ArtVenture Launches Art Prize with Human Rights Focus

Are you an artist who uses his or her talents to promote creative freedom, empathy, and understanding? Do you and your art routinely confront discrimination and oppression? Do you currently find yourself in prison? These are among the qualities Singapore-based philanthropic organization ArtVenture seeks in contenders for its new Freedom to Create Prize, for which it is partnering with human rights organization Article 19. Announced yesterday, the prize will award a total of $100,000 to three artists and organizations that further the causes highlighted by their artwork.