2013 ArtHaus Summer Art Camp
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The importance of arts education is why the ArtHaus Foundation exists. Below is a quick overview of arts educations importance developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations.
The arts are worth studying simply because of what they are. Their impact cannot be denied. Historically, the arts have served to connect our imaginations with the deepest questions of human existence: Who am I? What must I do? Where am I going?
The arts are used to achieve a multitude of human purposes: to present issues and ideas, to teach or persuade, to entertain, to decorate or please. Becoming literate in the arts helps students understand and do these things better.
The arts are integral to everyone's daily life. Our personal, social, economic, and cultural environments are shaped by the arts at every turn.
The arts offer unique sources of enjoyment and refreshment for the imagination. They explore relationships between ideas and objects and serve as links between thought and action. Their continuing gift is to help us see and grasp life in new ways.
The arts help students develop the attitudes, characteristics, and intellectual skills required to participate affectivity in todays society and economy.
"ArtHaus educational programs are designed in the spirit of Dorothy Johnson
who raised the arts education standards to new heights during her tenure as
Volusia County Art Supervisor from 1966-1987." ArtHaus programs are
sponsored in part through the generosity of the News-Journal, Target stores and
the Port Orange Community Trust. |
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