"Congratulations! We are pleased to informe you that your art submission has been selected for the 2024 exhibition "Embracing our Differences". This will be our 21st year celebrating diversity, inclusion, kindness and respect.

The winning selection (50 entries) for the 2024 exhibition was chosen from 16,604 entries from 125 countries around the world. All the winning selections will be exhibited in Sarasota, Florida at Bayfront Park from 21 January to 14 April 2024 and in St Petersburg, Florida at Poynter Park from 2 March to 31 March 2024. ..."

I received this email a few weeks ago. It's a great pleasure and honour to be one of the 50 exhibitors selected out of more than 16000 entries! I am very grateful.


Embracing Our Differences is a Southwest Florida-based nonprofit organization that uses the power of art and education to celebrate and promote our individuality and our common humanity.

They accomplish this through an annual, large-scale, juried exhibition and a comprehensive series of educational initiatives, programs and resources designed for teachers and students. Through the transformative power of the arts they educate and inspire to create a better world, this is their mission. Their vision is a world that embraces diversity, respects differences and actively rejects hatred and prejudice.