Library to Host Human Rights Art Competition Award

Tompkins County Public Library, in partnership with the Tompkins County Office of Human Rights and the Dorothy Cotton Institute, will host the 2015 Human Rights Art Competition Awards Ceremony, Thursday, December 10 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Avenue of the Friends.

The 28^th Annual Human Rights Art Competition is designed to encourage students in grades kindergarten through 12 to explore issues central to universal—civil, political, economic, social and cultural—rights.  The United Nations’ 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights served as inspiration for this year’s artists.

Award recipients were announced December 3 and will be feted during the awards ceremony.  The ceremony is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be provided.

For more information, contact the Office of Human Rights at (607) 277-4080 or Mary McKeon at the Library at mmckeon@tcpl.org.