This document provides information about Youth Art Month (YAM) celebrations planned for March 2011. It discusses the theme "Art Shapes Me" and plans for students to design handprints to collaborate on a national flag. A timeline is provided for the flag submission process. The document encourages various ways for schools and districts to celebrate YAM, such as art shows, festivals, field trips, and community art displays. It promotes advocacy for the arts in schools and provides contact information for YAM co-chairs.

1. Youth Art Month March
2011
Nicole Sattem-Crouch
Howard E. Heckethorn E.S.

2. • 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.

4. • 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.

6. 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

7. 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

8. Create Student Art Inspired by
the YAM Theme
• Think about the
location and where
the art will be
displayed
• Individual art or
collaborations

9. 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?

10. 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

11. 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)

12. • 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

13. 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
• ?

14. 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!!

15. YAM Co-Chairs
Southern 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

16. We need to
ADVOCATE and PROMOTE
the arts in schools!
If we don’t,
then who will?