Youth Art Month is celebrated during the month of March to emphasize the value of art education for all children and to encourage support for quality school art programs.
The Zionsville art teachers have been busy displaying student work throughout the Library-art is up, down, and all around! Take a peek at the display cases at the Fifth Street entrance and stroll around upstairs in the fiction and non-fiction sections-you will find some wonderful works of art.
If your 1st through 5th grader is particularly excited about YAM (Youth Art Month) he/she can even participate in a project the teachers left for the Youth Services Department.
Perhaps you have heard of Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh? Well, we have the Starry Night image and are going to create our own Community Masterpiece. Starry Night has been sectioned off into 24 equal pieces and the color has been removed. We need 24 children to color one section of the painting and we will then assemble the pieces on the bulletin board by the Exploration Station. When all of the pieces are complete, we will have our own version of Starry Night. What a fun way to celebrate art!
We want to thank the Zionsville Art teachers for their hard work in this great community project.
“Art Education develops self-esteem, appreciation of the work of others, self expression, cooperation with others, and critical thinking skills. All of these skills are vital to the success of our future leaders—our children.” -Council for Art Education
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