The Defender of the People, Ángel Gabilondo, has emphasized the role of artistic education in the Awards of the School Drawing Contest on Human Rights. Additionally, Gabilondo, at an event held at the institution’s headquarters, stated that this contest is «an explicit recognition of artistic creation, artistic education, and its teachers.» He also highlighted that «drawing requires the intervention of all senses.» «It is necessary to draw with all five senses, and it is necessary to make one’s own life a work of art,» he added.
He also congratulated the participants, encouraging them to continue drawing and learning because «to know how to learn is as important as allowing yourselves to be taught with humility.»
In this edition, 2,720 students – 1,831 from Primary, 839 from Secondary, and 50 from Special Education – from 191 schools participated, resulting in seven winning drawings. Since the creation of this award, whose purpose is to promote knowledge of human rights among students, more than 58,000 students from 3,800 schools, institutes, and special education centers have participated.
In the category of Primary Education, the drawings of Mariló Saavedra from Sagrado Corazón School in Bailén (Jaén), Alonso Pavón from Alarcos de Valverde School in Ciudad Real, and Martina Bañón from Alcázar y Serrano School in Caudete (Albacete) were awarded. Meanwhile, in the Secondary Education category, the works of María Almuiña from Gonzalo Torrente Ballester High School in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid), Juan García from Escolapias Sotillo School in Logroño, and Carla Forero from Santa Teresa School in Badajoz were awarded. Additionally, in the Special Education category, the winner was Adrián Espiñeira from O Pino CEE in Ourense.
The Jury was chaired by the Defender of the People, Ángel Gabilondo, and included as members the gallery owner Isabel Azcárate; the director of the Association Debajo del Sombrero, Lola Barrera; the painter Hernán Cortés; the teacher Vicente Ferrer; the cartoonist José María Gallego; the illustrator Marta Marbán; the sculptor Jacobo Castellano; Alicia Koplowitz, and the president of the UNICEF Spain Board, Gustavo Suárez-Pertierra. Furthermore, the meeting of the Jury was attended by the professor Arturo Arnau, as secretary, and the high school teacher of Plastic and Visual Education, Gonzalo Panzano, as technical advisor.
In the award ceremony, in addition to the Defender of the People, the teachers from Alcázar y Serrano School in Caudete (Albacete), Francisca López, and Inmaculada Sánchez; the award-winning students Martina Bañón and Mariló Saavedra; the Jury member, Jacobo Castellano, and the Jury’s secretary, Arturo Arnau, intervened.
This initiative fulfills one of the missions promoted by the Defender of the People as the National Institution of Human Rights (INDH) in Spain: the promotion and dissemination of human rights, especially in the educational field.
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