Featured Speakers:
Levon Kafafian (Artist)
Marie Aude-Baronian (University of Amsterdam)
Date: Thursday March 12, 2026
6:00 PM EST | 4:00 PM PST
Location:
University of Michigan
Weiser Hall 500 Church St. Ann Arbor, MI
About:
For the 2026 Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Distinguished Lecture, artist Levon Kafafian, with visual culture scholar Marie-Aude Baronian will host a salon-style discussion on the foci and output of Kafafian’s practice through the metaphor of weaving as world-building. The conversation will revolve around the central place of textiles in Kafafian’s work and the possibilities inherent in communicating through textile media. Threads of discussion will examine how they navigate Armenian-ness through materiality and what emerges when invoking Armenian material culture traditions and iconographies into a distinctly darorinagvadz (queered) artistic production. Threading the Tapestry for a Future Armenia reflects upon the possibility of making an Armenian future through creative practice.
Co-sponsors:
Center for Armenian Studies
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
Institute for the Humanities