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Project Save 50th Anniversary

Project Save is turning 50 in 2025!

After 49 years of selfless dedication to photography, social history, & Armenian cultural preservation, it’s time to come together & invest in our new leadership, vision, & growth. 

This is an exciting & positive but urgent crossroad. After all this time, there needs to be proper investment in Project Save’s short-term & long-term sustainability.  

Let’s honor founder Ruth Thomasian’s legacy (she’s turning 80!) by saving Project Save & making sure it’s sustainable & impactful for the next 50 years. Join us! 

By raising $250,000 by January 1st we will finally be able to invest in the important items below & work toward becoming self-sustaining. 

  • Processing & digitizing several Genocide-related collections (from Kharpert, Aintab, Marash, etc).
  • Investing in much-needed staff in archiving & development. Our new executive director has been doing everything alone! 
  • Exhibits & programming at our new location as well as various other museums & spaces regionally & internationally. 
  • Annual archival & photography workshops in Armenia to provide much-needed assistance to museums, libraries, & cultural workers there. 
  • Partnerships with The Boston Public Library, Smithsonian, Shoah Foundation, Armenia Tree Project, & the Griffin Museum.
  • Educational outreach to various schools & universities. 
  • Investing in making documentaries based on our immense archive of images. 

Other specific initiatives that can be sponsored:

  • 50th Anniversary Gala
  • Conversations on Photography series
  • Artist & Researcher in Residence program

You can also support us by joining our exciting new Board of Trustees and/or sponsoring the naming rights of our new gallery. Contact Dr. Arto Vaun to discuss further: arto.vaun@projectsave.org

Support us here. All donations are tax deductible.

Some of our major changes since 2021:

  • A new, spacious location with offices and a gallery space for exhibits and events!
  • Articles about Project Save in The Smithsonian Magazine, Boston Globe, and Acid Free.
  • New Advisory Board whose members are high-level experts from the Getty Museum, the Smithsonian, Oxford University, Library of Congress, Harvard University, Boston Public Library, and other institutions.
  • Conversations on Photography series of talks by photographers, researchers, and archivists from around the world.
  • Annual Artist & Research Residency for accomplished researchers and creators to engage with the archives and produce new work.
  • Beautiful new website to engage more with the public, researchers, educators, and artists.
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From Artsakh to Aleppo, history has been repeating itself lately.

With the tragic loss of Artsakh, people’s photographs were also lost. In an instant, thousands of photographs documenting many generations of vibrant Armenian culture and life on that land are gone. And once gone, such photographs–and the stories they tell–are irreplaceable.

Project Save is the largest and oldest organization in the world whose mission has been to preserve, catalog, and share photographs of the Armenian global experience. In our 48 years, never has that mission been more urgent and vital than right now.

Invest in our mission to preserve and tell the Armenian story through photographs–a universal story of survival, resilience, and rebirth. 

To support Project Save click here. 

 

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