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10 Reasons for the Importance of Art (With Benefits to You)

By: Author Paul Jenkins

Posted on Published: May 2, 2022  - Last updated: September 26, 2023

Categories Art , Community , Creativity , Education , Society

We all know that art is important, but do we really know why? Here are ten reasons why art is so important in our lives. Whether it’s painting, drawing, sculpture, or even just appreciating beautiful landscapes, art can truly touch our hearts and change our lives for the better.

1. Art Is a Form of Expression

Personal creative expression.

One of the best things about art is that it’s a powerful form of self-expression. It’s an outlet in which you can share your experiences, thoughts, feelings and other aspects of your life. People have been using art to express themselves since prehistoric times, and the fact that they continue to do so today shows how important this function really is.

Art can reflect who you’re as an individual and what you stand for without you having to say anything.

Cultural Expression and Experience

Art can be understood from different cultural perspectives and has different meanings depending on the culture it comes from.

It can help us relate to each other by understanding the differences between our cultures through their traditions, customs, and art forms, which helps us become more tolerant and see things from a different perspective.

Historical Expression and Experience

Art history and art education are important parts of any educational or self-educational curriculum.

Through paintings like “Town Clerk” or poems that describe life in wartime, like “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” we can go back in time and see what life was like in the past.

In this way, we can gain a deeper understanding of our history by putting ourselves in the shoes of the people who lived during that time and learn how they lived their lives on a daily basis – good or bad!

2. Art Can Improve Your Social Skills

Art can help you learn to work with others. Whether you’re working on a group project at school or an individual piece of art, it’s important to know how to collaborate and get along with others.

For example, if you’re painting a mural, it’s a good exercise to listen to your classmates’ suggestions. You may have wanted to use only cool colors, but one of your friends may think warm colors would be better. This is a good exercise to learn how to compromise so everyone can be happy with the final product!

Even though art may not come as easily to some students as other subjects like math or reading, there’s no doubt about how important art is to all children and students.

3. Art Helps You Cope With Anxiety and Depression

The experience of creating art can help you cope with anxiety and depression. It’s a way to express your emotions without using words. That means it can be especially helpful for young children because they’re still learning how to put their feelings into words.

Art therapy can also be helpful for people whose anxiety or depression keeps them from talking about their feelings with other people. In order to create something, you have to focus on the work in front of you and what you’re doing at that moment, not on the things that are worrying you.

4. Arts Are a Fun and Creative Way to Stay Active

Painting, making music, dancing, or even crafting – all require you to move your body freely. The most important thing is that these arts are usually fun and bring joy.

If you’re more interested in painting, dancing, and other arts, don’t worry, because doing them will stretch your body well, which will help you stay active.

You can join a group or club that’s to do with art and actively participate in it. You can enroll in an art class or even participate in art competitions if you’re a competitive person. An active life is never boring, so it’s important that you engage in a creative activity that keeps your mind and body busy, such as art.

5. Art Is a Great Way to Relieve Stress

When you lose yourself in the moment, the art you do can help you feel less stressed and more positive. For example, if you do pottery at school, you can forget your worries and focus on what you’re doing.

It can also help you feel less distracted and more relaxed and focused.

• Art is a great way to relieve stress.
• It helps you relax and get into a calm state of mind.
• Suppose you’re feeling stressed, anxious, or down. It can be hard to find the good things in life, but if you take time out from your problems and focus on your art, you can forget about anything bad and blow off some steam!

6. Art Helps You Express Your Emotions and Feelings

With art, you can express your emotions, feelings, and thoughts. It’s a very good means of communication when you cannot express yourself in words.

When you sit down to paint to express your inner self, the blank canvas gives you that freedom and helps you put your inner feeling into words or sentences. You’ll be surprised by the end result.

For example, if you love someone passionately but you aren’t able to find the right words to express the emotion, painting is a great way to do it. You can paint anything on the canvas, such as flowers or heart shapes in different bright colors that express your love for that person.

Even if you want to express your sadness or happiness through art, it works very well because it works wonders in connecting people and sending a message across language, cultural or age barriers.

7. Art Improves Critical Thinking Skills, Brain Speed, and Memory

Creative and critical thinking are important skills to have in the 21st century. Artistic work encourages you to accept more ideas, question more assumptions, and look at things differently.

