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Mission artist creates powerful statement about world hunger

Kelsea Rice was a runner-up in the 2017 Georges Haroutiun Applied Arts Scholarship Awards
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Mission’s Kelsea Rice was a runner-up in the 2017 Georges Haroutiun Applied Arts Scholarship Awards.

The local student was one of four University of the Fraser Valley students to be recognized for their work.

The objective for the project was to bring to light the issue of world hunger.

With her submission, a poster for the group Freedom from Hunger, Rice explained that she wanted to grab the audience’s attention and decided to make her concept a powerful one.

“Almost 800 million people are imprisoned by hunger. My overall concept is that we need to free them from that imprisonment by getting involved through the NGO (non-governmental organization) Freedom from Hunger. Therefore, hunger, that is represented by the fork, is trapping them and causing them to suffer from malnourishment, which is symbolized by the skeleton hands.”

She said the design was meant to make people want to help in any way they can.

Freedom from Hunger focuses on women around the world who are struggling. Freedom from Hunger co-developed Saving for Change with Oxfam America and the Strømme Foundation of Norway to enable groups of women to deposit savings and build sums for predictable needs.

“I hope this brings awareness to this NGO and more people get involved. Ending world hunger begins when we work together as a community.”

The scholarship winners are:

Advertising winner: Shay Klassen, Capilano University IDEA Program

Design winner: Cooper Symonds, University of the Fraser Valley

Image winner: Mei Noftle, University of the Fraser Valley

The scholarship runners-up are:

Advertising runner-up: Kelsea Rice, University of the Fraser Valley

Design runner-up: Jesse Ellingson, Capilano University IDEA Program

Image runner-up: Juliana Bermudez, University of the Fraser Valley