Urban Sketchers announces 2012 Symposium Scholarships and Correspondent Award
Urban Sketchers is pleased to announce the recipients of scholarships for the 3rd International Urban Sketching Symposium (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, July 12-14).Ten local Santo Domingo sketchers were awarded Tuition Scholarships of $295 each that will allow them to attend the event at a deep discount. The scholarship recipients are: Moo Hyun, John Noyola, Katheryn Cabrera, Kenia Brea, Laura Concepción, Mónica Lapaz, Karim López, Manuel Carrera, Pragmy Marichal and Nicole Hernández. You can see samples of their work on the Symposium site (link).
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| Lapin (Barcelona) has been a correspondent of the Urban Sketchers international blog since it was launched in November of 2008. |
Also present in Santo Domingo will be Barcelona-based illustrator and urban sketcher Julien Fassel, best known in the art world as Lapin, who has been named the 2012 Symposium Correspondent.
Lapin was selected by the Urban Sketchers board of directors from a total of 33 candidates who submitted applications. Regular contributors of Urban Sketchers blogs were eligible for this award, which covers round trip airfare and accommodation for the winning candidate.
The Symposium Correspondent is expected to document the Symposium experience in sketches and share regular reports of the event at urbansketchers.org and the Symposium blog site.
Upon receiving the news, Lapin said he was already dancing the Merengue to celebrate such an opportunity. “I’m so honoured to be the eyes of the Urban Sketchers blog readers, telling them through my sketches all that will happen during the three intense days of the Symposium,” he said.
Lapin has been a regular contributor of the Urban Sketchers online community from its very beginning. In November of 2008, he inaugurated the Urban Sketchers group blog with a sketch of Barcelona’s Casa Batlló. Since then, he has published more than 200 entries with over a thousand sketches drawn in Barcelona and other cities around the world such as Tokyo, Istanbul, Paris and New York. Lapin also served as a board member of the Urban Sketchers nonprofit from its launch in 2009 until 2011, when he decided to step aside to meet the new demands of being a father. He was also an instructor at the 2010 Symposium in Portland, Oregon.
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| João Pinheiro (São Paulo) was the Symposium Correspondent in Lisbon. |
The funding for these scholarships and correspondent award is made possible by everyone who made a donation to our nonprofit in the past year. If you believe in our mission of “Showing the World, One Drawing at a Time,” you can make a donation any time at urbansketchers.org — find the Donate PayPal button on the sidebar.
The Urban Sketching Symposium wouldn't be possible without the help of our hosts in Santo Domingo, Centro Cultural de España, Museo de las Casas Reales and Quintana Bar, the support from our sponsors, which include Canson, Strathmore Paper Company, Stillman & Birn, Moleskine, Laloran, Chartpak Inc., Pentel of America, and Letraset, and the volunteer effort of everyone involved in the organization of the event.
Urban Sketchers is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the artistic, storytelling and educational value of location drawing; promoting its practice and connecting people around the world who draw on location where they live and travel.
CONTACT
Symposium website:
http://sdq2012.urbansketchers.org
International media requests and sponsorship opportunities
Elizabeth Alley
elizabeth@urbansketchers.org
Local media requests and sponsorship opportunities
Orling Dominguez
orling@urbansketchers.org
General questions
symposium@urbansketchers.org
Urban Sketchers site:
http://www.urbansketchers.org
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