Sizer School student Jaiden Killion of Templeton chosen for MAEA Youth Art Month exhibition
Staff report
FITCHBURG Six Sizer School students, including a Templeton resident, were recently chosen to be featured in the Massachusetts Art Education Association’s (MAEA) annual Youth Art Month exhibition.
Youth Art Month (YAM) is celebrated nationally every March to highlight the importance of visual art education “in the total education curriculum that develops citizens of a global society,” according to their website. Annually, MAEA sponsors a statewide pre-K-12 YAM exhibit of student artworks submitted by art educators in public, private and independent schools from across the state. The exhibition features outstanding artwork created by students from throughout Massachusetts.
Artist reception 5:30-7 p.m. tonight on Zoom; free tickets at www.artscapecod.org
Barbara Clark Sincere, and unfiltered, right from the source,” says Benton Jones, CCMOA director of Art
There’s an inspiring new exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Art – one that celebrates the talent and variety of Cape Cod’s young artists.
Artworks created by 50 students in more than a dozen Cape schools and art education programs are now displayed at the Dennis museum in “Through Young Eyes,” until April 18.
The exhibition, in its 18th year, is sponsored annually by the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Cape Cod and Islands Art Educators Association (CCIAEA). The association is made up of current and retired art educators on Cape Cod, and was founded at the museum in 2003 by Linda McNeil Kemp, formerly the education director at the museum and the founder of many arts initiatives for young people locally.
WEYMOUTH Drawing inspiration from this past year and her own life experiences, Weymouth children s book author and illustrator Amanda Davis hopes that people look at her cover art on the front page of The Patriot Ledger and feel hopeful.
Davis said that the little girl looking out the window in her drawing, made through the iPad app, Procreate, is representative of all the time people have spent at home this year and not being able to venture outside much because of the coronavirus pandemic. She also wanted to depict a feeling of hope and peace.
The word PEACE is etched into the foggy window in her drawing and is a hopeful nod to the future and what people can look forward to a message Davis said is needed.