In honor of the inauguration of Mary A. Papazian as the 11th president of Southern Connecticut State University, the first woman of Armenian descent to be a college or university president in the United States, the New Haven university will show an exhibit of Armenian artwork.

The show, which will be up until Oct 21 in the Lobby Gallery of the John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, will open with a reception on Sept 27.

The artists in the show are Ashod Bayandour, Arshile Gorky, Sarkis Hamalbashian, Hamlet Hovsepian, Gayane Katchadourian, Vasken Kalayjian, Reuben Nakian, Vahan Rumelian, Ararat Sarkissian, Arthur Sarkissian, Shanoor, Kegham Tazian and Paul Zenian.