The best five paintings were awarded with cash prizes, certificates and shields by the Pakistan. Top five winners of the competition included Maryum Rasul, Saima Ashraf, Abeera Habib, Muhammad Adnan Hafeez and Riffat Ara Baig. The jury comprised well-known artist Nahida Raza, Head of Fine Arts Department Fatima Jinnah University Dr Surriya Chaudhary, and Devcom-Pakistan Director Munir Ahmed.
Briefing about the painting competition, Devcom-Pakistan Director and the Founding Director of the Pakistan Mountain Festival Munir Ahmed said, “The objective of the activity was to capture the beauty and the biological diversity of mountain environment as well as to reflect the challenges confronting the Margalla Hills National Park. The competition was a rare opportunity for the very busy female art teachers, who hardly find time to continue exploring their own creative passion. Most of the time, they are teaching and grooming their students and taking care of their families. On-the-spot painting for art teachers was a creative retreat and continuity of their expression for the projection and mainstreaming of the mountain’s ecosystems. I believe that art can be used in multiple ways to enhance aesthetics in society leading to conservation and protection of nature to the cleansing of the social environment.”
Several art teachers have asked to expand the scope of the initiative to make it a permanent programme to develop and groom a devoted group of art-activists to engage youth and their families in awareness raising and outreach on communicating climate change and other relevant subjects
He added, “Environmentally sensitised teachers especially those teaching art, can give a push to the environmental conservation efforts through aesthetically enriched visuals. There is need to engage and sensitise teachers their active role in the conservation efforts. A sensitised teacher is more effective than anyone else in the society because of the social status that a teacher enjoys in the society.”
Baigwent on to say that several art teachers have asked to expand the scope of the initiative to make it a permanent programme to develop and groom a devoted group of art-activists to engage youth and their families in awareness raising and outreach on communicating climate change and other relevant subjects.
Published in Daily Times, December 14th 2017.
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