Lilit Melikyan is an experienced artist/designer, specialized in textile printing and batik. Her works stand out with traditional Armenian cultural motives, which she applies in all modern batik techniques.
Lilit Melikyan is the director of Teryan Cultural Center, which is engaged in stylization of Armenian national garments and practices its key elements in the modern fashion industry.
Since 1998 she has been a member of the RA Designers Union, and a member of the RA Artists Union since 2011.
Ms. Melikyan has taken part in a number of exhibitions both in Armenia and abroad.
EDUCATION
1993-1998 ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY Faculty of Art Education Yerevan, Armenia
1995-1997 "DESIGN" STUDIO of the international public association of "DESIGNER'S UNION”, distance learning
1998-2002 LEADING SPECIALIST at GENERAL DIVISION of the CONSTITUTIONAL COUNT of the Republic of Armenia and Publishing Group
2003-2007 PRIVATE STUDIO of ARTIST-ARCHITECT Kristin Mkrtchyan based in France
January 17, 2005 BOARD MEMBER of "Teryan Cultural Center" NGO
2005-2009 PhD at the Institute of Art of the NATIONAL ACADEMY of Sciences of RA | (Research Director - Ararat Aghasyan, Director of the Institute of Arts, Doctor of Arts)
2013 CANDIDATE of Arts in "Fine Arts, Decorative-Applied Arts, Design" | Thesis topic: "Artistic-Applied Social Prerequisites for Design Formation in Armenia in 1960-80s"
WORK EXPERIENCE
May 21 – June 24, 2021 HEAD of "TASTE and SMELL of Artsakh" FESTIVAL | The project aims to promote the preservation of intangible cultural heritage at risk by presenting Artsakh cuisine, life, and crafts. | The program was implemented with the support of the RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports.
2021 COOPERATION with the Armenian APOSTOLIC CHURCH within the framework of a charity program | The beneficiaries of the program are 7 soldiers who were wounded during the 44-day war.
2020-Current LECTURER at the CHAIR of DRAWING | Faculty of Fine Arts | Armenian State Pedagogical Institute After Khachatur Abovyan
2020 CHAIRMAN of the PROFESSIONAL | "Drawing" | Subject Committee of the in-university admission examinations of the Ijevan branch of the "Yerevan State University" Foundation | Order 96-3, 03.07.2020
September 1, 2020 – June 5, 2021 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR at Department of Decorative Applied Arts | Faculty of Applied Arts at Ijevan Branch of “Yerevan State University” Foundation
June 1 – September 1, 2020 HEAD of EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM of "We are, our stitches" | The program is aimed at teaching, disseminating and transmitting forgotten Armenian sewing types | The program was implemented with the support of the RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports.
2020-2021 academic year MEMBER of the FINAL EXAMINATION COMMITTEE at Yerevan Agrarian University
2020 COOPERATION with "Armenian Caritas" charitable non-governmental organization in the framework of helping displaced Artsakh people after the 44-day war
2020 COOPERATION with the Armenian APOSTOLIC CHURCH within the framework of the charity program of "Artsakh People Are Making" | After the 44-day war, the displaced Artsakh people were provided with professional toolkits.
2019-2020 academic year MEMBER of the FINAL EXAMINATION COMMITTEE at Yerevan Agrarian University
April 10, 2019 CHAIRMAN of the FINAL TRAINING CERTIFICATION COMMITTEE of Bachelor's Degree Program in Applied Arts of Ijevan branch of the "Yerevan State University" Foundation | Order 59-11, 10.14.2019
July 20-21, 2019 PROJECT MANAGER of Program entitled “Cultural Crossroads” dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Hovhannes Tumanyan | All Armenian Poet and the 134th anniversary of Vahan Teryan, Armenian lyricist | The project was implemented in the Republic of Georgia with the support of the Ministry of Culture of RA.
2019-Current MEMBER of the ARTISTIC COUNCIL of the Yerevan Theater Of The Young Spectator
2019-Current COOPERATION with “Famiglia Insieme” organization in Italy
July 17-October 29, 2019 COOPERATION with “Armenian Caritas" charitable non-governmental organization in the scope of program entitled "Recognize. Defend. Implement”
November 6, 2018-Current SHAREHOLDER of "Tarazard" LLC
2018-Current LECTURER at the Faculty of “Design” of Yerevan Agrarian University
2017-Current PROGRAM ENTITLED "My Armenia” of Smithsonian Institution funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
2017-Current COOPERATION with "Tunyan" Charitable Foundation in the scope of cultural events organizing
2017-Current COOPERATION with Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of RA in the scope of joint cultural events, souvenirs design and production together with "Literature and Art Museum Named After Yeghishe Charents” SNCO
2017-Current COOPERATION with the National Sports Union of Jordan (Amman) in the scope of cultural events organizing
2017-Current COOPERATION with "KARIN" folk-dance group in the scope of cultural events organizing, designer of stage costumes
2016 FOUNDER of "Taraz Art" brand, Made in Armenia
2016 MEMBER of the group for the drafting the state educational standard for the qualification | 0214.01.01.5 "Painter-decorator" of the specialty | 0214.01.5 "Decorative arts and folk crafts" of secondary vocational education
September 13, 2012 - Current DIRECTOR of “Shshuk” LLC
January 17, 2005 BOARD MEMBER of "Teryan Cultural Center" NGO
2004-2018 LECTURER at the Faculty of Fine Arts Armenian State Pedagogical Institute After Khachatur Abovyan
2002 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of "Teryan Cultural Center" NGO
