WCAAD student Kate Xiao, 9 years old， winning the 1st Place Award at the 2022 YCIA Youth Arts Festival

​Congratulations to WCAAD student Kate Xiao, 9 years old, for winning the 1st Place Award with a prize of $50 at the 2022 YCIA Youth Arts Festival!  Inspired by “The Thinker,” her winning artwork is titled “When Will Covid End?”

Kate is a resident of Texas and she started to take our online class two years ago. We have witnessed her improvement in art and she has won multiple awards for various art contests.  She won the Senate Award at the 2020-21 Health Fair Drawing Contest and the Excellence Award a the 2020-21 LA Web Children’s Drawing Contest.

WCAAD provides enrichment online art program that is as rigorous and nurturing as in-person classes. The Academy continues to adapt the program and curriculum to offer new ways to have meaningful interactions with students to create innovating ways of thinking through the Arts and build self-expression, research and exploration.