Why making art is good for you...
Art creates leaders. Art creates a willingness to explore, it teaches appropriate risk taking, learning from mistakes, and that it is safe to being open to other possibilities than those someone is already used to . Art and creative education increases the quality of all communities. Art teaches problem solving: it challenges stereotypes and encourages open-ended thinking that creates an environment of safe question vs. rote answers. It encourages solution based thinking.
Art improves the brain at any age. Art strengthens focus and increases attention, it develops hand-eye coordination, and strategic thinking, it involves interacting with the material world through unexpected tools and mediums.
Neurological studies of those making art, as opposed to those just looking at art, find that those actively engaged in creating what they envision have increased brain function over those who merely analyze someone else's completed projects.
Art increases self-esteem and feelings of over all well being. Art can be a cathartic release of complex emotion, promoting "ah-Ha's" of self realization. People who have a difficult time talking about their feelings can often find relief in some form of art.
Art is the most personal way of self-expression we have. It supports one's personal meaning of life, discovering one’s internal joy and finding echoes of that joy in others. Art opens the heart and mind to possibilities, it feeds the imagination. Art is a process for learning to create an intentional life and further experiencing the world in new ways. Art supports the bigger picture view of life: beauty, symbols, spirituality, storytelling. Participating actively in the arts help us step out of time, allowing us to be present in the moment. Art keeps the everyday magic of life alive for the practitioner.
Art makes us Human: Some of human's earliest creative expressions were recorded in petroglyphs, cave paintings, and ancient sculptures. Our first intensional marks meant as communication were image based.The dawn of 'art' gets pushed further back in time by scientists everyday. One of the first things kids do is draw, paint, and use their imaginations to play.
Art does not know stereotypes, religious barriers, and socio-economical levels, bias or prejudices. Art creates a sense of belonging. Humans are all saying the same things no matter what time in history they lived or culture they belong to. It all comes down to the conclusion that we are all thinking alike but the details of the individual's situation create a world full of unique visual and tactile language we can all understand.
...and most important of all: ART is FUN!
Art improves the brain at any age. Art strengthens focus and increases attention, it develops hand-eye coordination, and strategic thinking, it involves interacting with the material world through unexpected tools and mediums.
Neurological studies of those making art, as opposed to those just looking at art, find that those actively engaged in creating what they envision have increased brain function over those who merely analyze someone else's completed projects.
Art increases self-esteem and feelings of over all well being. Art can be a cathartic release of complex emotion, promoting "ah-Ha's" of self realization. People who have a difficult time talking about their feelings can often find relief in some form of art.
Art is the most personal way of self-expression we have. It supports one's personal meaning of life, discovering one’s internal joy and finding echoes of that joy in others. Art opens the heart and mind to possibilities, it feeds the imagination. Art is a process for learning to create an intentional life and further experiencing the world in new ways. Art supports the bigger picture view of life: beauty, symbols, spirituality, storytelling. Participating actively in the arts help us step out of time, allowing us to be present in the moment. Art keeps the everyday magic of life alive for the practitioner.
Art makes us Human: Some of human's earliest creative expressions were recorded in petroglyphs, cave paintings, and ancient sculptures. Our first intensional marks meant as communication were image based.The dawn of 'art' gets pushed further back in time by scientists everyday. One of the first things kids do is draw, paint, and use their imaginations to play.
Art does not know stereotypes, religious barriers, and socio-economical levels, bias or prejudices. Art creates a sense of belonging. Humans are all saying the same things no matter what time in history they lived or culture they belong to. It all comes down to the conclusion that we are all thinking alike but the details of the individual's situation create a world full of unique visual and tactile language we can all understand.
...and most important of all: ART is FUN!
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My classes are on hold right now. My classes are devided into 2 basic age groups: Youth: ages 8-11) and teens-adults (ages 12 and up) They are all geared for beginners as well as those with intermediate experience for the age group in the indicated art medium.
I tailor flexible workshops to fit interests, experience levels, events, the number of hours or days needed. |
Once we are all clear to resume gatherings my list of classes available will be:
Acrylics: Beginning to Beyond Workshop- Teens-Adults
Acrylics: Introduction Workshop- Children 8-13 Acrylics: Youth 8-11 Acrylics: Teens: 12 - 15 Acrylics: Adults 16 + Drawing: Youth 8-11 Drawing: Teens: 12 - 15 Drawing : Adults 16 + Oils: Youth 10-14 Oils: Adults 15 + Mixed Media: Introduction Workshop - 10 and up Mixed Media: Youth 8-11 Mixed Media: Teens - 12-15 Mixed Media: Adults 16 + Watercolors: Youth 8-11 Watercolors; Teens: 12 - 15 Watercolors; Adults 16 + |
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