Youth Art Month

Youth Art Month is an annual observance each March to emphasize the value of art education for all children and to encourage support for quality school art programs. In this presentation for Youth Art Month four Bloomington High School North art students talk about how art has affected them and the value of Art Education in our schools.

Youth Art Month provides a forum for acknowledging skills that are fostered through experience in the visual arts that are not possible in other subjects offered in the curriculum.

In 1961, The Crayon, Water Color & Craft Institute, forerunner of ACMI, a non-profit association of art and craft materials manufacturers, created Childrens Art Month. Created in cooperation with NAEA, a professional society of art educators, the purpose of Childrens Art Month was to "emphasize the value of participating in art for all children." In 1969, the observance was expanded to include secondary school students and has been celebrated nationwide since that time as "Youth Art Month."

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