Arpik  (Kalendjian)  Weitzer

 

is an Armenian artist, born and raised in Sochi, Russia.  At a young age, growing up in Soviet Russia, she was guided and nurtured into the arts. By the age of 16, she had already received 5 years of formal training and was accepted into the Moscow School of Applied Arts and graduated in 1992. In 1996, Arpik moved to America and taught art classes at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Since then, she has completed over 100 privately commissioned art pieces and has had her art featured in several art shows and galleries in Europe and the United States.

 

She has designed and completed projects that can be found throughout the United States in cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, and  San Francisco, and abroad, in Germany, Russia, and the Galapagos Isles , in Ecuador
In her native language, Arpik means “sun-ray”. Coincidently, Arpik’s art is best appreciated in natural light. Her skilled use of color, light, and detail are characteristic features of her work.