Ani & Narod Memorial Fund Inc

Armenia's Arts Library. The program aims to jumpstart Armenia's first Arts Public Library encompassing books on performing and visual arts. Public Arts education is important because it builds bridges across cultures, contributes to developing the creative economy in Armenia, and gives citizens tools to engage with the modern world. Currently Armenia's libraries have been neglected since the fall of the soviet Union.The program is organized by phases. The initial phase in which ANMF will participate will (a) collect arts books from the Armenian Diaspora, foreign embassies in Armenia, and other Art related foundations regionally and internationally. (b) establish a cataloguing system for the library by hiring a librarian in order to catalog all the received books (c) engage an art curator/director to develop initial public programming and a plan for the library's development. As in the past, the ANM Foundation does not intend to sustain the program in the long term, but rather intends t