Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Children’s
Poster and Essay Contest
January
22 – February 16, 2013
Perspective Gallery/VT 2nd Floor Squires
You are
invited to an opening reception:
January 22 from 4 – 6 p.m.
Food and refreshments served
Children’s drawing wall
Free and open to the public. Live acoustic guitar by Sharon Stacy
Perspective
Gallery, in conjunction with the Virginia Tech Office of Diversity and Inclusion
is presenting the 8th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. k-12 poster and
essay contest exhibit. The show will run from January 22 – February 16, 2013. An
opening reception will be held on January 22 as part of Virginia Tech’s
week-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the March on
Washington.
This
year’s celebration is titled; Commemorating the March on Washington, D.C.:
Leading Social Change 50 Years Later.
Events
are geared toward honoring King’s legacy of service, education, and nonviolent
social change. The list of events includes the popular poster and essay contests
that are open to all area kindergarten through 12th-grade students, and will
feature a new oratorical component for high school students.
“We
chose a general theme this year,” said Adrien DeLoach, associate director in the
Office for Diversity and Inclusion, “so that the students could use their
imaginations and go in many directions when planning their posters, essays, and
oratorical pieces. We hope to encourage students to learn that King stood for
addressing controversy with civility and embraced principles of civil
disobedience much like Mahatma Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, and
Ernest Hemingway, and we did not want to limit them to only a specific theme
such as the Civil Rights Movement.”
The
2012 contest yielded a total of 633 entries from 26 schools. This year there
were a total of 768 entries from 26 schools with a significant increase seen in
the number of essays submitted.
Robin
Scully Boucher M.F.A./Art
Program Director
/Perspective
Gallery
Squires
Student Center/Virginia
Tech
540.231.4053
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