Why is Art important?
Art plays an important role in our modern lives in that it expresses individuality, creativity and feeling. It is what visually enhances our world in our lives.
Benefits of Art in Children:
- Art stimulates both sides of the brain.
- 33% of kids are visual learners.
- Studies show that kids, who learn art, read better and get better grades in science and math.
- Kids learn by using their senses.
- Kids express themselves.
- Art promotes self-esteem.
- Art encourages kids to give more attention to the physical space that surround them.
- Art develops hand and eye coordination.
- Art stimulates perception.
- Art teaches kids to think openly.
- Art teaches that there is more than one solution for a problem.
- Art teaches kids to think creatively and to solve problems.
- Kids can share and reflect on their work of art and learn something about the world they love in.
- In the process of doing art, children are exposed to different possibilities of discovery and freedom.
- At nourishes the human soul.
- Art brings the cultural resources of the community into a class.
- Art is a legacy.
- Art is valuable by itself.
