The Rosa Parks Presentations and Awards Ceremony was held Tuesday, April 12 in Rosch Recital Hall, honoring the three students whose works brought them each a $350 prize, as well as the American woman who made history in the Civil Rights era.
President Dennis L. Hefner presented the awards to the winners of the 2011 Rosa Parks Competition.
They were junior and art history major Dana Tyrrell, senior animation major Webster Thomas, and sophomore music education major Laura Evans.
Mr. Tyrrell's project was a photographic series entitled, "No H8 Campaign at SUNY Fredonia."
Mr. Thomas submitted artwork entitled, "Freedom Fighter."
Ms. Evans submitted a short story entitled, "Live Til the End."
The judges this year were Averl Otis, Linda Phillips, Anne Fearman, and Timothy Levonyan Radloff. Closing remarks were made by one of last year's Rosa Parks Competition winners, Fred Polone.
Jasmine Ranjitsingh, a graduate assistant in the Center for Multicultural Affairs, coordinated this year’s competition.
The competition was founded in 1989 to honor Parks, an African-American Civil Rights activist whose act of civil disobedience – not surrendering her seat on a bus to a white passenger -- led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 and helped launch the modern day Civil Rights Movement.
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From left to right are Laura Evans, Webster Thomas and Dana Tyrrell. |
