TSAA students of the Fine arts Faculty, Painting department - N. Khabelashvili, Kh. Mchedlishvili, E. Babini,  took part in the  nomadic plein air "Solar Palette of the East". The project was funded by the  Fund ' Art Araba', the 'World festival of Epics of the Peoples of the World',  and took places on various locations - petroglyphs of Cholpon-Ata, Karakol Mountains, "Broken Heart" by Zheti Oguz, Valley of Kaji-Saya, and created more than 300 etude works. The project participants, the young artists of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, also visited  the orphanage "Iradze" in Karakol. Creative dialogue, exchange of experience and friendship were one of the main  issues  of the plein air.