Learning art helps you exercise your brain, which makes it work better. Taking art classes brings out other aspects of your personality that weren’t there before.

Learning artistic skills boosts your confidence by showing you the progress you can make with regular practice and determination.

By creating artwork, or having an arts education, you can express yourself in the medium of your choice (photography, sculpture, graphic design, etc.) and let others know what you’re thinking without using words.

8. Participating in the Arts Can Help Aging-Related Diseases

Studies have shown that participation in arts activities can help prevent or slow the progression of age-related diseases.

Researchers have found that participation in the arts:

• reduces depression and anxiety
• improves cognition
• fosters a stronger sense of identity
• reduces boredom

among many other beneficial effects.

There’s also evidence that participation in arts activities benefits people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Studies have shown that music reduces agitation, and provides a way to connect for those who suffer from verbal communication challenges as Alzheimer’s progresses.

9. People Who Learn the Arts Improve Their Visual and Spatial Ability, Which Has Been Linked to Improved Academic Performance and Academic Achievement

One is never too old to have a childhood.

Children and young people who participate in art classes also get a much-needed outlet for their imagination and creativity.

It’s even been shown that children who participate in art classes have better social skills.

Some types of art and arts education to consider are:

• Contemporary art
• Creative art
• Performing art
• Setting up an art project

10. Art Creates a Sense of Community

Art can be used to bring together people from different backgrounds, cultures, and beliefs. It’s a powerful tool for promoting communication and understanding.

Art allows people to talk about things they cannot normally talk about. It provides a platform to work through sensitive issues or break down barriers between people from different communities.

Art can challenge the status quo and address difficult issues that those in power might prefer to sweep under the rug.

Art has always been used as a powerful tool for social change, highlighting injustices and encouraging people to work together for a more just world. Art has been used as an effective form of protest against racial discrimination, violence against women and children, and war and poverty.

The Purpose of Art Is Much More Than Simply the Creation of Something Beautiful

The purpose of art is much more than just creating something beautiful.

Art and craft can inspire future generations, educate, and express, but it can also heal, criticize, and question. Art can help us understand each other, as well as our past. It’s a tool to build bridges between people of different cultures and ages. Art makes you think about what you see, feel, or even hear. With art, there’s no wrong and no right – it all comes down to your personal interpretation and taste.

Art can be used to:

• Inspire the world around you , if only to make your life easier and more beautiful. Many artists have made a living through their art and have been successful in doing so. They’ve inspired new generations with their work, created new ways of looking at the world, and given meaning to everyday life.
• Critique culture and society as artists often do. By taking a problem in our world and creatively addressing it, artists can make their voices heard without being too direct or preachy. Art provides a space where people from different backgrounds and perspectives can come together because they’ve something in common: what they see on canvas or paper.
• It educates people about issues that affect them every day but aren’t always at the forefront of their minds, such as how society treats women and minorities. Even in ancient times, art was used for educational purposes, depicting religious figures or telling stories from mythology; today, we see this kind of information in pop culture, too, such as in movies or television shows!
• It can heal us emotionally when we feel depressed because we’re surrounded by so much negativity all day – art can be an outlet where creativity can flourish.
• Employ people in creative industries
• Engage people in a new and productive creative process

Arts on the Brain

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How does art affect us?

It’s no secret that art can impact lots of people’s lives in very meaningful and deep ways. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” can attest to this much at the very least. Whether you think art is paint on a canvas or scenes from the nature that surrounds you, what we as a society deem art has an impact on us all.

Art is actually part of what historians deem necessary for a group of people to be considered a society! Art, along with writing, cities, government, religion, and social structure, is the very basis of life as we as humans have known it for millennia. So, it shouldn’t be surprising that art has both a mental and physical effect on the human being. 

To begin, music can have a significant effect on concentration. A lot of research has gone into its ability to help people hone their concentration, and theories such as the Mozart effect suggest that this effect extends to even spatial awareness. Physically, dancing is something that most people universally feel compelled to do when hearing a catchy beat. However, there is a physical effect besides dancing that not everyone feels: goosebumps. Studies suggest that 50% of all people experience this phenomena (Salimpoor, Benovoy, Larcher, Dagher, Zatorre, 2011), and is a result of excitement from music. It was found that dopamine production was very high while participants were listening to music, and this could suggest why music has been such a large part of cultures across the ages. 

