The 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being celebrated with an art show in Orange Hall Gallery, SUNY Orange. The art reception is scheduled for Tuesday, December 5, 2023 from 4:30 to 6:30pm.

On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations stated to the world the first international recognition that all human beings have fundamental rights and freedoms. These are detailed in the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 

The Orange County Human Rights Commission (OCHRC) in collaboration with SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs and the Orange County Arts Council is presenting its annual art show,   

An Artist’s Response to Human Rights which has been on hiatus since the pandemic.

This exhibit offers Orange County high school students the opportunity of expressing their feelings about the importance of human rights in today’s world by depicting artworks and writing poems or essays about topics related to the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The artworks have been created in several mediums: paintings, drawings, collages, mixed media, found objects, ceramics, and clay.

Students participating in this year’s show represent the following schools: Minisink Valley High School, Washingtonville High School, Monroe-Woodbury High School, Storm King School, Cornwall Central High School, James I. O’Neill High School in Highland Falls, Pine Bush High School, Valley Central High School, and Newburgh Free Academy P-Tech. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

The exhibit is on view December 1, 2023 - January 5, 2024. Gallery hours December 1 - 15 are Monday-Thursday 8am-8pm, and Friday 8am-5pm. Dec18 - 21 and January 2 - 5 8am-5pm.

Downtime for holidays, (closed) December 22 - January 1.

Questions may be directed to cultural@sunyorange.edu

Orange Hall is located at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, (GPS: 24 Grandview Ave. -free parking in lot #1), Middletown. 

Art Credit: 

- In Sorrow's Embrace by Summer Flynn

- Lockdown by Emma Russell

- I AM NOT HAMAS by Charlie Hanus