• Arts education fosters brain development, especially of the creative and intuitive right brain functions.
• Skills developed through art lead to better learning in other areas.
• Students in quality art programs benefit from a wide range of positive effects including development of creativity and thinking skills, better self-expression, appreciation of art and music, learning about other cultures, and enriched personal satisfaction with their achievements. (Harland, Critical Links).
• The arts provide experiences that cannot be duplicated by other means.
Art gives pleasure and meaning to our daily experience.
• Through art, students develop cultural awareness and appreciation of other viewpoints. (Welch)
Art develops social skills and teamwork. In art class, students are encouraged to share ideas and help each other.
• Creating art helps children discover the unexpected possibilities of their creativity.
• Art teaches critical thinking rather than getting the right answer.
• Through art children learn that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
• Art teaches students about subtleties.
• Art teaches children to evaluate and make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
• Art reminds us that the limits of our language do not define the limits of our thinking.
• Art celebrates multiple perspectives and different ways to see and interpret the world.
• Art teaches students to explore through and within possible responses.
• Art empowers children to say what cannot be said.
• Art enables us to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of doing.
Including art in the school curriculum shows students what adults know is important.
SAT scores for students who studied the arts for 4 years were 103 points higher than students with no coursework or experience in the arts. (Arts Education Partnership, 1995).
“The schools that produced the highest academic achievement in the United States today are spending 20% to 30% of the day on the arts.” (IAEEA test 1988)
• Elementary school students in Ohio who had a comprehensive art program showed significant gains on creativity measures, academic achievement, and appreciation of the arts. (Welch)
• 920 elementary school students in 52 classrooms in Boston, Cambridge and Los Angeles who were given visual and performing arts lessons for three years outscored non-program students, earning significantly higher report card grades in the core subject areas of language arts, math, reading and social studies. (“Different Ways of Knowing” Welch)
• 96 children aged 5-7 years who had supplementary art and music classes achieved higher standardized mathematics scores than children who received the school’s typical music and art training. (Rauscher)
“The world’s top academic countries place a high value on art and music education." (IAEEA)
A review of 57 research studies found that self-concept is positively enhanced through the arts.
Most of all.... art is fun !!!
• Skills developed through art lead to better learning in other areas.
• Students in quality art programs benefit from a wide range of positive effects including development of creativity and thinking skills, better self-expression, appreciation of art and music, learning about other cultures, and enriched personal satisfaction with their achievements. (Harland, Critical Links).
• The arts provide experiences that cannot be duplicated by other means.
Art gives pleasure and meaning to our daily experience.
• Through art, students develop cultural awareness and appreciation of other viewpoints. (Welch)
Art develops social skills and teamwork. In art class, students are encouraged to share ideas and help each other.
• Creating art helps children discover the unexpected possibilities of their creativity.
• Art teaches critical thinking rather than getting the right answer.
• Through art children learn that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
• Art teaches students about subtleties.
• Art teaches children to evaluate and make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
• Art reminds us that the limits of our language do not define the limits of our thinking.
• Art celebrates multiple perspectives and different ways to see and interpret the world.
• Art teaches students to explore through and within possible responses.
• Art empowers children to say what cannot be said.
• Art enables us to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of doing.
Including art in the school curriculum shows students what adults know is important.
SAT scores for students who studied the arts for 4 years were 103 points higher than students with no coursework or experience in the arts. (Arts Education Partnership, 1995).
“The schools that produced the highest academic achievement in the United States today are spending 20% to 30% of the day on the arts.” (IAEEA test 1988)
• Elementary school students in Ohio who had a comprehensive art program showed significant gains on creativity measures, academic achievement, and appreciation of the arts. (Welch)
• 920 elementary school students in 52 classrooms in Boston, Cambridge and Los Angeles who were given visual and performing arts lessons for three years outscored non-program students, earning significantly higher report card grades in the core subject areas of language arts, math, reading and social studies. (“Different Ways of Knowing” Welch)
• 96 children aged 5-7 years who had supplementary art and music classes achieved higher standardized mathematics scores than children who received the school’s typical music and art training. (Rauscher)
“The world’s top academic countries place a high value on art and music education." (IAEEA)
A review of 57 research studies found that self-concept is positively enhanced through the arts.
Most of all.... art is fun !!!