[company_age]23.0[/company_age][employees]11-50 employees[/employees][description]The Aref (Emilio Rizzi and Giobatta Ferrari Artistic and Cultural Association) is a non-profit cultural association established in Brescia, Italy, in 2001. Its mission is to promote the knowledge of the life and art of the two artists to whom it is dedicated: Giovan Battista Ferrari (1829-1906) and Emilio Rizzi (1881-1952). More generally, Aref has always promoted initiatives aimed at promoting the knowledge of art, society and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. It presents itself as a cultural agency that deals mainly with regional and local figurative art of the nineteenth, twentieth and contemporary centuries, offering cultural services to art lovers, researchers, students, artists and public bodies. Aref offers a series of cultural services by organizing: research groups organized in the Permanent Study Commission to develop critical thinking on local art, proposing innovative methodologies and elements of knowledge; art publications in the Segmenti series; art competitions and scholarships with the Rizzi Award; exhibitions of various kinds; conferences, conversations, debates, study seminars, art courses; film and documentary screenings with the Art on the Screen program; concerts in the Aref in music project.[/description][ps]Research groups, art publications, art competitions, exhibitions, conferences, seminars, art courses, film screenings, concerts.[/ps]