2017 Youth Art Month

The Youth Art Month Celebration will be here before we know it!!!

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, February 25, 1:00-2:30 pm  at the  Topeka State Capital, 2nd floor Please park and enter through the North Side. ALL KANSAS ART EDUCATORS: 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. Please plan on participating by honoring ONE of your students from each building in which you teach by exhibiting their artwork at the Youth Art Month Celebration at the capital building. 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 art work in person on February 24th, from 4-8 pm to the Clubhouse Inn in Topeka.   *OR if that does not work, we will accept artwork by 8:00 am at the state capitol on Saturday, February 25th. KAEA MEMBERS:   As part of your KAEA members benefit we would like to invite member teachers to submit your students work to the  "YAM Virtual Gallery"  for the KAEA Youth Art Month Celebration!  Each teacher is allowed to enter three pieces of art work from each building they teach in.  You may submit up to three pictures for one piece of 3D work.  Along with the photos, please clearly label each piece with: Student Name, Teacher Name, School Name, Title of Work, Media. You must also submit an "artist release form" for each student.  This can be found on the YAM page on the website (left side).  Please note, artwork submitted to the virtual gallery should be different from the one piece of physical artwork you bring to the YAM celebration in Topeka.  Please e-mail artwork & a digital copy of the form to: Kate Miller   kmiller@usd415.org     with YAM Virtual Gallery in the subject line.    Deadline, February 17 "Youth Art Month Art Competition" 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 Best of Show award courtesy of Sargent Art. This year the Best of Show recipient will receive a $1500.00 cash prize!! "NAEA Kansas Youth Art Month Exhibit" Teachers are invited to submit student work for exhibit at the National Convention in New York City.  Please send one or two digital images of your student's artwork that you would like have included in our state's exhibit.  Please include: your name, student's name, school name, student's grade level, title of work, and media. Send images no later than February 17th to: Lana Kaylor at kaylorl@usd385.org Please edit (crop, color adjust, etc.) your images as you would like them to print. Kansas Youth Art MONTH Celebrations (All Educators) Help Kansas celebrate the visual arts by putting up an art display in your school, 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!   Youth Art Month Scrapbook: 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 CLICK HERE to fill out a google doc to help us with our record keeping as required by our donors. If you would like to help with YAM please contact:  Lynn Felts 620-229-1309 or lynnfelts@cox.net

#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

2016 Kansas YAM Flag Winner

The results are in for the 2016 Youth Art Month Flag Design Contest. 208 entries were received and judging took place December 1st. The panel of judges was extremely impressed with the quality of the flag designs. The results of the 2016 Youth Art Month Flag Design Contest are listed below.

Congratulations to all the winning students and their art teachers! All winners will be honored at the Youth Art Month Day at the State Capitol in Topeka on Saturday, March 5th. All entries will be included in a digital display at the YAM event. Details for this event will be posted on the KAEA website closer to March. 

2016 Youth Art Month Winning Flag Design—Morgan Winters, 12^th grader at Andover Central High School, student of Mrs. Pat Chambers!! 

Elementary Category

1^st Place—Kaydra Woods, West Bourbon ES, Uniontown, KS, 6^th Grade, teacher Chris Woods

2^nd Place—Casey Spencer, Ewalt ES, Augusta, KS, 5^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

3^rd Place—Karleigh Buthner, Garfield ES, Augusta, KS 5^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

HM—Elyssa Sledge, Garfield ES, Augusta, KS 4^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

HM—Addie Martin, West Bourbon ES, Uniontown, KS, 6^th Grade, teacher Chris Woods

HM—Grace Duncan, Garfield ES, Augusta, KS 5^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

HM—Laney Covey, West Bourbon ES, Uniontown, KS, 6^th Grade, teacher Chris Woods

HM—Rylan Rush, Ewalt ES, Augusta, KS, 5^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

HM—Javin Rowland, Ewalt ES, Augusta, KS, 4^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

HM—Jadyn Stevenson, Ewalt ES, Augusta, KS, 5^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

Middle School Category

1st Place—Melissa Sharp, California Trail MS, Olathe, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Wendleton

2^nd Place—Mariah Dominguez, Ruppenthal MS, Russell, KS, 6^th Grade, teacher Cindy Balthazor

3^rd Place—Nicole Henderson, Derby MS, Derby, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Highfield

HM—Savanna Nichols, Augusta MS, Augusta, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Johnna Smith

HM—Valrey Peebler, Derby MS, Derby, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Highfield

