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Kelvingrove Park
Glasgow, Scotland
Kelvingrove Park
Glasgow, Scotland

WHY
ART IS
IMPORTANT
FOR
why art is
important for
children
How the Arts
Physiologically, the human brain
consists of 2 parts, the left and the
right hemisphere. The left brain is
used in logical thinking and analytical
processes. This is typically what is
trained in school work that consists of
math, reading and science. The right
brain is used in emotional perception,
intuition and creativity. It is the right
brain that is mainly used when a person
is involved in creative endeavors such
as making art. It is this part of the
brain that typical school environment
neglects to train.
It is shown that when gifted kids solve
problems in their areas of giftedness,
there is increased electrical activity
in both hemispheres. It appears that
why art is
important for
children
hemispheres of the brains must work
together. By stimulating and exercising
the right hemisphere of the brain,
the arts strengthen the connection
between the hemispheres. Kids should
be exposed to the arts as their cognitive
skills mature so that their right brain
will be as developed as the left, and
both hemispheres work in tandem,
thus achieving the full potential of the
mind.
Current research is following a number
of paths. Some scientists measure
the natural substances your body
produces when you’re listening to
music or otherwise exposed to the arts.
Others look at what happens when
What Is the
the brains must work together. Arts strengthen the
{connection between the hemispheres.
Affect Health
you are active in the creative process.
Researchers are now investigating
how the arts can help us recover from
improve well-being and enhance the
Scientists are also studying how art
therapy can help to ease pain and stress
and improve quality of life. Megan
Clinical Center, says, “When traumatic
memories are stored in the brain, they’re
not stored as words but as images. Art
therapy is uniquely suited to access
these memories.”
Once you draw or paint these images,
she explains, you can then progress to
forming words to describe them. This
externalizes the trauma—moves it out
of isolation, onto the page and into a
positive exchange with the therapist.
This process, Robb says, gives you
“an active involvement in your own
healing.”
Several small studies, some of
which were supported by NIH, have
suggested that art therapy can help
improve health status, quality of life
and coping behaviors. It can improve
depression and fatigue in cancer
patients on chemotherapy, and help
prevent burnout in caregivers. It’s also
been used to help prepare children for
painful medical procedures, as well as
to improve the speech of children with
cerebral palsy.
First of all art teaches life skills.
Problems can have more than one solution,
{Questions can have more than one answer.
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of Art
art teaches skills
CHILDREN
Creativity
Being able to t hink o n your f eet,
approach t asks from different
perspectives and think ‘outside of the
box’ w ill d istinguish your child from
others. In an arts program, your child
will b e asked t o recite a m onologue
in 6 d ifferent w ays, create a painting
that represents a memory, or compose
a new r hythm t o enhance a p iece o f
music. If children have practice thinking
creatively, i t will come naturally t o
them now and in their future career.
The s kills developed t hrough t heater,
not only train you how to convincingly
deliver a m essage, but a lso build t he
of t he stage. T heater training gives
children practice stepping out of their
comfort z one and a llows t hem t o
make mistakes and learn from them in
rehearsal. T his process gives children
large audiences.
Problem Solving
Artistic creations are born through the
solving of p roblems. H ow d o I turn
this c lay into a s culpture H ow d o I
portray a particular e motion t hrough
dance How will my character react in
this s ituation W ithout even r ealizing
it k ids that participate in t he a rts a re
consistently being challenged to solve
problems. A ll t his practice problem
solving develops children’s skills i n
reasoning and understanding. T his
will help develop i mportant p roblemsolving
skills necessary f or s uccess in
any career.
Perseverance
When a child p icks u p a violin f or t he
Bach r ight a way is not a n option;
however, when t hat child p ractices,
learns t he s kills and t echniques and
doesn’t give up, t hat Bach concerto
is t hat m uch c loser. I n an i ncreasingly
competitive world, w here people are
being a sked to continually develop
new s kills, perseverance is e ssential to
achieving success.
Focus
The ability to f ocus i s a key s kill
developed t hrough ensemble work.
Keeping a balance between listening
and contributing involves a g reat
deal o f concentration and f ocus. It
requires each participant t o not only
think about t heir role, but how t heir
role contributes to the big picture of
what is being created. Recent research
has s hown that participation in t he
arts i mproves children’s abilities to
concentrate and focus in other aspects
of their lives.
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why art is
important for
children
Art helps decrease and prevent negative
{behavior in at-risk youth.
why art is
important for
children
{
The only limit we have is the limit
we give to ourselves.
Art helps
Academic
Performance
prevents failure
What Kids
Will Learn
recapitulating
Current r esearch has s hown that
arts education can p lay a critical
role i n a child’s a cademic and s ocial
development. Well-designed and
executed arts education leads to overall
improved academic performance, builds
skills necessary f or w orkplace s uccess,
lives o f students. I n addition, r esearch
and formative evaluation of successful
arts programs have demonstrated that
access to and participation in art helps
decrease and prevent negative behavior
by at-risk youth.
