Ada Gabrielyan (born November 4, 1941) is an

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...

n art teacher and painter.

Life

Gabrielyan was born in

Gyumri Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...

. Born in 1941 in the Leninakan family of musicians. She graduated in 1965 from the

Yerevan State Institute of Fine Arts and Theater Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...

. Her portrait by Armine Galentz was exhibited. From 1977 to 1987, Gabrielyan taught at the

Armenian State Pedagogical University Khachatur Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU) ( hy, Խաչատուր Աբովյանի անվան հայկական պետական մանկավարժական համալսարան, ՀՊՄՀ), is a state university and higher educa ...

. She has taught painting, drawing and composition at the Pedagogical Institute after Abovyan. From 1991 to 2001, she taught "Armenian Ritual Clothes" in the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia. She also taught at the

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, University of Fine Arts. Since 1990, she has written about the theory of archaic art and its relation to contemporary art such as painting, graphics, embroidery.

References

1941 births Living people People from Gyumri 20th-century Armenian women artists 21st-century Armenian women artists {{Armenia-painter-stub