EXHIBIT: ANNUAL NC GENERAL ASSEMBLY K-12 YOUTH ART EXHIBIT
The North Carolina General Assembly Youth Art Exhibit is cosponsored by the North Carolina Art Education Association and North Carolina General Assembly. The purpose of the exhibit is to share with our legislators and the public the exceptional creative ability of North Carolina’s students.
Selected artworks will be displayed in the north lobby of the Legislative Building for a year-long exhibit! Students, parents, teachers, and principals will be invited to attend an opening reception with members of the General Assembly at the Legislative Building!
Art Contest: Youth Art Month Flag Design
exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards:
During Dec and Jan each year 7-12 grade art teachers may submit their students’ work for submission to Scholastic.
State Gold Key winners can compete nationally for scholarships. We are fortunate to have three regions in North Carolina. Here are your contact for each region:
Western Region: Erin Shope, Asheville Art Museum- eshope@ashevilleart.org
Mid Carolina Region: Cheryl Maney, Charlotte- Mecklenburg Schools – Cheryl.maney@cms.k12.nc.us
Eastern-Central Region: East Carolina University
ONLINE EXHIBIT: ARTSONIA
Join the world's largest kids' art museum and showcase your students' work online. Artsonia provides free gallery services and give your students' family and friends a way to see their art. And as a bonus, they offer an online Gift Shop that enables family and friends to purchase everything from mugs to t-shirts printed with student artwork.
Artsonia can also be used as a school fundraiser. If you are a US school you currently can earn 20% of the order revenue from parents. For example, if a parent orders $100 in merchandise with their child's artwork on it, you get $20 for your arts program.
Throughout the year, teachers can request a payout of their funds in the form of a check, Artsonia Gift Certificate or Dick Blick Art Materials Gift Certificate. Fundraising requests can be completed through a teacher's secured login section. Learn more.
ONLINE exhibit: Other online gallery resources
For a variety of online gallery opportunities check out The Incredible Art Department website for a great list of student exhibition links.
event: The empty Bowls Project
Empty Bowls is an international project to fight hunger, personalized by artists and art organizations on a community level.
The promotion and growth of the project is managed by The Imagine/RENDER Group, a 501(c)3 organization. However, each community’s events are self developed and independent. “Empty Bowls” now supports food related charities around the world and has raised millions of dollars to aid in the fight against hunger.
“Empty Bowls” allows participating artists and groups to create and donate bowls, then serve a simple meal. Guests choose a bowl to use that day and to keep as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. In exchange for the meal, and the bowl, guests contribute a suggested minimum donation. One hundred percent of each meal's proceeds are devoted to local hunger-fighting organizations, such as food banks or soup kitchens, or to national or international charitable groups.
EVENT: pinwheels for peace
http://www.pinwheelsforpeace.com/pinwheelsforpeace/home.html
Imagine… millions of pinwheels spinning in the wind – pinwheels in the United States, Great Britain, South America, Australia, the Middle East, Canada, Africa, Europe and Asia; pinwheels all over the world! – big pinwheels, small pinwheels; pinwheels of all shapes and sizes – colorful pinwheels, decorated with drawings, paintings, collages, photographs– pinwheels with words of peace and harmony written on them – fields of pinwheels, pinwheels along roadsides, in schoolyards, in parks, pinwheels EVERYWHERE!
This is the Pinwheels for Peace project!
Please join us every year on International Day of Peace, September 21st, as we create a visual public statement about peace!