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Youth Art Month

YAM celebrates with a Flag Design Contest to represent Texas nationally. There is a YAM Exhibit for 100 artists at the State Capitol, followed by exhibit and awards reception at Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin. District and Area associations create YAM scrapbooks celebrating year-round advocacy and YAM events. This is a great way to connect art educators with tools for advocacy and communicating the importance of quality visual arts programs at the local, regional and state level.

TEAM

The purpose of TEAM is to provide a collegiate assessment for an individual elementary art student based on the standards of TEKS, Bloom's Taxonomy and the Feldman Model. Additionally, TEAM provides constructive criticism (actual feedback) for the student's literary and expressive process. Participating teachers receive the following: Certificates for all participating students, award ribbons for entries receiving a rating Good or Grow, and medals for those that rated Exemplary, a juror rating form on each entry (like VASE there are 2 glows and a grow), a commendation letter to the principal, an evaluation form to be completed by the teacher, and a list of the "Top of the Team" (top 10%) works that will possibly be on the TAEA web page.

JR VASE

Junior VASE is A TAEA visual arts event recognizing exemplary, intermediate, middle school, and junior high student artwork. Any intermediate, middle school, or junior high teacher who is a TAEA member may enter as many students as they wish but each student may only have two works entered.

VASE

The mission of the TAEA Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE) is to recognize exemplary student achievement in the Visual Arts by providing art students and programs a standard of excellence in which to achieve.

High School VASE entries number around 35,000. Students create artworks, write about their creative processes and understanding of visual art, and articulate information about their artwork during an interview with a VASE juror, who evaluates their work using a standards-based rubric.

TAEA

TAEA Mission

To promote quality visual arts education in Texas by promoting visual arts education as an integral part of the curriculum through professional development of knowledge and skills, representation of the art educators of Texas, service and leadership opportunities, and research and development of policies and decisions relative to practices and directions in visual arts education; to sustain and advance professional development; to encourage and promote the advancement of knowledge and skills.

The Texas Art Education Association believes:

The visual arts are essential at all levels of human development.
The visual arts are sensitive to learning styles and multiple intelligence: all students are capable.
The visual arts develop critical and creative thinkers.
Visual literacy and self-expression in the visual arts are vital forms of communication in our global society.
Quality visual arts education requires instruction by professional certified art educators.
Continuous professional development is necessary for quality teaching.
Active support of research and development in visual arts education is essential.
Promotion and implementation of quality visual arts education through communication with students, parents, school administrators and community leaders.

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