Topangan Zoe Chressanthis Selected for International Art Competition

 

PHOTO BY ZOE CHRESSANTHIS Topanga native and Kansas City Art Institute student Zoe Chressanthis's black-and-white photograph, "Fly Away Home," will be exhibited with other young artists at the Romanian Institute of Culture, Campo Santa Fosca, Venice, Italy.

Topanga native and Kansas City Art Institute student Zoe Chressanthis is the only American artist among 12 finalists in the “Special Section Under 25” category who will be exhibiting in the Arte Laguna Art Prize International Competition in Venice, Italy, Mar. 16-31.

Her black-and-white photograph, "Fly Away Home," will be exhibited with other young artists at the Romanian Institute of Culture, Campo Santa Fosca, Venice, Italy, (http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/exhibition-information.html).

Zoe attended Topanga Elementary, Topanga Mountain School and graduated from Agoura High School in 2012.

Other students selected in the category are: Pablo Andino (Ecuador), Nadia Sofia Bteibet (Italy), Radan Cicen (Turkey), Danny Cohen (Australia), Julie De Waroquier (France), Piergiorgio Del Ben (Italy), Khairulddin Fulgvres (Republic of Singapore), Egor Gavrilin (Russia),Tiara Ghandour (Lebanon), Nicola Guastamacchia (Italy), Anna Kostka (Poland), Valeria Talamonti (Italy), Hajime Yamada (Japan), Ilia Yefimovich (Russia).