Mkrtich Tonoyan, the chair of Akos Cultural NGO, was awarded CEC ArtsLink fellowship 2012 and will be in USA from the 8^th October until the 5^th December, 2012.

Experience the work of young Armenian Artist, Vahag Hamalbashyan, at a new exhibition in the School of Design.

Vahagn is one of a new generation of Armenian artists and his work, influenced by Pop, is collage, grafitti and figurative images, over-painted à la Sigmar Polke on other images / panoramas.

The exhibition is in the School of Design's Corridor Gallery, 30 April - 4 May, with the opening event Tuesday 1 May.

Everyone is Welcome.

Visual artist Vahagn Hamalbashyan was selected as the 1st artist to participate in the new exchange project between Leeds and Yerevan, through our organisation “Akos” and the School of Design, University of Leeds, from the 16^th April to the 7^th May, 2012.

We hope to continue with this exchange into the future. 

Armenian young emerging artist Eliza Ghazanchyan received scholarship from Cló in the framework of Samkura project as residency exchange butween Cló & ACOSS, which allows her to be an artist in residence at Cló Ceardlann for up to 3 months period, from March 21 to June 6, 2012.