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Through quality art programs, children have many opportunities to ...
Research strongly suggests that now more than ever children need creative development and creative activities in the schools. (You can read Newsweek's The Creativity Crisis here.) The article states, "The necessity of human ingenuity is undisputed. A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the No. 1 “leadership competency” of the future. Yet it’s not just about sustaining our nation’s economic growth. All around us are matters of national and international importance that are crying out for creative solutions, from saving the Gulf of Mexico to bringing peace to Afghanistan to delivering health care. Such solutions emerge from a healthy marketplace of ideas, sustained by a populace constantly contributing original ideas and receptive to the ideas of others."
Through quality art programs, children have many opportunities to ...
- See the world through multiple points of view
- Problem solve
- Work collaboratively
- Experiment with multiple solutions to a problem
- Practice self expression
- Learn to offer and accept feedback on works in progress
- To appreciate the work of other people.
- Build vocabulary to construct a visual language that helps them to "read" their increasingly visual environment.
Research strongly suggests that now more than ever children need creative development and creative activities in the schools. (You can read Newsweek's The Creativity Crisis here.) The article states, "The necessity of human ingenuity is undisputed. A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the No. 1 “leadership competency” of the future. Yet it’s not just about sustaining our nation’s economic growth. All around us are matters of national and international importance that are crying out for creative solutions, from saving the Gulf of Mexico to bringing peace to Afghanistan to delivering health care. Such solutions emerge from a healthy marketplace of ideas, sustained by a populace constantly contributing original ideas and receptive to the ideas of others."