Award Overview

The ChrysArte Young Talent Awards is a national visual arts competition dedicated to recognizing and nurturing creativity, imagination, and artistic excellence among children and young adults across Pakistan. Designed as a professional platform beyond the classroom, the competition celebrates original ideas, thoughtful storytelling, and age-appropriate artistic skill while encouraging young artists to express their unique perspectives through traditional art.

The ChrysArte Young Talent Awards recognise artistic potential at an early age by encouraging imagination, creative thinking, and visual storytelling. Every submission is evaluated by a professional panel of artists, curators, educators, and creative practitioners using transparent judging criteria that value originality, concept, and age-appropriate skill.

Beyond prizes, participants receive the opportunity to have their work recognised nationally, exhibited, and celebrated alongside young artists from across Pakistan.

Themes

Imagine a robot designed to make the world a kinder place. What does it do? Does it help people, protect nature, care for animals, comfort lonely children, or solve everyday problems?

Use your imagination to create a robot that represents kindness, creativity, and hope. Any artistic style is welcome, including realistic, abstract, cartoon, or fantasy.

Think about how kindness and care looks like to you and explain it through your artwork. Focus on emotion, symbolism, and personal meaning, and let your imagination define how the robot looks and feels like.

"The Kind Robot"

"The Guardian"

Create an original mystical character or imaginary being that serves as a source of protection, hope, and happiness. This guardian or friend can take any form you imagine; a magical animal, a gentle giant, a celestial or star-born being, or something completely unique from your imagination.

There are no limits on artistic approach or medium. All styles are welcome, including abstract, realistic, fantasy, or experimental interpretations.

Think about how your guardian protects or supports you, and tell its story through your artwork. Focus on emotion, symbolism, and personal meaning, and let your imagination define what a guardian looks and feels like.

Prizes

Total Prize Pool of PKR 1,00,000

15 Prizes for 3 Age Groups

All participants will receive digitally signed participating certificates.
Winners & finalists will receive Printed certificate.

Participants will also get a chance to Showcase and Sell artworks through our Partner Gallery and professional guidance.

Selected works will be featured in an online catalogue

Art Teacher/Coordinators Awards

Appreciation Certificate for All Art Teachers
Appreciation Certificates for All Activity Coordinator
Appreciation Certificate for Principal

Excellence Award for Teachers for best quality of artworks from one class

Best Creative School Award for most number of artworks received

School Awards

Any Medium allowed: pencil, color pencil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, oil, mixed media. No digital art

Size for Group A: A4 Paper or 8 x 12 / 12 x 12 inches Canvas
Size for Group B and C: A3 Paper or 12 x 18 inches Canvas (1 x 1.5 ft)

Submissions will not be returned

Create artwork from your home/school; send the original artwork to us via courier

Participations are open from all cities of Pakistan

Eligibility & Rules

Age Range 4 - 18 years old

Categories
A) 4 - 8 years old
B) 9 - 13 years old
C) 14 - 18 years old

EarlyBird Deadline: 

Registration Deadline: 

Jury/Judges Review: 

Results Announcement:

Deadline

25th September

15th December

20th December

30th December

Each artwork judged out of 100:

• Concept & Interpretation – 40

• Creativity & Originality – 30

• Skill & Technique – 30

Judging Criteria

School / Group Discount

PKR 1,500 per artwork

For 30 or more students from the same school: PKR 1,200 per artwork

Early Bird School Incentive

The first three schools confirming early bird registration with 50+ students will receive a: Complimentary One-Day Creative Art Workshop
Conducted by the ChrysArte Team
(Subject to scheduling and location feasibility)

The school must coordinate registration and payment in a single transaction.

Payment Methods: Wallet Transfer and Bank Transfer/Deposit.

Fees

Individual Entry

• PKR 2,000 per artwork

• PKR 4,000 3,500 for 2 artworks

• PKR 6,000 5,000 for 3 artworks

Early Bird Discount

PKR 1,500 If you Register by 25th September 2026 (only for individual entry)

Sibling Discount:

PKR 1,500 per child, per theme for the second and subsequent siblings.

Payment Methods: Wallet Transfer, Bank Transfer/Deposit.

As a non-funded initiative, fees are necessary to cover trophies, medals, certificates, logistics, and marketing.

Fee Proof: Please Take a photo or screenshot of fee transaction and submit it along with the artwork as fee proof.

One artwork per child, if you send 2 artworks you will have to register for 2 artworks.
Artwork must be original and made specifically for this competition.

Financial Acces

Limited fee waivers for underprivileged students through NGOs.

For JazzCash, EasyPaisa, Raqami, or other wallet transfer, please get in touch with us.

Group A
A4 Paper or an 8 x 12 / 12 x 12 inches Canvas

Submission Process

Group B and C
A3 Paper or 12 x 18 inches Canvas (1x1.5 ft)

2. Participant's name, age category, school name, grade, and theme must be written on the back of the Artwork.
(You can Download and Print the given label and paste it at the back of each Artwork)

4. Fill them out on the computer (no handwritten forms).

5. Print the filled registration form/s to send it along with artworks.

6. Email or WhatsApp the registration form. 

1. Create Your Artwork on the required size according to the age group

3. Download the registration form
(School registration form contains two worksheets:
- School Registration form
- Students participation list)

7. Transfer the registration fee to The ChrysArte's bank account.

8. Pack your Artworks and send them to us along with following things:
- Proof of fee submission
- Printed Filled registration form

9. Send your artworks at our postal address (Will be given after Registration)

ChrysArte
0316-5103046
submission@awards.chrysarte.com

10. Share "work-in-progress" stories on social media and tag us for a shoutout!

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