YOUTH ART MONTH 2015
EXHIBITION DATES: MARCH 20 - APRIL 11
Opening Reception, Friday March 20, 5:30 - 7PM
Free Admission
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Youth Art Month is a nationally celebrated event. Festivities take place traditionally each March, to celebrate visual arts for grades K – 12. The Youth Art Month Program emphasizes the value of art education for all children, encourages support for quality school art programs, and promotes art material safety.
Youth Art Month also provides a forum for recognizing skills developed through visual arts experiences that are not possible in other curriculum subjects.
Over the last eleven years, Youth Art Month in Gainesville has been particularly important because of the legacy of Charles J. Thurmond and the Kiwanis Club of Gainesville.
Thurmond was a member of the Georgia Legislature, the Gainesville City Council and served in many other capacities including as a Trustee of and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Brenau University – the Thurmond-McRae Lecture Hall is named in his honor. He served as a Kiwanian for over 60 years. During that time he served as President, Lieutenant Governor and Governor of the Georgia District.
A great Kiwanian and Gainesvillian, Charles J. Thurmond… created a way to “improve the world one child at a time, one community at a time….”
The Kiwanis club of Gainesville through the Charles J. Thurmond Youth Art Scholarship Awards has provided college scholarships totaling $165,000 to 76 students. Awards were made recognizing excellence in the following categories:
• Visual arts
• Performing arts
• Writing
The Best in show prize in each category is $2500 each year. First place winners from each grade also have the opportunity to compete at the State Youth Art Month competition where more cash awards are possible.
Kiwanis partners with the Quinlan Visual Arts Center each year in order to showcase the visual arts component of the competition in a professional gallery setting. The Quinlan donates the gallery space each spring exclusively for the display of youth art entries from grades K-12. Exhibition Dates: March 20 – April 11th. Opening reception and awards ceremony will be held at the Quinlan Friday, March 20th, 5:30 – 7:00 P.M.
Eligibility- Entries each year are accepted through the art department of local schools. All local Gainesville and Hall County elementary, middle and high schools will be invited to submit their best artwork. Ribbons are awarded, cash awards from the scholarship competition for grades 10-12.
Also, the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) will be selecting artwork at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center's 2015 Youth Art Month. These Young Marine Artist Search (YMAS) awards will be given to the students in the 11th and 12th grades whose work is marine themed. Please see the web site www.americansocietyofmarineartists.com for examples of marine art.
Any student whose work receives YMAS awards during this Quinlan Youth Art Month will be entered in the 2015 ASMA National YMAS Competition.
Please email Anne Brodie Hill for more information [email protected]. Scroll down below to access the submission guidelines.
Thank you to Tommy and Chantal Bagwell for their sponsorship. Thank you to Pen Dragon Fine Art Supplies for their support and The Colored Egg for their delicious cookies!
Youth Art Month also provides a forum for recognizing skills developed through visual arts experiences that are not possible in other curriculum subjects.
Over the last eleven years, Youth Art Month in Gainesville has been particularly important because of the legacy of Charles J. Thurmond and the Kiwanis Club of Gainesville.
Thurmond was a member of the Georgia Legislature, the Gainesville City Council and served in many other capacities including as a Trustee of and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Brenau University – the Thurmond-McRae Lecture Hall is named in his honor. He served as a Kiwanian for over 60 years. During that time he served as President, Lieutenant Governor and Governor of the Georgia District.
A great Kiwanian and Gainesvillian, Charles J. Thurmond… created a way to “improve the world one child at a time, one community at a time….”
The Kiwanis club of Gainesville through the Charles J. Thurmond Youth Art Scholarship Awards has provided college scholarships totaling $165,000 to 76 students. Awards were made recognizing excellence in the following categories:
• Visual arts
• Performing arts
• Writing
The Best in show prize in each category is $2500 each year. First place winners from each grade also have the opportunity to compete at the State Youth Art Month competition where more cash awards are possible.
Kiwanis partners with the Quinlan Visual Arts Center each year in order to showcase the visual arts component of the competition in a professional gallery setting. The Quinlan donates the gallery space each spring exclusively for the display of youth art entries from grades K-12. Exhibition Dates: March 20 – April 11th. Opening reception and awards ceremony will be held at the Quinlan Friday, March 20th, 5:30 – 7:00 P.M.
Eligibility- Entries each year are accepted through the art department of local schools. All local Gainesville and Hall County elementary, middle and high schools will be invited to submit their best artwork. Ribbons are awarded, cash awards from the scholarship competition for grades 10-12.
Also, the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) will be selecting artwork at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center's 2015 Youth Art Month. These Young Marine Artist Search (YMAS) awards will be given to the students in the 11th and 12th grades whose work is marine themed. Please see the web site www.americansocietyofmarineartists.com for examples of marine art.
Any student whose work receives YMAS awards during this Quinlan Youth Art Month will be entered in the 2015 ASMA National YMAS Competition.
Please email Anne Brodie Hill for more information [email protected]. Scroll down below to access the submission guidelines.
Thank you to Tommy and Chantal Bagwell for their sponsorship. Thank you to Pen Dragon Fine Art Supplies for their support and The Colored Egg for their delicious cookies!
Art Entry Forms for High & Middle School Students
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Download ASMA YMAS Submission Guideline below
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2015 Youth Art Month Judges
2015 Youth Art Month judges | |
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