March is Youth Art Month!


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** Please Note YAM 2012 Registration is NOW OPEN.**
Art Work Drop Off - Tuesday Feb. 28, 3pm-5pm
Family Reception - Sunday March 11, 1pm-4pm
Teen Reception - Thursday March 15, 5pm-7pm
Art Pick-up - Thursday March 30 **
Youth Art Month 2012

Hello everyone,

The YAM events are quickly approaching and we are looking for your help to create the next Massachusetts YAM flag for 2012. The YAM committee is looking forward to another successful year and we ask for your support through participation in the flag design and the annual exhibit at the WAM. The 2012 national Youth Art Month flag event theme will be "Art Shapes the World"

This will be the twenty third consecutive year that the Council for Art Education has held a national flag event! The winner of the flag design will have their design made into a 3' x 5' flag that will be flown in Washington D.C. throughout the month of March. There will be a flag raising ceremony in Washington D.C. to honor the talanted students who designed their state's 2012 flag. The flags will then be on display at the NAEA Convention this spring. Participation in the YAM flag design event is a wonderful opportunity to promote your schools art department and to support the YAM events-somebody must be the winner. Please take part in promoting the importance of art education at a state and national level and participate in as many public venues as possible. We, as art educators, must show everyone just how important art education is to our society, our future work force, and the students we teach. March is Youth Art Month-celebrate!!

YAM flag design template.

Mail to: Mailing info is on the template.
Kerry Bart-Raber
Hubbardston Central School
8 Elm Street
Hubbardston, MA 01452

We are also very excited to announce that we will be offering prizes at this year's Exhibition, thanks to Sargent Art Supplies. See more infomation below.

For more ideas and information on how you can participate in YAM contact me to find out ways that you can become more involved in the YAM events that are happening in Central Massachusetts.

Save the dates for all the YAM events: If you have any question please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for your participation,
Kerry Bart-Raber and the YAM committee.
youthartmonth@yahoo.com


Newly added prize structure as offered by Sargent Art

All MAEA current members, Kindergarten through Grade 12, are eligible to submit their student artwork for this contest.

All aspects of the MAEA 2012 YAM Art Contest to be determined by MAEA with the exception of the prize structure offered by Sargent Art®.

Please visit the MAEA website - www.massarted.com - for details regarding categories, theme, eligibility, deadline, judging and other guidelines.

Prize structure from Sargent Art

** One Top Prize: A trip to visit New York Art Museums for one overall winner along with the Art Teacher and one parent of the winning student
** One Prize in each Category: Elementary, Middle and High: Winner's Certificate for the winner as well as Sargent Art supplies for the winner and the Art Teacher
** Details of the 2012 Top Prize – The trip to visit New York Art Museums would include the following
** Airline ticket from a USA airport nearest to the school to a New York area airport and back for the winning student, one parent and Art teacher booked and paid by Sargent Art
** Hotel in the New York area for the winner and one parent in one room; and for Art teacher in a separate room – both rooms paid by Sargent Art
** Transportation from New York area airport to the hotel and back to the airport arranged by Sargent Art
** All meals arranged and paid by Sargent Art
** Transportation and entries to the pre-decided Art Museums in New York arranged and paid by Sargent Art
** Possibility of including a sightseeing trip to see a famous monument like the Statue of Liberty at the discretion of Sargent Art


Sargent Art Terms and Conditions related to the Prize Structure offered by Sargent Art for 2012 MAEA YAM Art Contest:

** All aspects of eligibility of Artwork is final and binding by MAEA guidelines
** Prize structure offered by Sargent Art (details, value and actual items) to be decided only by Sargent Art – All decisions final
** All persons traveling to visit New York Art Museums (student, parent and teacher) are required to sign a Waiver of Liability to be eligible to receive this prize; not signing the Waiver of Liability will result in forfeiture of the prize and the New York Art Museums trip
** All prizes are non-transferable, non-changeable, and non-negotiable. No substitutions will be made.
** Any conflict with the dates of the New York Art Museums trip will result in the forfeiture of the prize and the New York Art Museums trip
** All decisions regarding details of the New York Art Museums trip, the Grand Prize, (including but not limited to dates, timings, airline, hotel, eating/dining places, and transportation) to be decided by Sargent Art – No individual requests will be entertained
** Any disabilities, medical conditions, special requirements to be communicated to Sargent Art within one week of announcement of the Prizes; delay in communicating the aforementioned will result in forfeiture of the prize and the New York Art Museums trip.
** The Grand Prize winning student will travel with the parent – in the event of either one (winning student or parent) requiring or being unable to travel to New York, both the student and parent will forfeit the prize and the New York Art Museums trip irrespective of the age of the student.
** No additional person would be permitted to travel with the Grand Prize winner, parent of the winner or the teacher of the Grand Prize winner - No individual requests will be entertained.
** Sargent Art reserves the indisputable right to change the terms and conditions of the prize structure offered for the 2012 MAEA YAM Art Contest at any time with mutual agreement with the signees of MAEA.
Upcoming Events

NEXT MAEA Board Meeting will be at the Boston Transportation Building at 4pm on Feb. 15, 2012. (more info...)


Featured Student



A student of Ms. Barbara Marder at the John F. Kennedy School, Samantha Bukay-Souza, had her artwork selected for the program cover of the Arts Education Partnership Fall National Forum, "Charting a Course for the Arts in 21st Century Learning". On Saturday October 3, 2009, she was awarded a certificate and a prize for $100.00 at a reception held at The Hotel Marlowe, Cambridge, MA. Ms. Marder was also recognized as her art teacher at the Kennedy School. Currently Samantha is a student at Somerville High School.

Featured Teacher

In this space, we'd like to feature MAEA members who have something special that they?d like to share...

Have you recently completed a new body of artwork? Completed a hard-earned degree? Traveled to an interesting location to make art? Studied with an artist whose work you?ve admired from afar? Seen or been part of a wonderful exhibit? Read a great (art-related) book, or discovered some other resource that the rest of us should know about? Planning to teach a workshop where the rest of us can get PDPs? Been published?

Whatever your exciting news, we?d love to have it in this space! *Please sign release form before sending images/information. (For now?please use the NAEA form; we will have an MAEA form to use shortly.)

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