February 25, 2010—
Over the course of two years, artists from North Dakota and South Dakota collaborated with the Bush Foundation to explore new ways of supporting the professional development of artists in the region through the Dakota Creative Connections grant program
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Career Field: Traditional and Functional Craft Arts
Secondary Field: Metal
Norik Astvatsaturov (Wahpeton, N.Dak.) fled with his family to the United States as refugees from Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1992 after the dissolution of the USSR and rising ethnic and religious violence with the predominant Azeris. He has continued to create the traditional metal art work or repoussé that is used in the Armenian refugee communities in North Dakota and throughout the country for weddings, anniversaries and other important events. Astvatsaturov works with a range of different metals including gold, silver, bronze and copper. He is a recipient of a 2005 individual artist fellowship and five traditional arts apprenticeships from the North Dakota Council for the Arts. In 2007, he received a grant from the Fund for Folk Culture’s Creative Opportunities for Traditional Artists program.
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