Friday, August 30, 2019

Congratulations to the 2018-19 Lynn Dodson Award of Excellence Winner, Cathy Kondreck!


It is with great pleasure that we announce that Essex County YAM Chair Cathy Kondreck has been named the recipient of the 2018-19 Lynn Dodson YAM Award of Excellence by the Executive Board of Art Educators of New Jersey! 

AENJ established the Awards program to recognize those individuals within the membership who have achieved the highest level of professionalism in the field of visual arts education and to show appreciation to those individuals and/or organizations who have contributed their services in an exemplary manner to the Art Educators of New Jersey and to the goals espoused for the profession.

The Lynn Dodson Award of Excellence was established to honor Lynn Dodson who was the first New Jersey recipient of the Youth Art Month NAEA Award of Excellence. This award recognizes a county YAM chair, co-chair or an individual AENJ member who has demonstrated an outstanding support for Youth Art Month activities.

After this past year, Cathy will be resigning as Essex County YAM Chair.  
We will miss her, but we wish her the best in all her future endeavors 💕

Thursday, August 29, 2019

New Jersey YAM Receives the Claire Flanagan Award for 2018-19!


We are excited to announce that based on our Youth Art Month digital report submission to the Council For Art Education, New Jersey has been named the recipient of the Claire Flanagan Award for the 2018/2019 school year!

State Chairs Kristy Lopez and Karen Mannino would like to sincerely thank everyone who helped make New Jersey's Youth Art Month program the best in the country! 

Looking forward to YAM 2020!

Congratulations to our 2018-2019 Linda Lora Pugliese YAM Award Winners!


It is with great pleasure that we announce Cumberland/Gloucester/Salem County YAM Chairs Patty, Aaron, and Katina have been named the recipients of the 2018-2019 Linda Lora Pugliese YAM Award by the Executive Board of Art Educators of New Jersey!

The Art Educators of New Jersey established the Awards program to recognize those individuals within the membership who have achieved the highest level of professionalism in the field of visual arts education and to show appreciation to those individuals and/or organizations who have contributed their services in an exemplary manner to the Art Educators of New Jersey and to the goals espoused for the profession.

Established to honor former President, Linda Pugliese, whose dedication to Youth Art Month was rewarded with the first National Claire Flanagan Grand Award, this award recognizes a current county YAM chair or the leadership team who has done the most to increase support for quality art programs and exhibits through the medium of Youth Art Month.

Congratulations to these outstanding chairs! Looking forward to YAM 2020

Another State YAM Throwback Thursday

Happy Throwback Thursday - We're back with more pictures! On March 8, we celebrated our most talented students at out Youth Art Month Receptions. Here are more pictures from the State YAM Reception and Exhibition. Please check the blog from time to time, as new images will be going up periodically. This will continue until all of the 300+ pictures from the event are posted. Thank you to Roger and his team from Defining Studios for making these wonderful memories possible! Email us at yam@aenj.org or check us out on Instagram @aenjyam











Thursday, August 22, 2019

State YAM Throwback

Happy Throwback Thursday - We're back with more pictures! On March 8, we celebrated our most talented students at out Youth Art Month Receptions. Here are more pictures from the State YAM Reception and Exhibition. Please check the blog from time to time, as new images will be going up periodically. This will continue until all of the 300+ pictures from the event are posted. Thank you to Roger and his team from Defining Studios for making these wonderful memories possible! Email us at yam@aenj.org or check us out on Instagram @aenjyam











Thursday, August 15, 2019

Another State YAM Throwback

Happy Throwback Thursday - We're back with more pictures! On March 8, we celebrated our most talented students at out Youth Art Month Receptions. Here are more pictures from the State YAM Reception and Exhibition. Please check the blog from time to time, as new images will be going up periodically. This will continue until all of the 300+ pictures from the event are posted. Thank you to Roger and his team from Defining Studios for making these wonderful memories possible! Email us at yam@aenj.org or check us out on Instagram @aenjyam












Saturday, August 10, 2019

Happy State YAM Saturday

We're back with more pictures! On March 8, we celebrated our most talented students at out Youth Art Month Receptions. Here are more pictures from the State YAM Reception and Exhibition. Please check the blog from time to time, as new images will be going up periodically. This will continue until all of the 300+ pictures from the event are posted. Thank you to Roger and his team from Defining Studios for making these wonderful memories possible! Email us at yam@aenj.org or check us out on Instagram @aenjyam











Thursday, August 1, 2019

Another Thursday, Another YAM Throwback!

Happy Throwback Thursday - We're back with more pictures! On March 8, we celebrated our most talented students at out Youth Art Month Receptions. Here are more pictures from the State YAM Reception and Exhibition. Please check the blog from time to time, as new images will be going up periodically. This will continue until all of the 300+ pictures from the event are posted. Thank you to Roger and his team from Defining Studios for making these wonderful memories possible! Email us at yam@aenj.org or check us out on Instagram @aenjyam