Youth Art Month March 2011

Nicole Sattem-Crouch

Howard E. Heckethorn E.S.

• National Youth Art Month theme for 2010-2011

• Three teachers from CCSD came up with this theme while writing their thesis!!

• Often states use a unique YAM theme.

• In the past our flag has been designed by one young artist.

• This year it will be a collaboration of many!

• Inspired by our theme “Art Shapes Me” we will have our young artists design hand prints, varying in size depending on the grade level.

2011 Flag Timeline• Discuss YAM with your students and the importance

of the arts in schools

• Print out template and have your students draw, color, paint inside the handprint.

• Choose 20 winning designs. Try to select them from all grades. Send home the YAM permission slip.

• Submit up to 20 designs with permission slips to YAM Co-Chair by December 22, 2010

2011 National Youth Art Month Flag Event,

“School Flags Across the U.S….Flying High!”

• 25th year of the national YAM flag event

• Flags will be displayed March in Washington D.C. to celebrate

Create Student Art Inspired by the YAM Theme

• Think about the location and where the art will be displayed

• Individual art or collaborations

What can you do to celebrate YAM this March?

• Have a school wide art show• Team up with the other specialists and hold an arts festival• Display art in your community• Take a field trip to an art museum• Go outside and make art• Exchange art with another school• Make postcard art • Write letters to famous artists• Invite a local artist to your school• Create a mural • What’s your idea?

Showcase Student Art in the Community

• Contact local businesses about displaying work.

• At school, ask parents, family members, and family friends who own local businesses

Get Help!

• Send notes home about volunteering

• Have parents hang up art by March 1st and take down at the end of the month

(make a list of who is responsible for each location)

• Students will be SO proud to have their art on display in a public place

• Send home a list of all businesses celebrating YAM

• Include where classes are located

What can we as a district and state do to celebrate?

• Create a flag to be flown at the National Art Educators Conference, Seattle 2011

• District wide art show (K-12)• Arts festival• Art auction• Art parade• ?

Incentive to participate in YAM

• If you participate in YAM by – Submitting flag designs– Celebrate in your school and/or community– Submit photos of your YAM activities– Be a member of Art Educators of Nevada

You could win a free AEN Conference registration!! Up to $130 value!!

YAM Co-ChairsSouthern Nevada: Nicole Sattem-Crouch

Northern Nevada: Amber Urioste

http://artnevada.weebly.com/

*Contact Nicole Sattem-Crouch on Interact with questions or ideas. Look for reminders there too! Information and website also listed on handouts

nlsattemcrouch@interact.ccsd.net  

We need to ADVOCATE and PROMOTE

the arts in schools!

If we don’t,

then who will?