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To  ensure the strong social dimension though art each year the Armenia Art Fair
incorporates  good will projects

Intra Mental Health Center

A special presentation “Art for Art’s Sak”  is a collaborative project with the Intra Mental Health Centre, which was presented at the Armenia Art Fair in 2019.

The project highlights and examines the importance and value of integrating Creative Arts Therapy into mental health services in general and in Armenia in particular.

A lecture by Khachatur Gasparyan, PhD, which examined the benefits of artistic expression, and how art is a key to a happier life. Through examples of therapeutic activities, it also showed how art creates a space to express oneself and fight loneliness.

Anti-Stigma Workshop and Installation

Armenian artist Samvel Saghatelian worked with Intra Mental Health Center clients and local artists over the course of several days to create a body of work that examines the human psyche and stigma of mental illness for exhibition at the Armenia Art Fair.

Know Waste Eiva Arts Foundation

Created by the Eiva Arts Foundation, a month long project which involved children in hands-on artistic workshops and lessons, teaching them about excess waste reduction through artistic means. Beginning in May 2019, famous Armenian contemporary artist, Arsen Navasardi, led the workshop with a group of nearly 50 children and involved them in both upcycled and recycled art activities. They learned how to give new life to old things and also use plastic waste to create new artforms. The workshops concluded in the creation of a sculpture, which was on display with an accompanying video piece at the Armenia Art Fair.

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