Capstone Project Preview – Arts Education

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As many have heard, arts education funding has been, and is continuing to be cut drastically throughout our country. As someone who grew up with the kindermusik program, playing piano and being in art classes, I am well aware of the benefits that having a well rounded education and skill set has had on my development and my education. Studies have found that since 2008, nearly 80% of funding has been cut from many school districts across the united states, and the majority of the cuts were directly to the art and music programs. The lasting effects of art education has been proven time and time again to be beneficial to human development. Researchers find that sustained learning in music and theater correlates strongly with higher achievement in both math and reading, while promoting creativity, social development, personality adjustment, and self-worth. Art leads to happier, healthier, and more educated students. Through my capstone project, I would like to get some more people on the arts education train! The media I would like to utilyze for this is the infographic and the audio remix. Those were two of the class assignments that I enjoyed creating the most, and felt I had a lot of room to continue to grow with. Because my project is about art, I hope that I can use aspects of the senses to connect the two. I would like to focus mainly on art and music classes, because those are the two most common arts classes in primary school settings, which is where I believe the need is greatest to start establishing the norm of art in school.

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