My Art My Heart Contest- 2012
My Heart, My Art 2012
Kamal Sagar Thokar, Tapendra Koirala, Jeetendra Bhandari, Alok Chandra Mahato (standing from Left to Right) Prof. Bibiana Cujec, Seema Bhandari, Carmina Shrestha, Sajan Acharya, Prof Carol Ann Courneya (sitting from Left to Right)
Since the inception of the medical education Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) has been supporting its students’ artistic endeavors by hosting an art competition. The competition was held for second year among the students during cardiac block in the first year of their basic sciences curriculum. They were asked to artistically conceptualize what they learnt about the heart and circulatory system.
The competition was an idea of Dr Carol Ann Courneya, an international faculty at PAHS who has been coordinating the cardiac block at PAHS. “We want our students to have a holistic education with a combination of arts, humanities, and sciences. This will give them a better understanding of the human condition and make them well prepared to become innovative health care leaders in rural Nepal one day,” says Dr Courneya.
The popular competition was named as “Mero Mutu, Mero Kala” (my heart my art) by Achyut Koirala from the first batch which was one of the categories last year.
This year the competition saw a surge in submissions this year with 30 pieces of art, two music videos, and an animation film. A panel of 10 judges chose the top three pieces and the top logo which were put on display at the college grounds on 11 October. The winners were given away prizes which included stethoscopes and PAHS mugs. Dr Carol Ann Courneya was one of the judges in the contest.
In the contest, Kamal Sagar Thokar won the 1st prize for a charcoal sketch of heart whereas the second and third prizes were grabbed by Seema Bhandari for a 3D presentation and Jeetendra Bhandari and Sajan Acharya for a music video respectively. Also the honorary prizes were given away to the three students Alok Chandra Mahato for poster painting, Tapendra Koirala for heart animation and Carmina Shrestha for 3D presentation “You reap what you sow”. This year there was an additional title for logo in the competition which was bagged by Carmina Shrestha.