The closure of the 13th Fajr Visual Arts Festival held on February 25th with Seyyed Abbas Salehi Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Deputy Minister of Culture for Art Affairs, Hadi Mozafari Director of the Culture Ministry's Visual Arts Office, and a limited group of artists participating attendance at Vahdat Hall.
During the ceremony, several speeches were broadcast in the form of recorded videos after that, a clip of the preparation of the festival was broadcast.
In the continuation of the appreciation ceremony, 9 honourable people of visual arts were held, and the high badge of visual arts and a plaque signed by the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance given to Garnik Darhakopian in the field of painting, Saeed Razaghi for Illustration, Ahmad Abdollahini for caricature, Jafar Najibi for sculpture and ceramics, Khashayar Ghazizadeh for Negargari, Ahmad Aghagholizadeh for graphics, Mohammad Hossein Heidari for photography, Mohammad Salhshour calligraphy, and Yaghoub Azhang was awarded in the research section.
In this ceremony, the book of the festival was unveiled in the section "Golden Touba" and also the book "Eidi-making" by Hassan Mohammadnejad was also honoured as one of the activists of manual printing.
There were also awards ceremonies for selected and acclaimed artists as follows:
Illustration:
Somayeh Zarei from Tehran
Farzaneh Neyshabouri from Yazd province
Calligraphy:
There was no selected artist in this field and Majid Dastani from Qom, Mahmoud Rahimi Ahd from Tehran and Mostafa Abedini from Qazvin were honored without priority.
New Art Media:
Maryam Yahaghi from Tehran
Ehsan Mahdavi from Khorasan Razavi
Ceramics:
In this field, three people were honored without ranking. Roghayeh Asadi from Tehran, Mohammad Reza Rondeh from Sistan & Baluchestan and Ahdollah Shokripour from Masouleh.
Graphic design:
Seyed Mostafa Kalantari and Mehrdad Mousavi from Tehran
Photography:
Elahe Abdullah Abadi from Tehran
Abdullah Heidari from Khorasan Razavi province.
Cartoon:
Abbas Naseri from North Khorasan
Mohammad Aflak from Alborz province
Sculpture:
Hedayat Sahraei from Tehran
Mostafa Mohseni from Alborz
Painting:
Elias Sattari from Tehran
Mohsen Taghizadeh from Fars
Negargari (traditional painting):
Mohammad Reza Aghamiri from Alborz
Zahra Doosti from Qazvin