YAM 2008: Exhibition for Youth Art Month
March 9-April 27

This year marks the 21st annual Youth Art Month (YAM) exhibition of student artwork. This exhibition will showcase more than 200 works of art by kindergarten through grade 12 students from Huntsville City, Madison City, Madison County, Athens City, Limestone County, Decatur City and Scottsboro City schools.

On display in the Beck Meeting Room from March 9-16 will be the Visual Arts Achievement Program (VAA), a display of 17 Blue Ribbon Finalists of middle and high school students in Alabama’s District 5. The award-winning works will subsequently travel to Montgomery to be displayed with other regional winners in the Artist’s Gallery of the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Also on view in the Haws Gallery is one work by a high school student representing Alabama’s 5th Congressional District that has been selected as the winner of the Congressional Art Competition. The work will travel to Washington D.C. and be displayed for a year in the Cannon Tunnel at the U.S. Capitol.

YAM 2008
Opening Day Reception
Sunday, March 9
1:30-4:30 pm

Join us for a reception hosted by the Huntsville Museum of Art Board of Directors honoring the students and teachers whose works are on display. As part of the Museum’s Community Free Day program, admission fees will be waived to all visitors that day.

Major support for YAM 2008 programs is generously provided by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama Inc. Additional support is provided by The Women’s Guild of the Huntsville Museum of Art, The Huntsville Times and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.