Four Indians are among the 36 students from various countries who have been selected as winners of an international arts contest.
Bhavya Mithra from Artesia Art School in Malappuram district of Kerala has bagged the second place in the third-fifth grade drawing category of the 2013 Space Foundation International Student Art Contest.
Mankeert Narang from Yadavindra Public School in Punjab’s Mohali town has been judged as third in the third-fifth grade painting and mixed category, a media release said.
Similarly Jasmine Narang from Yadavindra Public School in Mohali and Payel Saha from Chaturanga Art Centre in West Bengal have grabbed the top two spots, respectively in the 9th-12th grade category in painting and mixed media.
Young artists from as many as 12 countries were selected for top slots from among more than 4,700 entries representing 45 countries, including 38 US states and territories. This is the largest response since the contest began three years ago, the release said.
The winners received award and get their artwork displayed at the Space Foundation’s 29th National Space Symposium next month at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
They will also be invited to tour the Space Symposium’s Lockheed Martin Exhibit Centre and meet former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, it said.
The Space Foundation invited students from around the world in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade to submit original artwork.
A panel of international judges selected first, second and third place winning entries in four grade categories — PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12, besides three style categories — drawing, painting/mixed media and digital.
From that group, the 36 winners were chosen and the panel selected a single grand prize winner in each age category, for a total of four grand prize winners.
Space Foundation Achievement Award was also awarded to a participant selected from among the winners by the Space Foundation’s internal graphic arts team.