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ART AT SMART BOARDING
Studies have shown that learning through art experiences, such as dance, drama, music, literature, poetry, storytelling, visual arts, film, craft, design, digital arts, media, photography and aesthetic education provides invaluable benefits to the children and the society.
1. Early childhood arts education improves vocabulary, communication and memory in young children
2. Arts involvement among disadvantaged students is related to finding a better job, earning degrees and volunteering.
3. Teens who attend three hours a day art classes on three days a week through one full year are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, to participate in a math and science fair, or to win an award for writing an essay or poem than children who do not participate
4, Greater arts education lead to fewer disciplinary infractions and higher attendance, graduation rates, and test scores.
ART THERAPY
Art therapy incorporates creative methods of expression through visual art media, painting, drawing, or modeling. It uses artistic expression and creativity for psychotherapeutic or personal development purposes.
Art therapy is an experience-based approach used to face emotions, decrease anxiety, enhance social skills, build confidence, and encourage mindfulness. Art therapy also fosters self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivates emotional resilience, promotes personal insight, aids in the reduction and resolution of conflicts, and advances change.
Art therapists use art and applied psychological theory and experience to make art therapy effective. The methods include to engage mind, body, and spirit in a manner different from that of talk therapy. It allows people to express themselves when words don’t work. It goes beyond simple arts and crafts and coloring books
NEUROGRAPHICS ARTS
Neurographics is a unique art method that instantly puts your mind in a relaxed state of flow, synergistically connecting your subconscious with your fingers as you draw. It is based on the ground that changing the thoughts and emotions of a person, changes his to her behaviors.
The benefits of Neurographic arts include increased mental clarity and positivity, increased motivation, a greater sense of peace, creativity and greater awareness. It is helps children to overcome shyness, dispel fears, become more sociable and open to communicating with people and motivates them to study.
It is is a fun and exciting way to tap into the healing power of creativity, and a powerful tool for self-expression, to manage anxiety, depression and de-stress. It is even effective on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.