“The Art of the Armenian Khachkar” was curated by Dr. Helen C. Evans, an Academic Advisor to the Museum who is the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art Emerita at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The display was sponsored by Garabed and Aghavny Tovmassian-Kasparian. The piece was sculpted on a 630-pound slab of volcanic stone shipped from Armenia to Washington, where it was carved during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2018. This video with English subtitles is about the artist Bogdan Hovhannisyan was produced for the Smithsonian's My Armenia Program.