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Out-of school arts and cultural education is provided by different private, religious or community cultural organizations and for profit entities, many of which have inherited the infrastructures of Soviet houses of culture or reproduce them. However, most of them are concentrated in big cities and villages. Many regional towns and villages are deprived of such possibilities because of dilapidated or eliminated infrastructures. Currently there are a number of community infrastructural development projects, subsidized by the government that are focused on renovation of Houses of Cultures and turning them into multifunctional cultural centres, able to provide out-of-school cultural education to children... read more →

There are a lot of opportunities to receive higher arts education in Armenia in different specialties of art and design. The following institutions provide degrees in the arts: State Art University State University of theatre and cinematography State Conservatory Yerevan St. Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts Gyumri State Music College named after Kara-Murza Yerevan R. Melikyan State Music College Yerevan State University of Architecture State Pedagogical University Also, art studies are taught in the Yerevan State University as an academic and research discipline. All these higher education institutions have been reformed in correspondence with the Bologna process (since 2010).

Since 2018, a new education strategy has been developed and tested in Armenia. On the basis of this strategy, the education development programme for 2022-2030 was accepted in October 2022.  It contains a number of serious transformations in terms goals, methodologies, institutional and infrastructural capacities, education and knowledge standards, quality of personnel, and transparency of educational processes[1]. Currently, application of new standards, requirements and the institutional capacity improvement are in progress, although their introduction is gradual and largely discussed by the professional and beneficiary communities, media and social networks.  Along with institutional, ideological, programmatic and methodological changes, the new system... read more →

Art, predominantly drawing and applied arts, is being taught at secondary school level from first to seventh grades. Lessons in theory, history of music and basic singing are scarce. No playing musical instruments are taught in public secondary schools.  Instead, other educational institutions such as houses of cultures and art schools offer a wide range of art specialties and musical skills. Most of them have charges, but the fees are not very high and are generally available to the lower middle-class families.   According the defined culture development vision of the government, a number of programmes promoting the connection between... read more →

The main goals of state policy in the field of cultural education are: Regulation of the legislative field of artistic education Identifying the creative potential of gifted children and ensuring the full implementation of that potential Ensuring the normal operation of artistic educational institutions by replenishing the material and technical base and musical instruments, implementing educational works, developing and publishing new educational programmes and manuals. Ensuring access to learning within extracurricular art education and aesthetic education Implementation of training and requalification of specialists in the field of culture by studying international experience and introducing new professions in accordance with current... read more →

Some policies and programmes have been described in previous chapters 5.1 and 5.2.

Table 3: People who participated in or attended a certain cultural activity during the last 12 months in [Armenia] (in % of the population, over 3 available years)   2018 2019 2020 Activities heavily subsidised by the state Theatre 564.1 365.5 196.3 Opera performances N/A N/A N/A Zarzuela N/A N/A N/A Dance N/A N/A N/A Concerts of classic music 749 706 104 Libraries 455.7 456.7 303.2 Museums 2921.6 2366.1 704.2 Monuments N/A N/A N/A Cultural centres N/A N/A N/A Activities without large public subsidies Cinema N/A N/A N/A To read books not related to the profession or studies N/A N/A... read more →

Support to professional artists is made through state grants or scholarship initiatives (see Chapter 7.2.3) and private funding (see Chapter 7.3). Besides, some private iniatiatives can be mentioned such as the Armenia Art Foundation (AA Foundation) is an independent non-profit organization aiming to support the development of contemporary art in Armenia, established in 2016 by David Nazaryan and Rafael Nazaryan. The mission of the Foundation is to support professionals working in Armenia in the field of contemporary art, and to unlock their creative potential both in the country and abroad.[1] [1] http://foundationaa.com/

Grants are one of the important tools of cultural policy (D. Adams, A. Goldbard)[1], which are characteristic mainly of liberal models, such as liberal (M. Dragièeviæ-Sešiæ)[2], market (A. Wiesand)[3], or the state as an encouraging model. We can state that after the Velvet Revolution, grants and scholarships became one of the important tools. If in the past the culture support policy used state-financed orders as a main tool of development of culture, then after 2018, cultural programmes and projects in state policy began to be financed and developed through grants. Since 2018, many grants have been announced for libraries, museums,... read more →

There are no specific funds for supporting creators in any sphere of art.