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Creativity, imagination lead to productive risk taking
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ART making cultivates brain connections and higher order thinking skills in students. Learning through art is more than pleasant garnish on the meal of what is mistakenly thought of as academic education, historically the three Rs. Every subject including, math, science and language can be taught not just more effectively but enjoyably through the multiple forms of visual expression. Positive emotional responses, generated by the process of making, facilitate memory and recall of not just that experience but other learning that day.
Creating something from nothing is a skill par-excellence for the contemporary world, where schooling most often requires, to a large degree, emulation. Visual arts education opens a door to creating from that pool of emulation, something new. To invent shows students a way to insights and outcomes that are not based on rightness then rejected for wrongness.
The products of personal expression students create are celebrated in art classes. Project based learning is a trend in all subject areas but has always been the province of art making. There is a strong connection between the emotional development of the learner and their experience through arts education. Challenging students to creatively explore the unknown, where mistakes are happy accidents or inspirational moments, cultivates productive risk taking.
The process of making engages and draws the mind into what is observed through research and personal experience a state called flow. Flow is the real mother of invention. It is timelessness, a shift of awareness, a moment of intense focus, to the place where great minds like Einstein and Da Vinci could touch the hand of inspiration or as we commonly call it the “aha” moment. Art requires close observation to the internal and external world and gives students a field in which to play out those observations and make personal sense of that world.
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