2024 Texas Youth Art Month Flag Designer Announced

We are extremely proud to share that a visual arts student’s work has been chosen as the overall winner for the  2024 Texas Art Education’s Youth Art Month Flag Design to represent the State of Texas – congratulations to:

Lillian Newlin / Purple Sage Elementary
(Emily Smith, Visual Arts Faculty)

Their design will be made into a flag and displayed at the National Flag Ceremony at the National Art Education Association Conference and at the Texas Art Education Association Conference.  Miss Newlin will also be honored at the State Youth Art Month Exhibition Awards and Reception which showcases Pre-K through 12th grade works of art from across the state of Texas. Student art from around the state will be exhibited at the Bullock Texas State History Museum during the month of March, and the exhibit will be featured on their website.

The Museum is located at 1800 Congress Ave, Austin, TX, 78701. The Museum is open Tuesdays through
Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Youth Art Month exhibit and Youth Art Month flag will be on display February 26, 2024 – March 30, 2024.

A reception for the flag designer, exhibition artists and their families will be held Sunday, March 10, 2024 from 11am-12noon.

This is the first time an elementary student artist from Round Rock ISD has been chosen for this honor and this speaks to the quality of our award-winning visual arts program.  Our previous flag designer was in 2014 at Cedar Ridge High School.

For information regarding the visual arts program of Round Rock ISD, contact Tim Lowke, Director of Fine Arts – Visual Arts at tim_lowke@rooundrockisd.org or 512.464.5931