How does art influence you as a person?

Art gives us meaning and helps us understand our world. Scientific studies have proven that art appreciation improves our quality of life and makes us feel good. When we create art, we elevate our mood, we improve our ability to problem solve, and open our minds to new ideas.

How the arts empower and heal the individual?

Q: How does art contribute to healing? A: Art is healing because it forces you to forge a connection between your mind and your body. Unlike exercise, which works your body, or meditation, which clears your mind, art-making accesses both mind and body to promote healing.

How is art being used in your everyday life?

All kinds of art can affect our mood in a positive way, making us feel happier, calmer, or even inspired to do something. Everywhere you go art is evident. Parks often use sculptures to add interest and to inform people. Posters on walls give information and motivation.

Why does art strengthen people’s cultural identity?

Art [including craft and design] is a kind of thinking/making which enables people to form and develop their identity. It is a self-affirming activity which helps us to interpret, think about, add to or challenge our cultural life.

How does art influence your daily life?

It makes the places we go and spend time in more interesting. Through art we can understand better our cultures, our history and traditions. In this sense it is communication; it allows people from different cultures and time to communicate through images, sounds, and stories that affect us all.

How does art help learning?

Art instruction helps children with the development of motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision-making, risk-taking, and inventiveness. The arts provide challenges for learners at all levels. Art education connects students with their own culture as well as with the wider world.

Why art has the power to change the world?

Why art has the power to change the world. “Art can motivate people to turn thinking into doing.”. One of the great challenges today is that we often feel untouched by the problems of others and by global issues like climate change, even when we could easily do something to help. We do not feel strongly enough that we are part

How can art make the world felt?

Art does not show people what to do, yet engaging with a good work of art can connect you to your senses, body, and mind. It can make the world felt. And this felt feeling may spur thinking, engagement, and even action. As an artist I have travelled to many countries around the world over the past 20 years.

What is engaging with art?

Engaging with art is not simply a solitary event. The arts and culture represent one of the few areas in our society where people can come together to share an experience even if they see the world in radically different ways.

What is art and why does it matter?

Art does not show people what to do, yet engaging with a good work of art can connect you to your senses, body, and mind. It can make the world felt. And this felt feeling may spur thinking, engagement, and even action.