A huge thank you to our YAM prize sponsor:
Click HERE for important YAM dates!
Chair Contact: Michelle Barnes
What is Youth Art Month?
The Council for Art Education (CFAE) oversees Youth Art Month at the national level. Festivities take place each March to celebrate visual arts for grades PreK-12. OAEA helps sponsor multiple opportunities for you and your students including: Youth Arts Day at the State Capital, Youth Arts Month Flag Contest, Door Hangers for Advocacy, The Young People’s Art Exhibit, The State Superintendent Arts Showcase, and Awards Ceremonies.
The YAM program emphasizes the value of art education for all children, encourages support for quality school art programs, and promotes art material safety. YAM also provides a forum for recognizing skills developed through visual arts experiences that are not possible in other curriculum subjects.
Please download the YAM proclamation and ask a Mayor, Principal, Superintendent, City Counselor, or any other appropriate person in your community to proclaim Youth Art Month! And don’t forget to let your YAM chair people know about it.
OAEA would like to recognize Blick as the official prize sponsor of Youth Art Month. Be sure to check out all the great deals and variety of products that Blick has to offer!
Door Hangers
Students can illustrate ways to express themselves. Mail entries to Michelle Barnes: 4829 Elk Run Yukon, OK 73099. Email michellebarnes@cox.net.
Collected door hangers are used as arts advocacy tools at Youth Arts Day.
Please use CARDSTOCK if possible. Please have your Door Hangers delivered or mailed by Friday, February 16th. If mailing, please make sure to send the package 3 or more days before the 16th.
State Superintendent Art Showcase
PreK-6th Grade
2024 Showcase Name Tag Template
Form Due: Friday, February 23, 2024
Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony: Friday, March 8th, 2024. Oklahoma State Capital, 2nd floor rotunda. Youth Arts Day events begin at 10am. Superintendent Showcase student awards begin at 2:30pm.
Click here for the Reception Invitation
Passed 2024 YAM Events:
Young People’s Art Exhibit
Set aside 5 pieces of your best art work and enter into the Oklahoma Art Education Association Young People’s Art Exhibit. OAEA Members Only.
Saturday January 6, 2024
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The exhibit hangs at the Prairie Art Center in Stillwater. Get your art to a board member or bring your art to the Prairie Art Center at the very latest 12:00 pm on January 6th.
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5 pieces from OAEA members who enter, PreK-12, mounted or matted on black tag board or black mat board.
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Closing Ceremony on Saturday February 3rd, at 12:00 pm.
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The board will select 5 works from this show to go to the National Convention YAM display.
Our generous sponsor Blick Art Materials is providing awards.
YAM 2024 : Ways You Can Participate
Youth Arts Month Flag Design
As a member of OAEA, you and your students are encouraged to participate in YAM and do your part to further Art Education! Each state’s winning design is made into a 3’x5’ flag and showcased at the upcoming NAEA National Convention. This year’s flag contest is open for all students, with 1st place winners in elementary, middle, and high levels who each receive a small printed flag of their design. This year the overall winner to hang at National is Elementary.
Entries should use the template below, be intense in color, and can include the phrase “Dream in Art” and represent Oklahoma in content or imagery. This contest is for OAEA Members only. All Completed entries are due by Friday January 24, 2024.
Mail entries to Michelle Barnes 4829 Elk Run Yukon, OK 73099. Email me at michellebarnes@cox.net