Mysuru: Young artist from city S. Virupaksha (in pic) has bagged the Karnataka Lalithakala Academy Award for the year 2017-18. The Award carries a cash prize of Rs. 25,000, a citation and a certificate and it will be given away at a programme to be held at Ravindra Kalakshetra in Bengaluru this evening.
A student of Sree Kalanikethana School of Art in Mysuru, Virupaksha has got the award for is water colour painting of a vertical memorial in Srirangapatna. The painting has been selected under “Suvarna Sambhrama Kala Puraskar."
