artsakh Launched in April
https://asbarez.com/virtual-exhibition-highlighting-diasporan-armenian-responses-to-occupied-artsakh-to-launch-april-19th/GLENDALE—Glendale Library Arts & Culture and ReflectSpace Gallery present “Sites of Fracture: Diasporic Imaginings of Occupied Artsakh,” a virtual exhibition that brings together diasporan Armenian artists—from the United States, Canada, and Germany—to build collective counter-narratives to the forces of occupation and cultural erasure in the Republic of Artsakh. The exhibition launched on April 19.In September 2020, […]
ARMENIAN WEEKLY: MY RELIC galleries channel survival and rebirth from post-genocide trauma
GLENDALE, Calif.—She Loves Collective, an alliance of female artists who share a strong belief in the power of creating social change through art, presents their latest work MY RELIC, three pop-up exhibits from April 11th-April 25th. Following COVID-19 guidelines, these exhibits will be viewable from the windowscapes located at 117, 123, and 127 North Artsakh […]
GLENDALE ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION: Armenian Genocide Remembrance Month
As part of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Month, the Arts and Culture Commission presents “My Relic” by She Loves Collective which is an interactive art installation that intends to activate our community to transform their relics of genocide broadly construed into creative objects and outlets for the collective mourning of trauma through transformation.
CUARTO BLANCO: Q&A with SheLoves Collective
Adrineh Bagdassarrian (Founder) – Seeing and feeling the desperation of a community and country that had no support from the world. The desperate need to showcase and highlight this cause to a non-Armenian Community. She loves collectively deciding to speak up through art. We decided to raise awareness via non-Armenian media, and it worked.
LA TIMES: Armenian monuments are at risk in Azerbaijan. L.A. artists make their own to keep memory alive
If you stand at the corner of Artsakh Avenue and East Broadway in Glendale you’ll catch a glimpse of a surreptitiously installed public monument.
It shows a woman’s face veiled by lace — a still from Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 film, “The Color of Pomegranates” — along with the phrase “ARTSAKH ENDURES.” Emanating from the piece is a soulful mix of Armenian song
ART PAPERS: Memory Work and Militancy. Performing Feminist Diasporic Remembrance at a Distance
Memory Work and Militancy Performing Feminist Diasporic Remembrance at a Distance
HYPERALLERGIC: Outfitted With Symbolic Rifles, Female Collective Raises Awareness for a Largely Ignored War
Outfitted With Symbolic Rifles, Female Collective Raises Awareness for a Largely Ignored War
LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE: Why L.A.’s Armenian Community Wants You to Pay Attention to the Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh
Last week, Pasadena-based comedian Mary Basmadjian, organizer of the recurring showcase Armenian Allstars, got serious on Instagram. In a nine-and-a-half minute video, she explained the fears of diasporan Armenians as a military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues to cause death and destruction in the southern Caucasus region. “This is literally about existing,” she said. “They don’t want us to exist.”
LA WEEKLY: How a Group of Female Artists Used Social Media to Take Charge in L.A.’s Male-Dominated Art Scene
LA WEEKLY: How a Group of Female Artists Used Social Media to Take Charge in L.A.’s Male-Dominated Art Scene
ASBAREZ: ‘She Loves’ Art Exhibition Brings Together 45 Women Artists
ASBAREZ: ‘She Loves’ Art Exhibition Brings Together 45 Women Artists
