![]() March is Youth Art Month Lynnae Burns WestCental-VP YES! It is Youth Art Month time! I know that many of you have been busy preparing your student art for our annual Youth Art Month Exhibits. Our middle school art teachers just completed hanging our citywide annual art exhibit in celebration of YAM at our public library. Our elementary art staff will soon be joining us and displaying art in both our north and south branch public libraries of La Crosse. During these shows, our district invites each of our school board members to come view the exhibits and select one piece of art to hang in our school district boardroom. Late in spring, students and their families are invited to a fine arts recognition ceremony to meet the board members that chose their work. These artworks get framed and are displayed for the school district board and attendees to see until the following Youth Art Month shows. This event has been a wonderful way to showcase and celebrate our youth artists in our school community. Let us embrace our regional and state level Youth Art Month Exhibits. I have been enjoying seeing and hearing from the regional VP’s on their regional exhibits. This has been an amazing opportunity to oversee over 30 of our region’s teacher YAM submissions. Our regional show is being installed at the Heider Center for the Arts in West Salem, and will be on display starting February 2nd. Our exhibit will end with a closing reception for the artists and their families on February 19th from 6-7:30pm. Shortly after that, this show will be packaged up and be ready for transit to the State Capital Exhibit on February 21st. This year’s change to our Youth Art Month submission allowed all WAEA members to submit up to five student works (two more than last year) with three of those five going on to the State Capital YAM Show. We anticipate that the State Capital Rotunda will be overflowing with the magnificent artworks from the art studio classroom from all over the state. It is my hope that each of you is taking the time to celebrate your students’ artistic accomplishments with them and their families. YES! I can’t wait to see our art fill the Capital.
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