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Friday, May 4, 2007

Ethiopian Artist Bekele Mekonnen Awarded Prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant


(05/03/07)

Visual artist and poet Bekele Mekonnen
The United States Embassy extends its congratulates and is pleased to announce that Bekele Mekonnen, painter, poet, sculptor and lecturer at the School of Fine Arts and Design of Addis Ababa University (AAU), has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant of $20,000. The award was announced in New York on February 20, 2007 by the Chairman of the Board of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation INC. Bekele Mekonnen was selected from a number of contestant throughout the world by a distinguished committee of art professionals for his achievements in art work.

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