Chinese teenager Jia Ke won the best award in the Alberta Painting Competition

Chinese teenager Jia Ke won the best award in the Alberta Painting Competition In the Alberta Youth Duck Post Painting Competition that just ended yesterday (March 22, 2013), a 12-year-old Chinese boy from Chandler named Jia Ke (Katrina) from...

Jia, with his superb painting skills, stood out from more than 800 contestants across the state and won the Best Award in Alberta. To this end, she will represent Alberta in the 2013 National Duck Post Painting Competition. Jia Ke has been passionate about painting since he was a child, and currently uses his extracurricular time to study painting at Xiao Su Studio every week.

The annual National Duck Stamp Painting Competition is a painting competition organized by the Department of the Interior legislated by the U.S. Congress. Its purpose is mainly to promote the protection of the natural environment and education. Each state selects the best winner in March each year, and then conducts the final nationwide competition. In addition to receiving a $5,000 prize, the best national winner will also have their work printed on a U.S. stamp for circulation.

>Jia Ke’s entries