Art chronicles our own lives and experiences over time. Art reflects cultural values, beliefs and identity and helps to preserve the many different communities that make up our world. Art documents events and experiences and allows us a richer understanding of history. Art Tells Our Story: Art is a history lesson, an historical record, a preservation of culture, and an autobiography all in one. Art provides a release, a place for reflection and away to engage our whole selves. Experiencing art also gives us reason to think and be reflective or may inspire us to get up and dance. The process of creating art engages both the body and the mind and provides us with time to look inward and reflect. Art is Healing: Creating or experiencing art can relax and sooth us or it may enliven and stimulate us. We need art to have a full range of expression.ģ. Art helps us to share thoughts, ideas and visions that may not be able to be articulated any other way. Art offers us a method to communicate what we may not necessarily fully understand or know how to express. Art is Communication: Art, like language, is a medium to express ideas and to share information. We need art because it makes us complete human beings.Ģ. Put very simply, art is a part of who we are. Like language and laughter, art is a fundamental human behavior. Children, the world over, instinctively make.

Art is a Natural Human Behavior: Creating art is a primal behavior. Here are five reasons why I believe we need art:ġ. Perhaps not placing value on something that we ourselves could make or expecting things to be easily understood speaks to the loss of thoughtfulness and creativity in our world and only magnifies our need for the arts. Often I have heard someone dismiss a work of art by saying, “I could do that” or “I don’t understand it”. Art has been created since time began, evidenced in cave paintings and rock art, and in today’s world we know that art can be a major economic force, yet we continue to question the worth of art. Art, in its many forms, exists in every community, every culture, and every country.

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