Evelyn Choi, a student at Toronto's representational fine art school Academy of Realist Art, has won multiple art contests with cash prizes totalling $2,700 USD, from The Artist's Magazine and the Art Renewal Center competitions.

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) August 16, 2006 -- Academy of Realist Art (ARA) student Evelyn Choi has won two prestigious art prizes recently, from The Artist’s Magazine competition and from the Art Renewal Center’s scholarship competition, for a total of $2,700 USD in prizes. Choi has been studying traditional “classical” drawing and painting in Toronto at ARA for only two years.

The Artist’s Magazine said they are “pleased to announce that Evelyn Choi has won two prizes in our annual student art competition. She’s placed first in the Portrait and Figure category for her painting Catia, and third in the Still Life category for her painting Bittersweet. Look for Choi’s work, along with the work of other student competition winners, in the January/February 2007 issue of The Artist’s Magazine.”

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