Dhauli College of Art and Crafts Principal Chandan Kumar Samal and artist Jaya Jena have been conferred with the Jatiya Lalitakala Akademi awards for the stone sculpture titled “The Construction”.
They received the awards from Goa Governor Drudula Sinha at a special programme held in the Sir JJ School of Art premises in Mumbai recently.
Samal’s sculpture “Human Thinking’ made of granite stone was highly lauded. Earlier, Samal and Jen had received the award for the sculpture titled “Prakruti” in 2007.