Visual art can produce a lot of the same effects that music does. General feelings of happiness and calmness can be found and utilized via art therapy. Many people use these benefits of art to quell distress and solve problems in their own lives, and part of this effect is suggested to be caused by being involved in something tangible (Malchiodi, 2012). Tangibility is something that isn’t often seen when dealing with mental issues. Most all of our mental issues stem from the chemicals within us that dictate how we view situations and the reactions we have in regards to them, and while it may be possible to visualize how these chemicals work, you cannot mold your reactions and chemical outputs like you can mold a block of clay or paint a piece of canvas. Control is something that many who are struggling with internal battles such as mental illness or grief are desiring to achieve, and art therapy and other physical-emotional therapies can help achieve a more tangible version of this.

The picture I’ve included displays the ventral striatum, which has also been shown to be activated and produce dopamine when shown art via a study at Emory (Eastman, 2011). When shown a photograph versus an artistic rendition of the subject, participants were seen to have much more activity in the ventral striatum while looking at the art. This part of your brain is very close to the midbrain and plays a role in the decision making vs reward system. So, looking at art may actually be a reward from our brain’s point of view!

Overall, art is an essential part of the human experience. Even if it doesn’t play a big role in someone’s personal life, art shapes the world around us and almost everything we experience when we interact with others. Art impacts what’s on the T.V. when you turn it on, it impacts what you see in textbooks on ancient civilizations (be it cave paintings, classical works, or folk art), it impacts what comes on on your radio and what reaches the tops of the charts on your streaming services. Art impacts us all, whether it makes you sad, happy, or anywhere in between. 

Eastman Q. 2011 Jan 6. Viewing Art Activates Brain’s Reward Circuits.

Malchiodi CA. 2012. Handbook of Art Therapy, Second Edition.

Salimpoor VN, Benovoy M, Larcher K, Dagher A, Zatorre RJ. 2011. Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music. Nature Neuroscience 14:257–262.

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I love the subject of you blog post! I find it fascinating that humain beings are related by art. You do not need to speak the same language as the artist to understand his work. However, it is very personal at the same time since everyone has their own interpretation of what they see. It is also true art can become very useful for our everyday life, with Art Therapy for example. We can see the emotional impact it can have on humain beings.

Katie, fascinating ideas! I totally agree with what you explained about how art has a significant impact on our lives even if many of us don’t think about it usually. Art, as a way of expression,. should be taken more seriously as it is inseparable from our daily life. We can see art almost everywhere around us and in almost everything we do. I liked how you introduce and literate the ideas on that. I am inspired in many ways!

I really like your post. The concept and definition of art is very broad and obscure, but it is also what makes it so interesting. Ranging from visual, to auditory, to a combo of both, or even though, art can mean a lot of things, yet they are hoping to communicate a message or feeling through the works. I think what is important, like what you mentioned in the end, is to realize the essential role of all forms of arts in our lives and appreciation the impacts they bring.

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Making Art Is A Uniquely Human Act, And One That Provides A Wellspring Of Health Benefits

The act of creating art serves as exercise for the brain and is integral to physical and mental health..

When you think about the word “art,” what comes to mind? A child’s artwork pinned to the fridge? A favorite artist whose work always inspires? Abstract art that is hard to understand?

Each of these assumes that making art is something that other people do, such as children or “those with talent.”

However, as I explain in my book “ The Expressive Instinct ,” art is intrinsic to human evolution and history. Just as sports or workouts exercise the body, creating art exercises the imagination and is essential to mental as well as physical well-being.

I am a professor of art therapy who studies how creative self-expression affects physical and emotional health. In our clinical research studies, my colleagues and I are finding that any form of creative self-expression – including drawing, painting, fiber arts, woodworking or photography – can reduce stress , improve mood and increase self-confidence.

As a sickly child who needed to stay home from school a lot, I found that making art helped me cope. Today, creating art is my sanctuary. I use it as a sounding board to better understand myself and a way to recharge and learn from the challenges of life.

The Uniquely Human Attribute of Creativity

Although everyone has their own concept of what defines art, one thing is universally true: Creativity is a defining feature of the human species.

