ENSA-Arte Award Winners To Get USD 15,000

Angola Wed 16-12-2009

ENSA-Arte Award Winners To Get USD 15,000
By Simao Souindoula

The board of the plastic arts competition, organised by the Insurance Firm of Angola (ENSA), announced this Thursday in Luanda to attribute USD 15.000 to each winner of the categories of sculpture and painting.

According to the marketing director of ENSA, Augusto Mateus, who was speaking about the prize, USD 7,500 will also be awarded to second placed competitors in the respective categories.

He added that the 10th edition of the ENSA-Arte event will count on the participation of 200 competitors from various provinces of the country.

Besides the USD 5,000, the winners of the Youth Award in Sculpture and Painting will be entitled to a set of specific materials for their daily work.

The jury will attribute a special prize as an encouragement to a competitor of one of the provinces, in the categories of painting and sculpture, with the exception of Luanda, the work that produces the quality meeting the demands to be adopted. Honourable mentions will also be awarded.

The exhibition of pre-selected and winning works will be open to the public from April 14 to May 13, 2010.

ENSA owns one of the largest and most complete collections of Angolan plastic arts, comprising about 120 works of painting, sculpture and artistic drawing.

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