HM—Keith McCullough, Derby MS, Derby, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Highfield

HM—Vanessa Herrada, Derby MS, Derby, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Highfield

HM—Savannah Tredway, Derby MS, Derby, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Highfield

HM—Lauren Cabrera, California Trail MS, Olathe, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Wendleton

HM—Zoe Kulphongpatana, California Trail MS, Olathe, KS, 8^th Grade, teacher Megan Wendleton

High School Category

1st Place—Morgan Winters, Andover Central HS, Andover, KS, 12^th Grade, teacher Pat Chambers

2^nd Place—Cassidy O’Neill, Douglass HS, Douglass, KS, 12^th Grade, teacher Emily Young

3^rd Place—Emma Lou Graham, Cheney HS, Cheney, KS, 11^th Grade, teacher Shawny Montgomery

HM—Sarah Gegen, Cheney HS, Cheney, KS, 11^th Grade, teacher Shawny Montgomery

HM—Emily Monson, Cheney HS, Cheney, KS, 10^th Grade, teacher Shawny Montgomery

HM—Macy Wallace, Cheney HS, Cheney, KS, 11^th Grade, teacher Shawny Montgomery

HM—Shylah McKay, Cheney HS, Cheney, KS, 12^th Grade, teacher Shawny Montgomery

YAM- 2015 Sargent Art Contest Winners!

 On Saturday, March 7, art teachers, student artists, and their families from across the state gathered at the Capitol for the annual Youth Art Month celebration. Every art teacher in the state is invited to select one piece of student art (per school in which they teach) to display in an art show. For the last several years, there has been an art contest sponsored by Sargent Art. Students of KAEA members are eligible for contest prizes. The grand prize winner, their parent, and their art teacher, even win a trip to NYC! Here is a list of the winners in each category and some of the photos.

ELEMENTARY

	Student Name/ Artwork	Grade level	School/ District	Teacher Name
1st	Cami Lux “Lion”	K	Pleasant Hill Elem/ Seaman	Jean Regnier
2nd	Korri Lies “Portrait of an Owl”	5	Cheney Elem/ Cheney	Isaac Shue
3rd	Faith Holthaus “Tree of Life”	6	Auburn Elem/ Auburn/Washburn	Charleen Stessman
HM	Sevryn Cadwell “Petal Madness”	4	Griffith Elem/ Wichita	Kathryn Janzen
HM	Amelia Glenn “Primary Shape Art”	K	Crestview Elem/ Shawnee Mission	Heather Huettner
HM	Rachel Osborn “Harmony of Hands”	6	Jay Shideler Elem/ Auburn/Washburn	Charleen Stessman

MIDDLE SCHOOL

	Student Name/ Artwork	Grade level	School/ District	Teacher Name
1st	McKenna Riggins “Hope”	8	Washburn Rural Middle/ Auburn/Washburn	Sharon Miller
2nd	Julia Huff “Peace, Love, & Understanding”	7	Leawood Middle/ Blue Valley	So Choi
3rd	Makenna Rohr “Princess Metternich Zentangle”	8	Harmony Middle/ Blue Valley	Robin Kingeter
HM	Breanna Losey “Stripes of Friendship”	8	Grinnell Middle/ Grinnell	Ronna Schultz
HM	Max Logan “Becoming Shakespeare”	8	Hutchinson Middle/ Hutchinson	Kylee Baldetti
HM	Raegan Bailey “Self-portrait”	8	Goddard Middle/ Goddard	Angie Mitchell

High School 1st place and Sargent Art Grand Prize Winning artwork by Samantha Brown

HIGH SCHOOL

	Student Name/ Artwork	Grade level	School/ District	Teacher Name
1st	Samantha Brown “Bubblegum Princess 2”	12	Augusta High/ Augusta	Andra Shelite
2nd	Wesley Johnson “Anomaly”	12	Washburn Rural High/ Auburn/Washburn	Brad Leduc
3rd	Harrison Berggren “Printer’s Lair”	12	Shawnee Mission West High/ Shawnee Mission	Greg Schieszer
HM	Michaela Nietfeld “Save Our Souls”	12	Uniontown High/ Uniontown	Chris Woods
HM	Chloe Sotomayor “Winston”	12	Lawrence High/ Lawrence	Wendy Leet Vertachik
HM	Talisa Hernandez “untitled”	12	Goddard High/ Goddard	Melanie Huffman

You can view more photos from #KSYAM2015 HERE.