How so? Well, human brains are not computers processing data. They are biological prediction machines that perceive the environment through memories and the senses, with the capacity to use that information to imagine plausible future scenarios.

These inherent predictive and imaginative capacities are the wellspring of humanity’s abilities to survive and thrive – because self-expression is a safety valve that helps us cope with uncertainty. No one truly knows the future; they must live each day not sure of what will happen tomorrow. Art can help us all practice this imaginative muscle in a useful way.

In our study examining brain activity while using virtual reality tools to create 3-D digital artwork, my team demonstrated that creative expression is a natural state of being . The brain naturally uses fewer cognitive resources to be expressive and creative, compared with the brain power needed to do a rote task that requires conscious effort.

Seemingly ordinary everyday activities can provide opportunities to tap into one’s natural creativity and imagination: whipping up a meal from leftovers, figuring out an alternate route to work, dancing a little jig in response to hearing a song, or planting and tending a garden.

We have repeatedly found in our studies that even a single session of real and honest self-expression can improve self-confidence and reduce feelings of stress , anxiety and burnout .

This is partly because creativity activates reward pathways in the brain. Using our hands and bodies to express ourselves activates dopamine pathways and helps us feel good. Dopamine is a neural messenger that is associated with feeling a sense of hope, accomplishment or reward . Our brains are wired to secrete feel-good hormones whenever we move , create something or engage in any type of expressive activity.

Tapping into the creative resources within is one of the most underrated seeds of well-being in the world.

By comparison, bottling up or denying these feelings can cause distress , anxiety and fear because we have not processed and expressed them. This is probably one of the reasons why every community around the world has its own creative and expressive practices. Even our ancestors in Indigenous communities all around the world intuitively knew that self-expression was essential to emotional health and social connection.

Being unable to share our lives, keeping secrets and feeling isolated and lonely tend to worsen our health . To our brains, social isolation feels like a chronic disease because it interprets this loneliness and inability to express as a threat to survival.

Since creative expression can engage the senses, it can also be a body workout: a sensual as well as emotional and cognitive experience. Being active in expression – be it art, music, dance, drama, writing, culinary arts or working with nature – imparts a sense of confidence and hope that challenges can be navigated and overcome .

The Role of Art Therapy

Given the integral role of art in our lives, it makes sense that making art can help people manage transitions, adversity and trauma, such as the stresses of puberty, the death of a loved one or experiencing a serious illness .

According to a global study, 1 in 2 people will experience a mental-health-related challenge in their lifetime , whether from life’s challenges, genetic predispositions or a combination of the two.

This is where art therapy can come in. Art therapy is a regulated mental health profession in which clinical psychotherapists with extensive clinical training offer psychotherapy to patients with diagnosed mental health needs.

The origins of art therapy go back to attempts to treat soldiers struggling with post-traumatic stress during the 20th century’s two world wars. Today, there is evidence that traumatic experiences tend to be stored as sounds, images, and physical sensations in the brain. When someone lacks the words to process these experiences through traditional talk therapy, art therapy can provide an indirect way to express and externalize those feelings and memories.

The process of making art can help people process feelings that they aren’t able to put into words.

One of art therapy’s unique strengths is that it provides nonverbal ways of communicating, processing and eventually managing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. In fact, in a recent study, my team has found that a personal history of trauma is related to how people react to evocative images . Images of distress and pain resonate with us when we have known similar kinds of distress ourselves. This implies that our life stories make us sensitized to distress in others and even personalize it more.

Creative self-expression is especially relevant in coping with trauma because it provides an outlet through which a person can regain a sense of agency and control.

How to Bring Creativity into Daily Life

For those new to exploring art as a creative pursuit or for well-being reasons, engaging in creative activities begins with letting go of unrealistic expectations. Being creative isn’t about becoming a famous artist or even a mediocre one. It is about allowing ourselves to flex the creative muscle that we all have and enjoying all the sensory and emotional aspects of imagining.

Next, think about activities that made you feel free to explore when you were a child. Did you like singing, playing in the outdoors, dancing, making up pretend plays, or writing little tales? Allow yourself to indulge in any and all of these creative pursuits that made you feel relaxed and joyful.

