Youth Art Month Kansas - 2024

 Did you know that March is set aside nationally to celebrate Youth Art?  Thanks to this, our library in Shawnee County Kansas annually hosts a visual art exhibit that showcases student art representing Art teachers from across the state of Kansas.  

Every Art teacher in Kansas can submit one student's art work to represent them.  As soon as I saw the announcement for Youth Art Month (YAM) this year I knew instantly who I wanted to represent me and the Digital Photography program at Topeka High - Adam Krohe.

Adam is one of my Photo 3's, but with as many photography classes he has had, he and I joke that he is more like Photo 5.  I have had Adam constantly as a student and just overall presence since the first semester of his Sophomore year, and now he is graduating this year.  During that time I have gotten the joy to watch Adam not only come into his own as a photographer, but as a young man, coming to terms with the photography history of his lineage and finding his own place amongst it.  

Adam has really pushed his understanding of long exposure and is always finding new ways to impress me with how he creatively finds a new way to explore it.  His latest series has his riding passenger in a car, and as the car is moving down a brightly lit area he zooms the lens, causing the distortion to feel like we are going faster that what we are. We call it Hyper-Space Photography in honor of Star Wars. 

Adam's piece Car Trip is the culmination of his recent works in this area and we both agreed it was the best piece to represent him.  Car Trip got to be a part of the Youth Art Month from February 27th - March 23rd, and represented the Digital Photography Program very well!

Here is Adam's photo Car Trip, along with photos of half of the exhibit at the library, it was truly an amazing show filled with very talented Kansas Youth Artists. 

Car Trip - Adam Krohe

Youth Art Month Hallway 1

Youth Art Month Hallway 1