Youth Art Month 2019 State Flag Competition Winner

Youth Art Month: State Flag Competition Winners!

The Youth Art Month Co-Chairpersons Julia Lang-Shapiro, Heather McCutcheon and Donnalyn Shuster are happy to announce our 2019 State Flag Competition Winners! This event is an important part of our award-winning Youth Art Month Program as an endorsed initiative of the New York State Art Teacher’s Association.

Overall Flag Design Winner

Julia Manolios

Grade 8

Long Island School for the Gifted

Art Teacher: Robin O’Leary

The overall winner will have their work created into the flag that will hang at the NAEA Conference in Boston in March. The overall winner will receive a smaller version of the flag to keep and display.

In addition, all the winning designs will represent New York State on our panel in the YAM Museum at the 2019 National Art Education Association Conference this March in Boston.

Congratulations to all winning students and their teachers! Thanks to all who submitted entries this year and to Sargent Art for their continued support of our Flag Design Program here in New York State.

Nationally, Youth Art Month is supported by the Council for Art Education, Inc. and has served since 1961 as a program designed to promote the value of strong visual arts education programs in our public and private schools during the month of March.