The arts are also important in reaching
students who otherwise d o not
subscribe to traditional educational
programs. T hey can a ttract students
who have not achieved s uccess in
school i n other a reas. Many o f the
studies quoted refer to the academic
and failing students who are involved
in various a rts education programs.
I.e. In W elch 41% o f students at r isk
for high school dropout said that the
arts kept t hem i n school. Research
studies s how t hat a rt-based r eading
instruction p romotes better reading,
largely through the added motivation
that art offers for learning.
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• Creating art helps children discover
the unexpected possibilities of t heir
creativity.
• Art reminds us that the limits of our
our thinking.
• K id l earns t o observe and describe,
analyze and interpret
•Art teaches students about subtleties.
• Art teaches c ritical t hinking r ather
than getting the right answer.
• Through a rt children learn that
problems can have m ore than one
solution and t hat q uestions can have
more than one answer.
• Children l earn to express feelings,
with or without words.
• Art empowers children to s ay w hat
cannot be said.
• Kid practices problem-solving skills,
critical-thinking s kills, dance, m usic,
theater and art-making skills, language
and vocabulary of the arts
• School can be fun – playing can be
learning
• Children l earn to collaborate with
other children and with adults
• Art teaches children to evaluate and
make good judgments about qualitative
relationships.
• Arts i ntroduce children to cultures
from around the world
• Art celebrates m ultiple perspectives
and different ways to see and interpret
the world.
• Art teaches students to explore
through and within possible responses.
• Art enables us to discover the range
and variety of what we are capable of
doing.
• Kid can b lossom and excel i n the
arts. Even with physical, emotional or
learning challenges, can e xperience
success in the arts.
•
is not just one right way to make art,
every child can feel pride in his or her
original artistic creations.
• Arts build community. Schools with a
variety of differences can celebrate the
arts as one community
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why art is
important for
children
It is important to incourage and motivate
kids to do art.
Give them the chance to express themselves,
{to take risks and learn from mistakes.
What You
Need to Do
some good tips
• Ask “thinking” questions - do not
make suggestions and do not draw
for the child. i.e. To remind a child to
include ears, you should not ask “Does
your girl need ears” but ask him/she
a thinking question “What kind of
music does your girl like to listen to
How can she hear the music” or if the
mouth is missing don’t ask “Does the
face need a mouth” But “What is the
best tasting vegetable How does your
boy eat it” Artwork is owned by the
artist who comes up with the ideas.
Questions, not suggestions, allow this
ownership based on observing, on
experiences and on the imagination.
• Encourage children to be choice
makers. If a child asks you for help,
you can help asking the child to give
several of her/his ideas. Be always
supportive “ Your ideas are great” and
• Always make arts and crafts supply
available and accessible for kids -
paper, pencil, crayons, etc.
• Celebrate child’s artwork – hang
their drawings on the wall or save it in
a folder. That way, the child feels that
her/his creation is important.
• Read books – they really help children
imagination.
• Encourage practice-practice-practice
while coaching to improve practice
techniques and to make the hard stuff
easy enough so that discouragement
does not set in. Try to make learning
hard enough to be challenging (not
boring), and easy enough to avoid total
frustration.
• Encourage experimentation as
learning. Even when you think
something will not work, it is often better
to encourage a child to learn from
experience rather than to extinguish
the experiment before it starts.
• Celebrate mistakes as learning. The
lack of mistakes is an indication of
“playing it too safe.” Many new ideas
emerge from mistakes and solutions
to mistakes. Both art and science are
began as mistakes. Teach the child not
to fear mistakes and help the kid to
discover what he/she can learn from
them.
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It has always been easy for Saskia to tell her
mother’s remarkable story…
In 1938, when Brigitte Langer is 23, the Nazis claim the Sudetenland and
she is labelled a Mischling (mixed race) Jew of the 1st Degree. Courageous
and resourceful, she escapes the ultimate fate that awaited so many other
unfortunates, only to end up at the mercy of the revengeful Czechs at the end of
World War Two.
By 1954, when Saskia is born, a marriage of convenience seems to be the
only means to leave the Valka Refugee Camp in Nurnberg. The long awaited
emigration to Great Britain in 1961 finally promises security and hope to her
newly formed family. Yet, as she begins the second part of her journey, Brigitte’s
repressed past is never far behind her.
It is not so easy for Saskia to talk about her own life…
A nomadic, fostered childhood leads to an unsettled, potentially angry teenager.
When she is 13, Saskia learns the first of many of her mother’s secrets. Any
chance for teenage normality ends as she shoulders the psychological burden
of ensuring her mother’s happiness in an unfair world.
Saskia’s real journey begins with the death of Brigitte in 1992. Unravelling their
intertwined history, she has been coming to terms with her holocaust surviving
mother’s past, as she continues to search for her roots.
Surviving Brigitte’s Secrets
Surviving
Brigitte’s
Secrets
The true story of a mother and daughter’s
journey through war and its aftermath
Saskia Tepe

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Silvia Vazzana
Visual Artist
+44 07522 80 44 83
silvia.vazzana@hotmail.co.uk
community arts & graphic designer