JAMAICAN visual artist Richard Nattoo took top honours in the International Seabed Authority (ISA) United Nations World Ocean Day 2022 art competition which culminated in a virtual event on Wednes.
NCB Foundation Chair Thalia Lyn (c) and author/artist of Ian Takes Flight, Richard Nattoo, flip through pages of beautiful illustrations with a young reader.
The NCB Foundation kick-starts Child’s Month with a bang, in partnership with the Book Industry Association of Jamaica (BIAJ).
The collab is in an effort to position and promote Jamaican authors and create spaces for authentic, educational, cultural stories and content to be shared.
Through this strategic approach, Jamaican authors have been highlighted.
This year, in particular, Child’s Month is an even more important time to affirm our children and provide a supportive and positive environment for them to learn and grow despite the challenges of the pandemic.
Double the talent equals double the success for Richard Nattoo, one of 40 selected awardees for the CATAPULT Consultancy Voucher Programme and a recipient of the Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence in the category of Arts and Culture, an honour he is still finding the words to describe.
“I want to use the arts and culture platform to show that it’s never too much to take on a project you are passionate about. Our island has a vast community of creatives, a lot of whom have dreams to do make an impact with their art, but sometimes adulthood and everything else makes us feel like we can’t,” said the artist (and artiste), who, with the CATAPULT grant was able to achieve one of his dreams to launch a website,