A cultural tradition , tinkering with electronics, making a gift for someone or simply paying attention to everyday beauty – any of these can be a creative activity. And just like any muscle, the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes. Over time, you will notice yourself getting more confident and adventurous in your creative practices.

Whatever it is, make time for this creative pursuit every week – which is possibly the hardest step of them all. If it seems “unimportant” compared with the demands of daily life, such as work or family, try thinking of it as another form of sustenance.

Remember that creativity is just as critical to human health as eating nutritious meals or getting exercise and good rest . So as the Latin saying goes: “Plene vivere.” Live fully.

Girija Kaimal is a Professor of Art Therapy Research at Drexel University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article .

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The Importance of Art in Daily Life

The word ‘Art’ is most commonly associated with pieces of work in a gallery or museum, whether it’s a painting from the Renaissance or a modern sculpture. However, there is so much more to art than what you see displayed in galleries. The truth is, without being aware of it, we are surrounded by art and use it on a continual basis. Most people don’t realize how much of a role art plays in our lives and just how much we rely on art in all of its forms in our everyday lives.

Art in the Home

Chances are you will have some form of art in your home . Obviously the first things that might come to mind will be a painting, print or photograph on the wall. If you don’t have any of these things adorning your walls, don’t panic, you’d be surprised at how much art you actually have in your home if you look around! Art is not purely for looking at and admiring, a lot of it is functional too, especially when it comes to our homes. Everything from a delightfully patterned quilt on the bed, decorative tea towels or that cute pink heart covered teapot to the sleek computer case or angle-poised desk lamp can be considered a form of art.

The Joy of Art

You may be wondering why all of these things are so important to our daily lives and that you could probably survive just fine with essential items that were non-artistic. That is just the reason why art is so valuable! While art may not be vital to fulfill our basic needs, it does make life joyful. When you look at a painting or poster you’ve chosen to hang on your living room wall, you feel happy. The sculpture or figurines on the kitchen windowsill create a sense of joy. These varieties of art forms that we are surrounded by all come together to create the atmosphere that we want to live in, which is personable to us.

Art and Music

The importance of art in our daily lives is very similar to that of music. Just like art, music can make life extremely joyful and can have a huge effect on our mood. In the workplace in particular, music is something that can help people set the mood for what they are about to do. If you have something hard or difficult to work on or are feeling tired, an energetic song will likely wake you up and add some enthusiasm to the situation. Similarly, when stress is high, many people find that relaxing to calming music is something that eases the mind.

Inspirational Art

Inspirational art, such as posters are often found in work spaces to encourage employees to continue being productive. There is now an increasing amount of companies using art in their offices , as well as playing background music, as it is proven to actually work in making end results far better quality.

There may be a piece of art that you own that you personally find motivational . Perhaps a print with a positive affirmation or quote beautifully scrolled on it or a painting of a picturesque scene of where you aim to travel to one day. I’ve even heard of people who put up posters of their favorite singer or Hollywood actress to motivate them to go to the gym!

Art is everywhere, influencing us on a daily basis, whether we realize it or not. With the art that we are surrounded by, whether it’s a painting, music or even videos can have a huge impact on our mood and emotions. Of course some art is very dark and can cause disturbing emotions, anger or even depression but we can choose what kind of art we want to be surrounded by in our own environment at home to make you feel good. All kinds of art can affect our mood in a positive way, making us feel happier, calmer, or even inspired to do something.

Everywhere you go art is evident. Parks often use sculptures to add interest and to inform people. Posters on walls give information and motivation. Music plays on the radio to keep your energy levels up. Without even realizing it we find ourselves immersed in the power of art most of the time!

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The Role and Importance of Art in Our Daily Lives

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Art can change our lives and the way we view the world. It can engage, provoke thought, create moments of discovery. It can inspire, motivate, and transform.

For businesses, art can be an experience that connects people to your brand. From multifamily residential developments to corporate office spaces and hotels, art experiences make you stand apart from the crowd, draw guests in and inspire creativity among employees.

But for many, it begins with the question of return on investment. Is art really good business? In our inaugural State of the Art survey , two thirds of people are certain that art adds enough value that the artwork pays for itself. And almost half of respondents believe artwork adds ROI beyond its cost.

It’s safe to say, art plays a critical role in our daily lives and in business strategy.

