We followed our visit to the Palace of Nowruz by a visit to the “Artist’s Gallery”. It was a large industrial type complex and not a new building. It was two stories high with large outside workshop areas as well. There were people painting, working with jewelry, glass, plastics, mosaics, and many more artists outside doing sculpting, welding, and so on. Many of these artists worked on the Palace of Nowruz so it was really a fun visit and we also got to see people working.

In this post, I will concentrate on the people working inside the building. Actually, the art was everywhere. In the first photo, these paintings are on the outside of the second story workshops but the outside walkway was covered by a roof and the halls were all covered by paintings.

For whatever reason, we seemed to concentrate on the painters. I believe that majority of the artists here were painters. Plus, the actual sign on the building said “Academy of Painters of Tajikistan”. It did not say artist’s gallery. You can see a couple of guys with their own room in the second photo. The two painters in the third and fourth photos were working in different rooms. Everyone seemed very busy.

The guy in the last photo worked in the plastics section. I don’t know what he is building there but I thought I would throw in at least one other area of art.