First muban awards artists announced

Seventy eight final year undergraduate and post-graduate students representative of academies of art in many parts of China responded to the initial notification of the Award with a selection of their current work as digital images. Working from these images a short list of twenty applicants was agreed. Each of the short listed students were then asked to send three original prints that they considered best represented their use of the medium of the woodblock print.

In late February 2015, the Muban Educational Trust announced the two winners of the Awards as Guo Shuang, a student at the Si Chuan Academy of Fine Arts in Chongqing and Wu Jiantang studying at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.