Alina Gregorian

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Alina Gregorian is an artist, poet, and designer. Themes in her work include diaspora, language, dreams, and creating spaces where people can gather. Alina co-created Yeraz, an archive for reimagining SWANA rituals, and curated and appeared in the exhibition Talk to me in Parsley and Tambourines: Artists of the Armenian Diaspora (Babycastles in New York). She is the author of two poetry chapbooks — Navigational Clouds (Monk Books) and Flags for Adjectives (Diez). Her poetry can be found in Boston Review, BOMB Magazine, and Brooklyn Poets Anthology, among other publications. Alina graduated with a degree in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 
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Barev Azizam
Barev Azizam explores Persian words that have been incorporated into the Persian-Armenian dialect. The project looks at the in-betweenness of language; translation that doesn’t always help with understanding; and how language evolves and influences a culture. Barev means “hello” in Armenian and azizam means “dear” in Persian. The prototype consists of 26 flashcards. One side of the flashcard depicts the iconography of the word being translated; the other side shows transliterations, in Armenian and English. The flashcards are featured in a Persian box, juxtaposing the modern design of the cards with the more ornate features of the box.
DESIGN

Coffee Poetics
Coffee Poetics stems from an event organized at Storm Books & Candy in Brooklyn, NY. In July 2024, we invited people to join us for an Armenian coffee cup reading — each guest was served a cup of Armenian coffee, and after drinking the coffee, Anahit Pogosian performed a reading of the symbols from the coffee grinds inside the cup. The cups were photographed by Nadia Bedj, and the symbols are woven into poems by Alina for our upcoming book. The proceeds from the event went to Artsakh via All For Armenia.
DESIGN, POETRY

Flags for Adjectives
Flags for Adjectives (DIEZ, 2017) consists of dialogue poems — poems written with anonymous characters who speak to each other. I wanted to create little plays, but with characters who were not named. Sometimes they have arguments with each other, and often they are playfully gibbering. Whenever I read poems from this chapbook at a venue, I asked someone from the audience to read the second voice with me, thus creating a feeling of surprise, newness, and mystery.
POETRY

That Quiet Fog
That Quiet Fog is the inaugural book on Prismatic Press, from Prismatic Pages, the only English-language bookstore in Oslo. I was fortunate to work on the cover design and typesetting for this novel by a local Oslo author.
DESIGN

Yeraz Yeraz is an archive for reimagining SWANA rituals, each starting with a prompt. Yeraz is Cleo Abramian and Alina Gregorian, both Barska-Hye (Armenians with family from Iran). Yeraz means “dream” in Armenian. I designed and created the website. DESIGN
Talk to Me in Parsley and Tambourines In 2017, I curated and exhibited in an exhibition called Talk to Me in Parsley and Tambourines at Babycastles in NYC. For this exhibit, artists were asked to submit work responding to the idea of the Armenian Diaspora. I submitted two Persian carpet glitches and ֆիլինգս, which is transliterated from the Armenian word for ‘feelings’. 
ART

Navigational Clouds
Navigational Clouds (Monk Books, 2015) is a chapbook of poems filled with fantastical, other-worldly environments that have a sense of the campy nature that Americana can provide. Oranges are flying, people are laughing, and there is a feeling that anything can happen, and everything already did. 
POETRY
Gradient Fields
Gradient Fields is a website I designed and coded. It's a one-page website that goes through the rainbow as a gradient. 
DESIGN, CODING

Blue Clock
Blue Clock is a website I designed and coded that uses 9 colors to represent the time. It is inspired by Dutch graphic designer Karel Marten’s clock, Three Times (in Blue and Yellow). Each number in Blue Clock is shown as a hue of blue or white; the higher the number the darker the hue of blue, and the lower the number the lighter the hue of blue. Zero is shown as white. The clock uses the 24-hour clock. 
DESIGN, CODING

Poetry Mural
TF Cornerstone asked a group of poets from New York City to write poems about the city for their residential mural project. I chose to write about a neighborhood in Queens, where I was born and lived for the first three years of my life. 
POETRY

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