"Crama Oprișor Awards for Contemporary Drawing" is a private initiative, which has been designed, from the beginning, as a contribution to the development of the social-artistic involvement and support for young students and graduates of higher artistic education institutions in Romania. If the first edition of the competition (2017) was held in collaboration with the National University of Arts in Bucharest, this year's edition benefits from the partnership with the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca.

UAD Cluj-Napoca is one of the most important and original drawing resources, the "The Cluj School" influencing, over the time, the vision and expressive means of the Romanian art. It is, in this context, extremely relevant the role of the organizers to encourage contemporary creation, in the period of artistic formation, and for this reason the competition is addressed to the students and graduates of the art university in Cluj-Napoca.

Out of more than 60 applications, 33 young artists, painters, graphic designers or sculptors, passionate about drawing, were selected for exhibition and final judging.

With a large prize pool, which is in line with similar concepts in Europe, three awards will be given at the end of the competition:

- Crama Oprișor’s Grand Prize for Contemporary Drawing worth 3,000 euros gross, awarded to an artist chosen by the appointed jury;

- UAD Cluj-Napoca’s Special Prize – Crama Oprișor for Contemporary Drawing worth 1500 euros gross, awarded to an artist chosen by the jury appointed and

- Special Audience Award – Crama Oprișor for Contemporary Drawing worth 1500 euros gross, handed to an artist chosen by public vote on the platform https://www.crama-oprisor.ro/premiile

The artists on display are Iulia Alexandru, Ana-Maria Bozdog, Adrian Buda, Denisa Ceascai, Costel Chițimuș, Vlad Drăghici, Călin Dumitrașcu, Carla Forrai, Diana Grigorescu, Răzvan Liță, Mathé László, Ciprian Memei, Mihaela Mihalache, David Miholcsa, Rada Niță, Mihai Nuțu, Raluca Pavelescu, Matei Păcurar, Adriana Mihaela Pop, Ana Pop, Mara Popa, Lucian Popăilă, Maximilian Pintea, Diana Popuț, Ana Postolachi, Postumia Rus, Mădălina Stan, George Sorinca, Sevan Szekely, Tania Șimonca, Diana Șinteuan, Flavia Tritean, Tusai István.

Exhibition Commissioner: Alexandra Sârbu, art historian and museographer - The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca

Presented by Professor Radu Moraru, PhD, Associate Professor Mara Rațiu, PhD, Professor Radu Solovăstru, PhD (The University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca), Gabriel Roceanu (Crama Oprișor) and Professor Lucian Nastasă-Kovács, PhD, historian and manager of the prestigious Art Museum in Cluj-Napoca.