Art builds connection with your brand, your employees and the communities you serve

Art can bring your brand to life. In fact, two-thirds of people say it’s ‘absolutely critical’ or ‘very important’ that art expresses the brand, mission and vision.

Truly successful art projects build deep alignment with a brand and its goals. This begins with discovery into who you are as an organization and the brand narrative of your project or property. From there, the challenge is to build an art goal and vision, telling your story in a unique and visual way.

Art can also become an ode to the local flare. An emerging trend is the use of art that takes inspiration from a community, as well as creates a sense of place. At the 7/S Denver Haus , a multifamily apartment complex in Denver, the art experience is built around community engagement. The multifamily dwelling regularly features local emerging artists and themes of color, material and vibrancy to tie into the eclectic neighborhood surrounding 7/S.

Further, don’t overlook the value art can bring to your employees. Art has been found to boost moods, build engagement and create hope. Healthcare programs have utilized all types of art to help their patients remain calm and reduce stress. After all, art has been found to lower levels of anxiety and distress. This is especially poignant given the current climate. As your employees begin to transition back into the office, art can provide a sense of peace and tranquility in an otherwise unsettling time. 

Art can connect your employees to your space, developing a deep bond with the narrative of your brand and create a sense of unity. It can also liven up your office space and spark inspiration and new trains of thought. 

So how do you incorporate art into your workplace? Think about programs to engage your employees in art, the emotion and motivation behind it. Create an engaging art experience at your office, with rotating exhibitions from local artists. Do staff meetings at local cultural spaces. You can even embrace art while working from home. At NINE dot ARTS , we wanted our employees to connect to art, even while working from their homes. So we allowed each employee to pick out a piece of art for their home office. These types of small gestures keep art front and center for your employees, sparking creativity and productivity

Art creates unforgettable moments

Part of finding the right art for your space involves thinking through how someone will experience the art:

• How will it be viewed?
• Where will it be viewed?
• How do people flow through the space?
• What story do you want the art to tell?
• What are the existing architectural features you’ll need to consider?

While many think of art as simply being hung on walls, there has been a recent surge in large scale art pieces. These impactful creations are not only eye catching, but also create unforgettable moments for the viewer.

The recent Rev360 project in the Rino Art District did exactly that. A massive 55-foot-tall, 120-foot-wide public mural placed on a parking garage draws people in from the street. Its colossal scale makes people stop and look and invites them into a place where they can find more art and more experiences.

Another example is the Dairy Block Alley in downtown Denver. The Spilt Milk art installation is a landmark worth sharing. It’s rare to not see someone taking a selfie or a picture of the piece. And social sharing is good for business.

Businesses should consider all facets of their building and development when incorporating art. From a parking garage to an alley or an out-of-the-way stairwell , look for ways to make your space share-worthy, utilizing art that cultivates moments and memories.

Art builds experience

Over 90 percent of people say art installations elicit positive feedback . Art can stop us in our tracks, invite us in, make us think, and create a sense of place. Art can also pull us into a larger story.

The Perry Lane Hotel in Savannah, Georgia includes over 1,200 total pieces of art. It feels like a personal collection, gained over a lifetime of adventure. And that’s exactly what Perry Lane is striving for.

In order to immerse their guests in the stunning art collection featured throughout their property, the Perry Lane Hotel created a fictional character named Adelaide Harcourt who shared her collection of heirlooms, mementos, and artwork with the Perry Lane. A custom coffee table book tells the story of each piece from Adelaide’s point of view and an online tour of the collection draws visitors into the story, before, during, and even after their stay.

How art can continue to impact our daily lives and build better business

The stories brands choose to share will help set them apart in the new normal. A thoughtful, cohesive art experience unites a brand’s narrative and shares it in a visually stunning way.

After all, art is about more than a single artwork. It’s about curating a collection that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

16 Reasons for the Importance of Art in Life

Art is a form of expression that can take many different forms and serve various purposes. It’s been around since recorded history , with the earliest evidence of art dating back to prehistoric times, and it has had an important role in society ever since.

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16 Benefits of Art in Life

Art is considered to be a form of self-expression. It allows us to communicate ideas, emotions, and feelings without relying on words. This can help people better understand one another and create a stronger community . However, there is various other importance of art in life which are the following:

1. Art is an expression of emotion

Art has the unique power to express emotion in ways that words simply cannot. It can be both a powerful and therapeutic tool for those looking to communicate their innermost thoughts and feelings. It can also provide insight into emotions that we may not understand on our own.

