Study of one or more of the arts disciplines has many benefits throughout life regardless if a person engages in art-making on a regular basis. Some of the benefits for young people from a sequential standards-based arts education include the increased capacity to create and express, appreciate the arts and other cultures’ forms of expression, see relationships between the arts and their daily lives, and to investigate how arts create meaning while developing aesthetic perceptions.
To use the arts and intercultural learning in order to inspire a culture of peace and hope and educate for non-violent alternatives to create a sustainable, equitable, and harmonious earth society.
Art as a tool of exchanges and freedom in our societies: Few opportunities are given to develop children’s imagination. Artistic intervention then appears as an urgent necessity and complex operation. Artistic activities were settled to open a space of freedom and neutrality through art maintaining the artist’s freedom to create so as to find the good forms and themes to get the children's interest, always considering to open their vision over their own environment.
Art as a complement of educative approach: The artist’s contribution is developing and upgrading commonly with an educative approach carried by teachers. Within the situation of our societies, the artistic point of view is offering the possibility to run over the inhibitions and to allow a space of research much more easily than, for example, a language teaching process could. With few tools the artist succeeds in pushing ahead the children and bringing them to meet an original universe.
Developing short term intervention and seasonal framework (summer period). In order to establish continuity between each action and to allow a bigger ownership feeling of artistic practices by the young teams, creating a continuous work with children during the year.
Artistic and pedagogic intervention: It is obviously interesting to observe that if the artist is not strictly communicating his knowledge in a pedagogic way, he can transmit feelings, unusual vision and a specific energy that the young adults will remember during their own courses given to the children. It appears also that physical tools to support the teaching workshops are fundamental. Enhancing children’s imagination is importantly related to such imagination in determining the right tools used in the right place. What tools to be used?: videos, books, family support, strategic progress anticipation. All these elements commonly contribute to awake imagination. Artists have, more and more, to determine in advance and precise the methodology and the tools they intend to use with the children.
Marie Marzloff's input;
Art is really important to be developed as tool of changing the reality not only of the artists but also the people touched by art.Children that will look at a painting and been affected by it will in a way or in an other, change their prospective about things (even if it’s most of the time a really small change, it’s still really important) it’s way of looking at things, at life and at society.
Artists have to be really conscious of the level of responsibility (at an educational level) that when they do art that target of people with less possibilities or children.
Artists can also through their work involve new youngsters to be involve in an art process and way of expressing which is really important. For example, so much youngsters are falling into drugs, violence or other problems because they don’t find out a positive way of realizing themselves, and find out that someone who is in a process of creation have find this way to develop himself positively.
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