Think how dull life would be without art or music. Granted, math and science are important but the other part of the brain needs stimulation. Art and music teach children “freedom of expression.” It spurs their curiosity and potentially can help them discover other creative forms. See what else Paul Rance has to say regarding [...]
The Neighborhood Big Draw takes place Saturday October 9th. This fun event is a wonderful activity to get neighbors together-drawing (also a great way to get children interested in art), promote community and learn more about where you live. There will be a large one in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood, in Roswell, New Mexico, city-wide in Nashville, in [...]
As mentioned in a prior post, this week is Arts in Education Week. At the Art and Culture Center in Hollywood Arts in Education is celebrated everyday. Through a variety of programs the Center reaches many children who otherwise might not have the opportunity to participate in visual and performing arts. The Center runs programs [...]
For years the Torrance Creativity tasks have been used as the standard for creativity assessment. In May Kyung Hee Kim, from William & Mary, found that creativity scores continually rose as did IQ scores until 1990. In the following years there has been a continuous decline in creativity scores. What is disturbing is the decrease is significant in the younger [...]
DoSomething.org knows you care about arts education and wants you to participate in their new initiative Make Art Save Art. The program wants to use artists and students to spread the message that arts are important to American schools. Read more on the contest that corporate sponsors HP and AMD are participating in. Make Art Save Art [...]
The largest Arts program in the southeast, Young Audiences, Woodruff Art Center (YAWAC) is part of a national 31 – chapter Young Artists program in Atlanta. Started in 1983 with nine artists it now has grown to 64 artists. YAWAC is involved in the lives and learning of children and teens in multiple ways. The [...]
The Central Wisconsin Children’s Museum believes art plays an important part in a child’s develpment. In a June 2005 Harris Poll, “93 percent of Americans think that the arts are vital to providing a well-rounded education.” Additional research supports that getting an early start in the arts can make a real difference in the lives of children. Art [...]
What are you doing this summer? In Anne Arundel County, Maryland teachers will be learning art, songwriting, mime and dance in efforts to better teach students in math, science and other subjects in the fall. These teachers will be attending a summer development program that allows county elementary and middle school teachers to take art lessons and [...]
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 [...]
