Youth Art Month park rapids enterprise | Saturday, March 26, 2022 |
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Art education nurtures vital skills Youth Art Month is an annual observance each March to emphasize the value of art and art education for all children and to encourage public support for quality school art programs.
Art is for all youth, not just the especially gifted. Art activities stimulate creativity, imagination, perception and selectivity so necessary for our future decision makers, business people, engineers, scien-
tists and teachers. Art education develops self-esteem, appreciation of the work of others, self-expression, cooperation with others and critical thinking skills – all skills vital to the
success of our children as they continue their education and enter the working world. Yet, art education is often considered a “fringe” program. In reality, it provides students skills they will need as adults.
Our fast-changing environment requires future leaders – today’s children – to be creative and imaginative in problem-solving. These skills are learned by students involved in art.
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Contributed / Simone Wolff
Simone Wolff excels at sports photography, as shown here. The senior launched her own business (simonewolff. photography@gmail.com). She’s been hired to shoot school events, like prom, or teams sports photos and portraits.
Photos by Shannon Geisen / Enterprise
Top Right: Evy Guajardo, a senior, focused on portraits in her first-ever painting class. Middle Left: Guajardo was inspired by the variety of human faces. “I really like the diversity between these four. It just shows that when someone looks like everybody else, it’s kinda boring,” she said. Middle Right: Evelyn Hummel painted Freddy Fazbear from a computer game, using acrylics. “I mostly draw, but I do paint some times,” said the freshman. “I haven’t drawn animatronics much, so I’d to learn how to draw them. It was a fun experiment.” Bottom Left: Nora Bolton, a freshman, captured WALL-E in acrylics during her first painting class. Bottom right: Junior Luke Hartung works on his entry for the 2022 Minnesota Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest. The junior said he had put many, many hours into the oil painting.
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