Artist Hugo Crosthwaite has been awarded the first-prize in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, claiming a $25,000 reward and the chance to create artwork for the museum's permanent collection. The winning piece, Portrait of Berenice Sarmiento Chávez, 2018, employed Crosthwaite's signature technique of stop-motion drawing animation to depict an intimate, yet collectively shared, story of immigration through the lens of Berenice Sarmiento Chávez.C...
Artist Hugo Crosthwaite has been awarded the first-prize in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, claiming a $25,000 reward and the chance to create artwork for the museum's permanent collection. The winning piece, Portrait of Berenice Sarmiento Chávez, 2018, employed Crosthwaite's signature technique of stop-motion drawing animation to depict an intimate, yet collectively shared, story of immigration through the lens of Berenice Sarmiento Chávez.C...
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