Youth Art Month

Student Art Exhibition at the Indiana Statehouse

Miss Elizabeth Kanemitsu of Highland Hills Middle School is the Indiana WINNER of the YAM Flag Design Contest held at the AEAI Convention in November. The seventh grade artist’s work will be transferred into “flag form” and represent our great state at AEAI National Convention. Congratulations to Art Educator, Trish Korte, too!

Youth Art Month 2018-19 Flag Design
"Your Art, Your Story"

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Schools throughout the U.S. are holding flag design competitions! Each state will select a winning flag design, which will be made into a flag and flown with other winning flags representing all states during March - Youth Art Month.
Entries should be in color, contain theme "Your Art, Your Story", and contain the text “Indiana” and “Youth Art Month” in the design. This year’s competition is again open to grades K-12 but each teacher may only submit four flags per school in which they teach. AEAI members should send their flags to, Carrie Billman, Lantern Road E. S. 10595 Lantern Road, Fishers, IN 46037, by October 26, 2018 or bring designs to the AEAI Convention.
Teachers attending the convention in November will judge the flags.

Eligibility: Open to all students of AEAI members in grades K-12. Participating art educators must be members of AEAI to participate! Join or renew today!
Submissions: Please limit submissions to five (5) works per school, per teacher. Works must be two-dimensional and the overall size of the matted work should not exceed 3 feet (includes matting).
Submission Deadline: TBA
Presentation: Matte or mount work on lightweight matte or Bristol board. Do not use colored paper, foam core, canvas stretchers, or frames. Matte cannot exceed 3".
Registration: Teachers must register each piece of artwork that will be submitted to the show by TBA. Links are below.
Labels for Artwork: The official YAM label is required on each piece of artwork. Artwork without the official label will not be displayed. Please attach the student portion of the label (printed on white paper) to front lower right corner of each mat and the other label securely attached to the back. Don’t cover the artwork with the label.
Teacher Artwork Drop Off: TBA Statehouse (one may have to park on the street or in a nearby garage during drop off). The Statehouse parking lot opens at 1:30PM. Parking is located in the North lot off Ohio Street.
Tear Down: TBA
See links below for online registration, art work label, letter to parents, principal letter, and the YAM certificate.

YAM 2018 Online Registration for Statehouse Exhibition

YAM 2018 Art Work Label