Art is vital to sustain life. Let’s recognise the areas of focus in our Art Classes and its transformative impacts:
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Art Improves Academic Performance: Art stretches our imagination, improves observation, attention span, brain plasticity, resulting in tremendous improvement in academic performance. It enhances creative skills increasingly linked with long-term professional success.
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Art education fosters collaboration and group learning: Practicing art helps improve not just creativity, but it improves learning in areas like Math and Science as well as the literary field.
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Learning about arts prepares students for life after school: Arts subjects encourage self-expression and creativity and builds confidence as well as a sense of individual identity.
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We provide choices: We work with a wide range of materials for our students to use like oil and acrylic colors on canvas, poster colors, brush pens, pastels, pens, pencils, charcoal, clay, mix media and much more. Engaging in the creative process helps us tap into a meditative state that calms the mind to help promote holistic wellness.
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We support and don’t lead: Have you ever noticed that activities become much less fun when they are dictated by someone else ? We have a consultative process and through interactions our students participate in deciding what materials, colors they want to use and what final composition they want to come up with. This process helps in decision-making and inventiveness.
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We keep it open-ended: Instead of sitting down with a specific plan or outcome in mind, we let our students explore, experiment and use their imagination. They might make a big mess or change their mind several times—this is all part of the creative process. It encourages neural development, problem-solving abilities while they seek alternative ways of seeing and understand their surroundings.
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We focus on the process and not only the end product: We encourage our students to express themselves freely with intrinsic motivation, without worrying about what others think and about the final outcome. If a lot of attention is given to the final product or praising the end result, a child may be more likely to do things to get your approval instead of doing what they want to do.
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Each child is unique and is treated differently: They may spend the time thinking and seeing what others are doing instead of actually drawing. This is also part of their creative process. Children learn through exploring and trial and error. When we give them freedom to discover, they are learning to create and experiment in new and innovative ways.
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No Judgements and only encouragement: We always encourage children to explore their artistic and creative side. Make sure you as a parent understand there is to be no judgment, no criticism – only encouragement. After every painting, take a moment to talk about what was done and how the child feels about it.
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Art and Decision making: Children feel a sense of emotional satisfaction when they are involved in making art. Deciding what they will make and what materials they will use is the first opportunity to make independent choices and decisions. Art fosters regulation of emotions, openness to innovation and ideas.
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Art and Cognitive Development: They also learn how to draw meaning from visuals and communicate through them. On a deeper level, art has a positive impact on learning, understanding patterns, making observations about the world and forming mental representations.
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Art helps better mind and body Coordination: Improved skills and control, hand-eye coordination and muscle development can be achieved through the different modalities of art. These activities help children to coordinate their thoughts and body movements, one of the steps of development.
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Art as a Therapy: Self-expression through creativity has therapeutic value. Visual art is a powerful tool to process your emotions to reveal someone’s thoughts, feelings, and psychological disposition. Art therapy helps children and adults explore their emotions, improve self-esteem, relieve stress and improve symptoms of depression and anxiety or even as a means to find beauty in life.
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All work and no art make your child a dull person: Drawing and painting are erroneously considered by many to be only a recreational activity thereby ignoring the health and other development benefits. Research indicates that students who take high-quality art classes indeed do better in other courses too.