Draft:Carina Sab Araujo

Carina Araujo (born August 8, 2012) is an American artist.

Art career

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She has exhibited for the Youth Art Month in Black Rock Center for the Arts in 2022 and 2023,[1] for the online exhibition for children at the Barnes Foundation in 2022,[2] and at Creative Outlets in Bethesda in 2023.[3] She won the 2022 Storm Drain Art Contest for the city of Gaithersburg to raise awareness of water pollution and her design was painted in a storm drain in Gaithersburg[4][5][6] and she received an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Storm Drain Art Contest.[7] She was one of the winners of the Horrible Dib Dib Halloween Competition from the Idries Shah Foundation (Winners of The Horrible Dib Dib Halloween Drawing Competition! - The Idries Shah Foundation) in 2022.[8]

Her artwork was chosen for the cover of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the December 2022 issue (Table of Contents page: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (jaacap.org)).[9] Another of her artworks raising the awareness of transit’s role in helping to protect the environment was featured in a DMV metrobus in Celebration of Earth Day in April-May 2023 (Metro unveils Earth Day bus art winners | wusa9.com).[10]

Carina was longlisted for the Explorer’s Against Extinction Junior sketch art competition in the UK, awaiting final results for short listing. Her drawing was selected to be converted into a glass statuette at the Corning Museum of Glass (NY state) in July 2023. She also won in her age category a coloring contest for the American Road Magazine in 2023.

Carina Araujo also loves writing and drawing. She has self-published 5 books in Amazon. Two of those books were award winners. She won the second place in the 2021 PBS Kids Writers Contest (https://weta.org/sites/default/files/2021-09/Carina%20A.pdf),[11] and the first place in the 2022 PBS kids Writers (4-1st) Carina A. - The Girl Who Was Afraid of Talking (weta.org) for books she wrote and illustrated.[11] She was a winner of the 2022 Camille S. Campbell’s “Young Poet Awards” contest, and her poem with her artwork was published in Skipping Stones magazine.[12] She won Haiku contests in 2022 and 2023 with the Martin Luther King Library, in DC.[13]

She has participated three times in the Acton Children’s Business Fair in VA and MD showcasing her books and artwork.

References

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  1. ^ "Exhibitions".
  2. ^ https://barnesfoundation.wufoo.com/forms/student-gallery-submission-form/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ https://www.creativeoutletsac.com/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ "2022 Storm Drain Art Contest | Gaithersburg, MD".
  5. ^ https://www.facebook.com/100064727558909/posts/398620542305528/?d=n
  6. ^ "Gaithersburg kids win art contest, paint city storm drains to raise pollution awareness | WJLA". 4 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Storm Drain Art Project | Gaithersburg, MD".
  8. ^ "Winners of the Horrible Dib Dib Halloween Drawing Competition! - the Idries Shah Foundation". 31 October 2022.
  9. ^ "AACAP Home".
  10. ^ "Calling all young artists: Have your art printed on a Metrobus for Earth Day". 20 February 2023.
  11. ^ a b "WETA PBS Kids Writers Contest Winners | WETA".
  12. ^ https://www.camillescampbell.com/about-5. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ^ "DC Public Library Haiku Contest 2022".