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2013 AOR Awards Announced
DREW Awards

Literary 

  • 1st Prize: True Dapilma “I Propose Peace” (spoken word)
  • Honorable Mention: Christine Chiosi “Double Bird Strike” (poem)

Performing

  • 1st Prize: Aubrey Fewell “Different Shades of Brown” (song)
  • Honorable Mention: Rachel Schachter “I Called to Say Goodbye” (song)

Visual

  • 1st prize: Michele Gamboa “Project Wings” (mixed media)
  • Honorable Mention: Lauren Belcastro “Namaste” (drawing)
  • Honorable Mention: EvaJo Alvarez  “Diversity” (photography)

High School Awards

Literary

  • 1st Prize: Josh Kimelman “The Egg Man” (poem) Millburn High School
  • Honorable Mention: Adam ElShaer “Different” (short story) Millburn High School

Performing

  • 1st Prize: Jalil Moultrie “My Respect” (monologue with dance) Barringer High School- Marion Bolden Center
  • 2nd Prize: Madelyne Montes “Identity” (spoken word) Morristown High School
  • 3rd Prize: RJ Gourdine “I’m Still Here” (monologue) Bard High/College – Marion Bolden Center

Visual

  • 1st Prize: Michelle Belgrod  “Burka on Mirror” (painting) Millburn High School
  • 2nd Prize: Penpitcha Pimonekaksom “Soldiers in Bones” (painting) Morristown High School
  • 3rd Prize: Leah O’Gorman “The Unseen” (painting) Madison High School
  • Honorable Mention: Kristi Maulding (painting) West Morris Central High School
  • Honorable Mention: Alissa Paulison Support and Unity Through Diversity” (painting) Wayne Valley Schools
  • Honorable Mention: Nevi Shah (dress) Morristown High School

2013 AOR FINALS

April 7, 2013 8 pm
Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Arts of Respect: Gallery Open through April 12
Library Lobby, Learning Center

April 5, 2013 8pm
Songs of Respect: musical works for Arts of Respect Kiwi Roots
The Space, Ehinger Center

April 9, 2013 7 pm
EOS Student Salon
The Directing Lab, Dorothy Young Center for the Arts

April 10, 2013 7 pminteraction
The Finals
Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

April 12, 2013 10 am
Sports of Respect: Race, Faith, and Baseball
Crawford Hall, Ehinger Center

March 20, 2013 4 pm
Round 1, 3/20-22
High School Theatre presentations

March 21, 2013 4 pm
Words of Respect: Reading with Reza Aslan and Literary Presentations for Arts of Respect
Mead Hall, Founders Room

The 2013 competition will award three first place prizes of $500 each in the following three categories:
literary, visual, performing arts

“There is much hatred in the world. People are looked upon as “different” because of their religion, their race, their behavior, their appearance, or…just because. Why?  I would like you to explore these issues, examine your thoughts and feelings and express them in an art form,in music, in theatre, in literature or in poetry.”  - Dr. Paul Drucker, Arts of Respect Sponsor

In a world plagued by prejudice, hatred and conflict, the visual, literary and performing arts provide a way to build bridges between people, to call us out of ourselves and into the imagination of others. The arts invite us to look at the world through different lenses, to hear its different rhythms, and to experience truths we might not otherwise contemplate. The arts have the ability to shake us out of complacency, and move us into constructive engagement with the world around us.

Drew University is pleased to announce an arts competition that is organized around the theme of respect.  With this competition we want to go beyond an invitation to end hatred, beyond promotion of mere tolerance, and move instead to a call for respect – self respect and respect for others across our many differences, across the identity markers of religion, ethnicity, gender, race, or nationality.  We invite Drew students to search their imaginations and flex their creative talents to produce artistic works that address in some way the theme of mutual respect.  Works may include any aspect of the visual, literary and performing arts.  The competition will draw students from all three of the university’s schools – the College of Liberal Arts, the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, and the Theological School – providing an opportunity for the display of the considerable talents of Drew students.  The series of events that we plan will also foster a greater understanding of how the arts can benefit our society, and spark our imagination in the building of better communities both here at Drew and beyond the University’s gates.

Co-sponsoring university departments and campus groups

  • Center on Religion, Culture & Conflict
  • Office of Religious Life
  • Center for Civic Engagement
  • Departments of Art, English, Music, and Theater in the College of Liberal Arts, and the Liturgical Studies Area of the Graduate Division of Religion
  • Drew Hillel – Organization for Jewish Life on Campus
  • Kuumba – African American student organization
  • DUDS – Drew University Dramatic Society
  • Ariel – Latin American student organization
  • MSA Muslim Student Association
  • InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
  • MESA – Middle East Student Association