What You Don’t Know About Art Class
Art classes can give teens vital skills that are useful for present day activities as well as our futures. The majority of people prospect art class as a place to relax, blow off steam or just to make fun doodles.
In reality, art courses hold so much more value and contain levels of depth that many are unaware of. One level of depth that is slightly separate from gaining direct useful skills is that teens can use their work as an outlet to express their emotions.
Transferring emotions onto paper, a canvas, or into a statue can help relieve anyone and is what makes many pieces so unique and beautiful. Harborfields senior, Jude Callan says ¨Art is an amazing way for teens to express themselves.”
“Art class benefits” (Love to Know), by Tania Dworjan mentions all of the advantages that art contains, specifically for teens. She depicts that art classes offer valuable skills that ironically, core classes, like math, do not. According to Dworjan, “teens develop a myriad of skills” (Love to Know), which include: Project development skills, a sense of pride and achievement, better time management, different hands on abilities, hand eye coordination, improved problem solving skills, social skills, more creativity, improved focus and attention to detail.
In order to do well in the course, students must plan ahead which accumulates to improved project development skills and time management. These projects are very time consuming so students will be forced to balance their time, which will eventually become a habit.
Completing these tedious projects is one of the best feelings because they take so much time and effort. Teens gain a sense of pride and achievement, especially when their work is put into an exhibit within the school.
Art encompasses many different mediums like sketching, painting, clay work, paper projects and glass staining which leads teens to perform different hands-on abilities. Dworjan believes that “Art projects involve hand eye coordination. Continually doing these types of projects, such as over the span of a semester, can lead to improved abilities.”
While art projects boost creativity, which is good for the job market, they also require a lot of focus. Paying attention to small details will spread into other subjects and work areas, along with gaining more social skills. Many pieces require collaboration with other students.
Another crucial asset is learning how to fix something that goes wrong in your project without harming the rest of it. ¨These types of isolated problem solving skills are essential in the development of a teens motor functions.¨ (Love to Know)
Art classes hold substantial value and there is so much more to it than just paint on a canvas or pencil on paper. Students in art classes are gaining crucial experiences that will lead to having a stupendous future, while having fun.