AIRSA

Visual Arts Society (N.G.O.)

About:

Airsa Art and Tought Society is a Non-governmental Organization which was founded on 2.6.2007 under the registration no. 4.7.9.7.3/1.86 and was register under the number 42-100445 in Tehran governor’s office on 3.9.2007. 

The mission of the AIRSA assembly has been hereby determined:

The Values

1. Art as a necessary means to interact with the society.

2. Visual literacy as a necessity to better communicate with the members of the society.

3. National culture as an individual’s identity.

4. The appropriate style of presentation of the concepts as a requirement for the social organizations.

Prospects

To help the society obtain a high visual literacy level applying the visual arts.

 

Mission

Familiarizing the members of the society with the visual arts and increasing the visual literacy of people, creating a rich visual interaction among people and groups.

 

Objectives

1. Motivating people to learn and apply art as a need.

2. Reviving and reintroducing the Iranian traditional and classical arts.

3. Discovering and growing some talented members in arts in the society.

4. Reducing the gap between the artists’ community and the common people and developing some effective interaction among them.

5. Attempting to diagnose and remove the visual pollution in the society.

 

Methods of Achieving the Objectives:

1. Holding various exhibitions on a variety of visual arts.

2. Doing research projects.

3. Gathering statistics and surveys.

4. Holding workshops.

5. Holding field seminars and meetings.

6. Supporting the art product producers as far as the AIRSA is able to.

7.  Establishing various art festivals.

8. Producing and distributing books and audiovisual products.

9.   Publishing expert periodicals.

10. Cooperating and coordinating with the art universities and other art community members to execute the above-mentioned programs.

11. Providing specialized libraries and archives for those who are interested.

12. Cooperating with the relevant organizations to perform art projects.

13. Maintaining appropriate relationship between the art professors and their students to achieve the desirable goals.

14. Performing research and studies in order to diagnose the deficiencies in artistic affairs in the society and transferring them to the authoritative organizations and collaborating with them to remove the deficiencies.

15. Collaborating with the relevant organizations in order to improve the quality of art.