Chroma, Inc. is pleased to announce the winners of its International Student Art Contest. There were over 270 submissions by students from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. They used Archival Oils, Atelier Interactive Professional Artist Acrylics and A>2 Student Acrylics to create their exceptional paintings. The $5,000 Grand Prize was awarded to Kirsten Low from the University of New South Wales (AU), for her painting, Eyes of the Dark Interior.
The $1,000 Best Acrylic Prize was awarded to Shannon Gilbert from Virginia Commonwealth University (US) for Historical Perspective, painted with Atelier Interactive Professional Artist Acrylics. The $1,000 Best Oil Prize was awarded to Alexander Carletti, from the Adelaide Central School of Art (AU), for Autopsy, painted with Archival Oils.
We would also like to congratulate the following students, who were awarded Commendable prizes: Mark Stewart from the Tyler School of Art (US) for his painting, Battle, created with Atelier Interactive Professional Artist Acrylics; Barbara J. Briggs from the San Francisco Academy of Art University (US), for her painting, Wonderful Day, created with Atelier Interactive Professional Artist Acrylics; and Will Pierce from the Maryland Institute, College of Art (US), for his painting, Study, created with A>2 Student Acrylics.
To view all the winning paintings, please click here. Contest Winners