Art in education and its importance [Video]

According to the Ellen Noel Art Museum, not every K-12 school can focus on the arts with their students. 

“I think that we’re because we’re free, we just want to have exposure to art. So, any time that we have like when we have our third graders come through, when the kids’ classes come through, we always invite them to come back and bring their parents,” said Annie Stanley, educator at the museum. “A lot of these kids are not going to get art in their classrooms. I think we have just a handful of elementary schools that have art teachers, so that’s why we try to provide a lot of free activities.”

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