Art helps us learn and develop.
Making art teaches us problem-solving, communication, observation, reflection, calculated risk-taking, global and cultural awareness, collaboration, dedication, perseverance, focus, patience—the list goes on and on.
The act of creating expands, cultivates, and deepens our imagination.
The act of putting ideas into visual elements helps form and develop those ideas—it is also a uniquely effective means of conveying those ideas.
Art helps us become more child-like.
Art connects us to our inner child, causing us to see things in a new way. It removes the routine, common-place view of everyday life, causing us to live in a mental state of wonder again. This child-like state of mind allows us to see the light in darkness.
Art connects us to others.
It has the ability to make our own experiences, shared experiences. The practice of capturing our own feelings and ideas from life’s experiences, and sharing those with others, creates an opportunity for empathy. Art generates community. It reaches across barriers of time, culture, language, geography, and situation. “If we take the time to seriously contemplate the art of other cultures, we see that we are one human-kind, and that our similarities far outweigh our social, religious, and political differences.” -Turner Carroll
Art helps us understand life.
The act of contemplating who you are and your experience of life around you, and then striving to express that in visual terms, expands your mind. Art helps us form and cultivate thoughts. Through art we can find meaning, understanding, and empathy with others. Art develops genius.
Art connects us to the divine.
The Principles of Design are eternal laws of beauty. “The physical world is patterned after the spiritual realm and the beauties of the earth are embedded with the truths of heaven. […] the principles of truth, beauty, and virtue are all manifestations of the divine.” -Nikki Covington
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