Pelosi Announces Brandon Wu as Winner of 28th Annual Congressional Arts Competition

June 26, 2009

Pelosi Announces Brandon Wu as Winner of 28th Annual Congressional Arts Competition
Friday, June 26, 2009
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that the winner of the 28th annual Congressional Arts Competition from California's 8th Congressional district is Brandon Wu, a graduating senior from San Francisco's School of the Arts. His entry was an oil painting entitled Three Lanterns.
Since 1982, the annual Congressional Art Competition has provided an opportunity for high school students across the country to exhibit their creativity and compete for a chance to represent their Congressional district and exhibit their artwork in the Capitol. This year's local competition was hosted by the San Francisco Unified School District during the annual Young at Art festival displaying more than 2,000 pieces of art in at the DeYoung Museum located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
Three Lanterns
Brandon Wu's 19-by-25-inch painting will hang in the Cannon Tunnel for the next year. This tunnel joins the Cannon House Office Building to the United States Capitol, and gives visitors to the Capitol an opportunity to enjoy the exceptional artwork of young people from throughout the country.
A San Francisco native, Wu is the first generation of his family to be born in America. Both Wu's Chinese heritage and his hope for the future inspired the brightly colored painting, Three Lanterns. In the fall, he will attend Ã‚Â¬the Maryland Institute College of the Arts where he will study art.