#KSYAM16 Details

Dear Fellow Kansas Art Educators:

It's time to celebrate our profession and our student's accomplishments.

Please join the Kansas Art Education Association for our 

Annual Youth Art Month Celebration

Saturday, March 5th

1:30-3:30

at the Topeka State Capitol, 2nd floor.

Please park and enter through the North Side

Every Art Teacher in the state of Kansas is eligible to 

enter one work of art from 

ONE student in every school that you teach in.  

Labels for the artwork and an invitation can be printed from our website:

http://kaea.com/yam.html

 

There are area YAM representatives listed on the website that are willing to take your artwork to Topeka for you.  Simply contact them for delivery.

*OR you can deliver your artwork in person on March 4th, 

from 4-8 pm to the Clubhouse Inn in Topeka.

*If that does not work, we will accept artwork by 8:00 am  

at the state capitol on March 5th. 

KAEA Members:

Remember that you can also enter an additional work of art into the:

KAEA Virtual YAM Gallery

Send those entries to Kate Miller

at kmiller@usd415.org

In the subject line, put Virtual Gallery.  Include a jpeg of the artwork (1 for 2-Dwork and up to 3 for 3-D work from different angles), student name, grade, artwork title, medium, school name and your name.  

Deadline, March 1st.

KAEA Members' students are also eligible to win First, Second, and Third place prizes in the Elementary, Middle, and Secondary levels provided by Sargent Art, Nasco and Molly Hawkins.  One student will be awarded a Grand Prize of an all-expenses paid trip to New York City for the student, one parent and the art teacher courtesy of Sargent Art.

Local Youth Art Month Celebrations

Help Kansas celebrate the visual arts by putting up an art display in your school, at a school board meeting or somewhere in your community.  Make sure that you mention that March is Youth Art Month.  Add some advocacy materials and put up the National Visual Arts Standards.  Call your local paper or add something to your school website, newsletter, or newspaper.  Get some coverage for your students and your art program...be your own best advocate!  Share all of your accomplishments with us by documenting what you have done and send that information to:  Megan Wendleton at meganwendleton@hotmail.com

so that we can include you in our YAM report.

Please fill out this google doc to help us with our record keeping:  

https://docs.google.com/a/usd289.org/forms/d/1asH3rvtLVekjmhF4nfCIefvu4Dl4LYf9wxzH9HjTqvU/viewform?c=0&w=1

If you would like to help with

YAM, please contact:

Lynn Felts at 620-229-1309 or lynnfelts@cox.net

YAM CD Weaving Installation

Three schools (Hutchinson, Oxford, and Wellsville) from across Kansas met today at the Kansas Capitol in Topeka to complete a CD weaving installation sculpture. The students worked from 9:00a until 11:30a tying the individual weavings together into a large tapestry. There were nearly 600 weavings between all of the participating schools (those unattended were Pittsburg State University, Troy, and Osawatomie).

The weavings will be in the capitol until Saturday, March 7^th for the celebration of Youth Art Month. Parents and students are encouraged to attend! 

Students assemble the CD weavings

How awesome for our students! Thank you for your continued support in our arts,Mrs. DeAnna Morgan

Wellsville High School/ Wellsville Middle School

KAEA YAM Gallery

You're invited to enter one student artist's work from every building you teach at into the Kansas Art Education Associations Youth Art Month Gallery. 

Please send one jpeg of your entry to Katie Miller at kmiller@usd415.org, in the subject line please put YAM virtual gallery. If you are entering a three-dimensional work you may include three jpegs from various angles to be included on one slide.

In your email include the name of the student, title of work, medium,  school name, grade and teachers name. 

Three random winners from the entries will be awarded prizes  at the Youth Art Month Celebration on March 1, 2014 at the state capital. The virtual gallery will be on display at the capital on March 1, 2014 and entries for the virtual gallery will become part of the KAEA YAM gallery at the national convention in San Diego on March 28-31 and the on the KAEA web site. 

Please submit all entries by Feb. 20, 2014. Contact Katie Miller with any questions. kmiller@usd415.org

YAM Displays

Bulletin board by Katie Morris, Pauline South Intermediate School

As you plan and work on wonderful Youth Art Month displays, bulletin boards, and events, remember your camera! You can submit photos to share with other KAEA members. Your photo could be featured on the KAEA blog and on our Facebook page, maybe even as our new cover photo! Photos can be submitted at www.Facebook.com/KansasAEA or by email to catharine.morris@yahoo.com. You can also email your photos to smontgomery@cheney268.com with your YAM Documentation Report Form to be part of the KAEA Youth Art Month scrapbook. (Access the form at http://kaea.com/yam.html)

Bulletin board by Katie Morris, Pauline Central Primary School

2013 Youth Art Month Celebration

It's that time of the year again---time to be thinking about participating in the

  2013 Youth Art Month Celebration 

to be held

in Topeka 

on

Saturday, March 2nd.

  The YAM booklet and forms have been updated and are ready for you online at http://kaea.com/yam.html

I have tweaked the entry form we need for display so that we can utilize our display space better.  You will need to fill out pages 14 through 16 in the YAM booklet.  The rest is just general information and things you can use for YAM.  

It might take a little while to load on to your computer as it is a large, but helpful document.  

We are again sponsored by "Sargent Art" and they are generously offering a grand prize trip to New York City as well as art supplies to the other place winners.  Remember that you do have to be an active member of KAEA in order participate in the YAM Art Competition.  However, every single art teacher in the state is invited and encouraged to submit ONE piece of student art to represent your school during the YAM celebration.

Sincerely,

Shawny Montgomery

KAEA YAM Chair

Vincent YAM-Gogh

Vincent YAM-Gogh will once again be attendance assisting in handing out the awards and will be available for photo opportunities.

Other Recognitions The YAM flag awards donated by Molly Hawkins Wholesale will be awarded during the celebration. The Harry Hart Memorial Senior Scholarships will also be awarded during the celebration.

National Education Association Convention YAM Participation We are planning on having a virtual gallery and a display representing KANSAS at the National convention in Fort Worth in March. If you would like to participate, you can send ONE digital photograph of a student's art (include your name, school name, and the student's name and grade) to  Shawny Montgomery at  smontgomery@cheney268.com  by January 30th.

YAM  opportunity through the Council for Art Education

This year the Council for Art Education is encouraging art teachers all across the country to participate in a  national campaign for the first time ever.  With ties to Teas and the NAEA Convention being held in Ft. Worth, we are pursuing country music superstars Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert.  We are in hopes that they will agree to be our Honorary National Chairpersons and at the very least they will endorse Youth Art Month. If you are interested in participating in this event or would just like to find out more information, go to the YAM page on the KAEA website at http://kaea.com/yam.html