If you have a burning passion for creating and designing, join us and our network of acclaimed designers and artisans to shape your own Armenian-inspired contemporary products.
At TUMO Studios, you will acquire new technical and design skills and gain hands-on practice in product creation. You will work towards developing your own product line, which you will be able to promote in partnership with TUMO Studios or get assistance in creating your own brand and personal studio.
TUMO Studios offers free of charge technical courses and design ateliers for imaginative individuals looking to tap into their artistic potential. If you have a burning passion for creating and designing and are between the ages of 18 and 28, join us and our network of internationally acclaimed designers to shape your own artisanal, Armenian-inspired products while putting your own mark on contemporary Armenian design.
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In collaboration with École Duperré Paris, TUMO Studios announces open admission to the Materials: Textile specialization, a three-year program based in Paris, France.
The Textile department at École Duperré Paris focuses on textile design, material research, and innovation. The program prepares students to create and develop textiles for fashion and interior applications, combining creative practice with technical knowledge and experimentation.
Students work with color, surface, materials, and textile structures, while learning production techniques such as weaving, dyeing, and embroidery, alongside digital tools. The curriculum is project-based, encouraging research, prototyping, and collaboration across design disciplines.
TUMO Studios covers tuition, accommodation, and airfare, and provides French language courses if needed.
Applicants must have participated in design ateliers or completed a pattern-making or embroidery technical course at TUMO Studios.
Duration: 2026 September – 2029 June
Deadline to apply: April 7
Requirements: Background in textile or embroidery, French B1
We are hosting a Product Design Atelier at TUMO Studios, led by Victoria Dabdoub.
Victoria is a Palestinian object maker and cultural manager. With a background in architecture, her practice centers on creating objects through collaborations with artisans in Jordan and Palestine. Her first collections explore stone, brass, and olivewood.
This atelier invites participants to reflect on cultural heritage through absence through what is missing, fragmented, or never formally recorded in places such as museums and archives. Here, absence becomes an opportunity for reconstruction and for reshaping dominant narratives. By engaging with gaps in the archive, its silences and omissions, participants will explore creative approaches to addressing archival lacunae, not through factual completion, but through material speculation.
Working primarily with stone and ceramics, participants will experiment with form, texture, weight, and function to design and create an object that responds to absence.
Duration: March 9 – 13
Schedule: Monday through Friday, 11:00 – 18:00
Deadline to apply: March 1
Atelier level: Intermediate
Language: English
This April, we are welcoming back Geneva-based jeweler Fabrice Schaefer for a second atelier.
Farbice now teaches at Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD). Working primarily with noble metals, Fabrice is drawn to their transformative nature, the way they can be reshaped, rewelded, and recast. In his practice, even mistakes become part of the process, offering new possibilities rather than limits.
In this atelier, Fabrice introduces students to rubber-stamping techniques in jewelry making. Participants will begin by sculpting PVC surfaces to create molds, then transfer their forms onto copper using a hydraulic press. The pressure of the rubber sheet pushes the copper into the mold, allowing for the precise and efficient repetition of forms.
Duration: April 13 – 17
Schedule: Monday through Friday, 11:00 – 19:00
Deadline to apply: April 5
Atelier level: Beginner
Language: English
We are hosting a Product Design Atelier at TUMO Studios, led by Victoria Dabdoub.
Victoria is a Palestinian object maker and cultural manager. With a background in architecture, her practice centers on creating objects through collaborations with artisans in Jordan and Palestine. Her first collections explore stone, brass, and olivewood.
This atelier invites participants to reflect on cultural heritage through absence through what is missing, fragmented, or never formally recorded in places such as museums and archives. Here, absence becomes an opportunity for reconstruction and for reshaping dominant narratives. By engaging with gaps in the archive, its silences and omissions, participants will explore creative approaches to addressing archival lacunae, not through factual completion, but through material speculation.
Working primarily with stone and ceramics, participants will experiment with form, texture, weight, and function to design and create an object that responds to absence.
Duration: March 9 – 13
Schedule: Monday through Friday, 11:00 – 18:00
Deadline to apply: March 1
Atelier level: Intermediate
Language: English
TUMO Studios is launching a six-month technical ceramics course for participants aged 28 and above.
This introductory course covers essential hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Participants will work with low-fire clay while learning decoration using underglaze, glaze preparation, and kiln firing. The program also introduces plaster mold making and high-temperature clays, and concludes with an individual ceramic project and presentation.
The 28+ technical course is paid. As with the Studios shop, special projects, and collaborations, all proceeds support TUMO Studios’ educational programs, ensuring free access for a new generation of artisans and designers.
Duration: April 14 – October 8
Schedule: Tuesdays and Saturdays, 18:00–20:00
Deadline to apply: April 5
Participation fee: 75,000 AMD per month
Language: Armenian
We are hosting a Product Design Atelier at TUMO Studios, led by Victoria Dabdoub.
