Youth Art Month
FAEA is proud to announce the winner of the 2022 YAM Flag Design Competition, 9th-grader Saniya Jones from Davenport High School in Polk County! Congratulations to Saniya and her teacher, Joshua Steele.
Representing the state of Florida, Saniya's flag, Tropics, will be displayed with other state YAM flags during the 2022 National Art Education Association (NAEA) Convention in New York City in March.
This year's theme is "Art Connects Us."
Competition Guidelines:
The Florida Art Education Association invites all art educators to participate in YAM activities! Celebrations can be as simple as a single class learning activity that focuses attention on the value of arts; or celebrations can involve collaborations that result in multi-school art exhibits. You can start with one thing that you already are doing successfully and design a way to share the value gained by your students- with parents, with school administrators, with the community, and/or with politicians.
Youth Art Month is celebrated during the month of March, but art successes from any time of the year deserve recognition. Please send a picture, description, and/or media article about advocacy events to info@faea.org, and it will be included in Florida's YAM national report. Label your email with the title 'YAM Event' and send it in anytime.
YAM Issuing and Using a Proclamation
YAM Sample Proclamation Request Letter
YAM Sample Proclamation Language
YAM Sample Certificate of Recognition
YAM How to Submit a Press Release
A national arts advocacy program, Youth Art Month was initiated in 1961 by the ACMI (Art and Craft Materials Institute.) The CAE, (Council for Art Education, Inc.) administers the program along with the sponsorship of NAEA.
The goals of Youth Art Month are: