International High School Arts festival (1)

 The 16th International High school Arts festival, sponsored by the IFAC was held at The Ritz Carlton, Tokyo, on June 27.
 This year, students from Japan and 15 other countries put more than 11,000 pieces of works up for the festival, including fine art and calligraphy. Of them, 408 works were exhibited at the National art Center, Tokyo.
 28 Japanese students and a Singaporean student won special awards presented by the prime minister, other ministers and media.

 In the fine arts division, the top Prime Minister Awards went to Kenta Mark Boyd Coronan, a senior at Honjo-Daiichi school, Saitama Prefecture.Coronan said, "I'm so honored to receive this award. I didn't think I'd win it because I didn't win anything the past two years. This art festival is a place where I'm on equal footing with the world and wining such an honorable award is very meaningful." His work "Sunbeams of Warmth," manifests warm sunbeams in a forest of bamboos and other trees.

 In the calligraphy division, Nanami Kuriyama, a senior at Omiya Koryo High school, Saitama Prefecture, won the prize. Kuriyama said, "I'm truly grateful to have been selected for the prestigious Prime Minister Award this year. She wrote excerpts from the "Treatise of calligraphy" written by Sun Guoting during China's Tang Dynasty.



(source: THE JAPAN TIMES, July.7, 2015)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/2015/07/07/special-supplements/coming-aspiring-artists-recognized-talents/#.VZ5Mb_0w_mI