To keep people creatively engaged Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) the best Delhi Museum has started activities with different craft techniques for everyone from a young child to a senior citizen. To promote arts, KNMA conducted a nationwide online competition for school students “Mask-a-thon”...
This initiative provided an opportunity for all school-going children to showcase their craft techniques during the lockdown. The competition received an overwhelming response from all over India. This Delhi Museum received artworks from more than 200 cities by twelve thousand students from across the country who participated in this competition.
Acting as an online art school in Delhi KNMA wanted to engage children during their home stay due to Corona Pandemic. KNMA Mask-a-thon had two age categories, ‘Senior’ (11-18 years old) and ‘junior’ (under 11 years), both categories got an equal response with over 6000+ artworks in each.
Following were the winners in Senior Category-
- The first prize goes to Shreya Mondal from Balitikuri, Howrah, and West Bengal.
- The second prize goes to Anvesha Jha from Greater Noida, U.P.
- The third prize goes to Premlata Chouhan from Azamgarh, U.P.
- Runners-up prizes go to Rajveer Singh Kapoor (New Delhi), Vaani Gupta (Noida), Devansh Thapliyal, Aarushi Chandrawanshi (Ghaziabad), Uttam Purushottam (Goa).
Following were the winners in Junior Category-
- The first prize goes to Avani Kansal from Panipat, Haryana.
- The second prize goes to Adona Mary Martin from New Delhi.
- The third prize goes to Drithi from Udupi, Karnataka.
- Runners-up prizes go to Amal Dhamotharen (Chennai), Ananya Shrivastava (Hyderabad), Kavy Sahi (Dehradun), R. Deepesh (Chennai), S. Nikhita Sentil (Coimbatore).
Prizes totalling Rs 56,000 will be given to all the winners and runners up by Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. More free workshops and online classes are open for people of all age groups on KNMA social media pages.
