YAM 2020: Exhibition for Youth Art Month

Adtran, Jurenko, Thurber, and Women’s Guild Galleries
March 15 – April 26, 2020

Youth Art Month is observed nationally each March to emphasize the value of art education for children and to encourage public support for quality school art programs. It is hosted each year in Huntsville by The Huntsville Museum of Art’s Museum Academy. Youth Art Month also provides a forum for recognizing skills developed through visual arts experiences that are not possible in other curriculum subjects. Youth Art Month is endorsed by The National Art Education Association, Alabama Art Education Association, Alabama State Department of Education, Alabama Alliance for Arts Education and locally the Huntsville-Madison County Art Education Association.

This year marks the 33rd annual Youth Art Month (YAM) exhibition of student artwork on view at the Huntsville Museum of Art in the major galleries of the Museum. This exhibition showcases nearly 200 exuberant works of art by youth in kindergarten through grade 12 from Huntsville City, Madison City, Madison County, Athens City, Limestone County, Decatur City, and Scottsboro City schools.

The Congressional Art Competition and VAA: Visual Arts Achievement Program District V Blue Ribbon Finalists exhibitions complement the student artwork. The VAA District V award-winning works will then subsequently travel to Montgomery to be displayed at the Alabama State Council on the Arts, along with other regional winners from across the state. The artwork by the winner of the Congressional Art Competition, selected from students in the 5th Congressional District, will later travel to Washington D.C. for a yearlong display at the U.S. Capitol.

We celebrate the talents of North Alabama’s young artists at the Huntsville Museum of Art with an opening reception on Sunday, March 15, 2020. The reception is sponsored by the Huntsville Museum of Art Board of Directors and as part of the Museum’s Community Free Day program, admission fees will be waived to all visitors that day. At this opening reception there are award presentations for VAA Blue Ribbon Finalists and the Congressional Art Competition in the Great Hall. We also hold Artists’ Demonstrations to expose visitors to a variety of different art techniques as artists work in their selected mediums in the galleries.

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Awards Ceremony and Opening Reception

The opening event scheduled for Sunday, March 15 has been canceled. 

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Major support for YAM 2020 programs generously provided by:

 

LEAD SPONSOR:
Joyce Griffin

 

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