Art everywhere
In celebration of National Youth Art Month (YAM) there are three art exhibits that opened this past weekend…
Portland Museum of Art
Molly Mains, Art Teacher of the Year
The annual exhibit sponsored by the Maine Art Education Association held at the Portland Museum of Art, (PMA) with over 100 works of art by Maine students in grades K-12 are on display. The opening was on Saturday, March 5th, and will remain in place until April 3rd.
Molly Mains, Art Teacher of the Year, 2011 was honored and spoke about her passion for art and her love of art education. Lauren Lessing, Mirken Curator of Education, Colby College, Art Advocate of the Year, 2011 was also honored.
Students and parents at the awards assembly at PMA
Special thanks to Tori Tyler-Maylar, Manon Lewis for their dedication year after year in setting YAM art month and doing so much work behind the scenes. Stacy Rodenberger and the PMA for hosting this venue and all the other MAEA art teachers that pitched in and of course, the student’s art and creativity.
You can read more in the Village Soup, Capital Weekly, Feb. 28th edition by clicking here. You can also read more at the Portland Museum site by clicking here.
Maine Education Association
Proud students with their certificates MEA building
Kudos to Kay Allison and staff officials at Maine Education Association. They hosted the annual art exhibit with the opening on Sunday afternoon at their offices, 53 Community Drive, Augusta. The artwork will remain for a year.
Student’s artworks were specially framed from Michael’s Arts & Crafts, Augusta, Maine. Kay has been instrumental in making this annual event possible.
Bangor Mall Art in the Heart and University of Maine Museum of Art annual art exhibit at the Bangor Mall is on display March 7 – 19th. Fifty five teachers exhibiting about 650 pieces of student artwork, K-12. WOW, what an exhibit!
Visitors to the art exhibit Bangor Mall
Thank you to Skowhegan Middle School art teacher Frank Chin for contributing information and photographs and to Mount Desert Island High School art teacher for contributing photographs to this blog post.
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