A small study revealed art therapy reduces anxiety in kids who suffer from asthma. Anya Beebe, an art therapist at National Jewish Health in Denver, led a study of 22 children between the ages of 7 and 14 with persistent asthma. Beebe and colleagues assigned one group of children to undergo art therapy along with [...]
At Byng Arts, classes go on long after the last school bell rings. The school within a school, Byng Arts boasts an enrollment of 450 students out of a Lord Byng student body of 1,300. Most of the students apply for a spot in middle school and audition for acceptance into the visual art, band, [...]
For the projects made in the art therapy class at St. Joseph’s School for the Blind, there is more to the artwork than meets the eye. In honor of National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, adult students from the New Jersey Foundation for the Blind visited Concordia Learning Center at St. Joseph’s to host art [...]
When Washington, D.C.-based artist Kevin Reese moved to Wausau, Wis. last fall, he wasted no time launching his $30,000 project “Mobilizing the Community.” Reese visited various Wausau schools and had the students create miniature mobiles. He took photos of them all, studied them and then recreated the students’ ideas into 12 large mobiles. The mobiles [...]
Amoako Buachie used to create fights with his mother in the morning. Now he creates art instead. This June, the 18 year-old autistic artist will have one of his works of art displayed in the world-famous Metropolitan Museum of Art. Buachie’s painting is one of 75 pieces from New York’s K-12 public school students that [...]
Teaching kids the tools of the trade doesn’t always mean picking up a paintbrush or pencil, according to one artist. Michele Beschen, host of the PBS show “Be Organic,” believes students can use ordinary household items to create beautiful works of art. She put her theory to test recently at Terrace Elementary School in Ankeny, [...]
Boston University student Natalie Turturro wants kids to know that “school opens doors,” and her method at getting out the message involves using her own education to do it. For her thesis project, Turturro created an installation art exhibition at the non-profit Ellis Memorial Children’s Center, a settlement house in the South End of Boston [...]
When Brandeis University’s artist-in-residence Michael Dowling built it, people came. His installation “Source/ReSource” featuring a recurring stream of water being pumped into a large triangular pool outside the university’s Rose Art Museum was unveiled this May. “I wanted to animate the space in front of the Rose and lead people to one of the sources [...]
The New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts is made up of local businesses that are committed to supporting the arts and striving to increase arts support within the business community. The non-profit organization believes a flourishing arts community improves the region’s quality of life and is good for businesses. Howard Altschiller of the Seacoast [...]