Victoria is a Palestinian object maker and cultural manager. With a background in architecture, her practice centers on creating objects through collaborations with artisans in Jordan and Palestine. Her first collections explore stone, brass, and olivewood.
This atelier invites participants to reflect on cultural heritage through absence through what is missing, fragmented, or never formally recorded in places such as museums and archives. Here, absence becomes an opportunity for reconstruction and for reshaping dominant narratives. By engaging with gaps in the archive, its silences and omissions, participants will explore creative approaches to addressing archival lacunae, not through factual completion, but through material speculation.
Working primarily with stone and ceramics, participants will experiment with form, texture, weight, and function to design and create an object that responds to absence.
Duration: March 9 – 13
Schedule: Monday through Friday, 11:00 – 18:00
Deadline to apply: March 1
Atelier level: Intermediate
Language: English
After the application deadline, the jewelry-making technical course is now only available through our waiting list. Sign up to be notified in advance of the next admission period.
Be among the first to start crafting the jewelry you’ve always envisioned—learning fundamental techniques and working with diverse materials to bring your ideas to life.
The course will take place at
TUMO Studios (44 Aram street).
Schedules are selected by participants upon acceptance.
Language: Armenian
Led by: Shushan Ayvazyan
After the application deadline, the silk-screen printing technical course is now only available through our waiting list. Sign up to be notified in advance of the next admission period.
During the course, you will get the practical knowledge of silk screen printing and learn how to transfer your designs onto materials like fabric or paper.
The courses will take place at TUMO Studios (44 Aram street).
Schedules are selected by participants upon acceptance.
Language: Armenian
Led by: Armine Margaryan
After the application deadline, the pattern making technical course is now only available through our waiting list. Sign up to be notified in advance of the next admission period.
Students at TUMO Studios will discover the secrets of pattern making as well as basic and freehand technical modeling during the pattern making technical course.
The courses will take place at TUMO Studios (44 Aram street).
Schedules are selected by participants upon acceptance.
Language: Armenian
Led by: Anna Rafayelyan
After the application deadline, the embroidery technical course is now only available through our waiting list. Sign up to be notified in advance of the next admission period.
During the twelve month technical course, you will learn about crochet, macramé, and five types of Armenian embroidery styles: Urfa, Sebastia, Marash, Van, and Ayntap.
The courses will take place at TUMO Studios (44 Aram street).
Schedules are selected by participants upon acceptance.
Language: Armenian
Led by: Mariam Gharibyan
After the application deadline, the ceramics technical course is now only available through our waiting list. Sign up to be notified in advance of the next admission period.
The ceramics technical course at TUMO Studios starts with feeling the clay in your hands, crafting the details of the final product, and ends with becoming a pro at the pottery wheel.
The course will take place at TUMO Studios (44 Aram street).
Schedules are selected by participants upon acceptance.
Language: Armenian
Led by: Vardan Aghabekyan
Start creating the jewelry you’ve always looked for! You’ll learn the fundamentals of jewelry making by working with different materials and translating your vision into a reality.
The courses will take place at TUMO Studios (44 Aram street).
Schedules are selected by participants upon acceptance.
Duration: April 20, 2026 – April 9, 2027 (New expanded program for 12 months)
Schedule: Monday through Thursday, 4 hours weekly (11:00 – 13:00 or 14:00 – 16:00, Recap days on Fridays)
Deadline to apply: February 22
Language: Armenian
Led by: Shushan Ayvazyan
Students at TUMO Studios will discover the secrets of pattern making as well as basic and freehand technical modeling during the pattern making technical course.
The courses will take place at TUMO Studios (44 Aram street).
Schedules are selected by participants upon acceptance.
Duration: April 13, 2026 – April 15, 2027 (New expanded program for 12 months)
Schedule: Monday through Thursday, 4 hours weekly (11:00 – 13:00 or 13:30 – 15:30, Recap days on Fridays)
Deadline to apply: February 22
Language: Armenian
Led by: Anna Rafayelyan
During the course, you will get the practical knowledge of silk screen printing and learn how to transfer your designs onto materials like fabric or paper.
The courses will take place at TUMO Studios (44 Aram street).
Duration: March 31, 2026 – July 23, 2026 (New expanded program for 4 months),
Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, (11:30 – 14:00, Recap days on Fridays)
Deadline to apply: February 22
Language: Armenian
Led by: Armine Margaryan
During the 12 month technical course, you will learn about crochet, knitting, bobbin lace and five types of Armenian embroidery styles: Urfa, Sebastia, Marash, Van, and Ayntap.
The courses will take place at TUMO Studios (44 Aram street).
Duration: April 13, 2026 – April 12, 2027 (12 months)
Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 18:00 – 20:00
Deadline to apply: February 22
Language: Armenian
Led by: Mariam Gharibyan