2. Art can provide an escape from reality

The importance of art in life cannot be neglected. Art can be a way to take a break from the everyday stresses of life and find solace in an imagined world. Whether it’s through painting, writing , or another form of art, creating art allows us to explore our own thoughts and feelings without the pressure of reality.

3. Art encourages critical thinking

Art encourages us to think beyond what is immediately visible and consider the implications of our work from different perspectives. By engaging with art, we can practice creative problem-solving and hone important skills such as empathy , communication , and collaboration .

4. Art brings people together

By exploring different forms of art, we’re able to discover similarities and make connections between things that may not have been obvious before. This kind of learning helps us form a deeper understanding of the world around us

5. Art fosters an appreciation for beauty

Suggested readings, 6. art builds self-esteem.

Creating art can give us a sense of accomplishment and pride in our work. By engaging with art and expressing ourselves, we build confidence and become more open to trying new things and taking risks.

Art also encourages self-reflection, allowing us to gain insight into who we are and how we feel about ourselves. This can be an invaluable tool for building self-esteem and a positive outlook on life. Art has the potential to make us better communicators, problem-solvers, and thinkers. In a world of uncertainty and stress, art can be a powerful tool for connection and self-expression.

7. Art promotes problem-solving

The creative process of art-making can also help us develop problem-solving skills, as we learn to identify the underlying causes of a problem and strategically approach it from different angles.

8. Art stimulates the imagination

When creating art, we can also tap into our own inner worlds, exploring our feelings and emotions safely and constructively. This kind of self-expression can help us better understand ourselves and develop important skills such as communication, empathy, and resilience .

9. Art inspires empathy

Art has the power to inspire empathy by allowing us to explore different perspectives and gain insight into the lives, emotions, and experiences of people from all walks of life. Through art, we can develop a greater appreciation for those who are different from us and learn to connect with them on a deeper level.

10. Art is a form of communication

Art is an incredibly powerful form of communication. It has the ability to evoke emotion and create connections between individuals and cultures, while also providing an avenue of self-expression. Through art, we can explore different perspectives, express our feelings and identities, and build meaningful relationships.

11. Art is healing

Art can be a profoundly therapeutic and healing experience. It has the power to help us process difficult emotions, come to terms with stressful situations, and build resilience. Research has shown that engaging in art-making activities can help reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other mental health disorders.

The creative process of making art allows us to explore our inner worlds, express our feelings and emotions, and gain a better understanding of ourselves.

By engaging in art-making activities, we can practice self-reflection and gain insight into our own thoughts and feelings. Art can also provide us with an opportunity to connect with others on a deeper level, build meaningful relationships, and create positive changes in our lives.

12. Art is beautiful

Looking at art can be enjoyable and uplifting, while also encouraging us to think differently about the world around us.

13. Art is educational

Art can also teach us important lessons about ourselves and the world around us, from learning how to be creative and express ourselves to gaining an appreciation for diversity and understanding different perspectives.

14. Art can help us make decisions

Art can be a powerful tool for making decisions. By engaging with art, we are able to tap into our own inner wisdom and gain insight into our own thoughts, feelings, and motivations.

15. Art fosters innovation

Art has the power to foster innovation , allowing us to explore different ways of thinking and come up with new ideas. By engaging with art, we can cultivate our creativity, expand our horizons and express ourselves in unique ways.

16. Art is a form of activism

Art is an important part of life that can have a profound impact on the lives of both the individual and society as a whole.

How Art can Improve your Quality of Life – Make Life Better

Art encourages us to view things from different perspectives and to think outside the box. It motivates us to form connections, inspires imagination and helps us process emotions. Art can also provide an educational experience, foster innovation and promote collaboration among individuals. All in all, art is an invaluable resource that can improve our quality of life in many ways.

Art is a fundamental part of life that can bring joy, meaning, and beauty into the world. It’s an activity that encourages creativity, self-expression, empathy, problem-solving skills and innovation. Art also provides comfort, teaches us about history and culture, helps us make decisions and fosters collaboration among individuals.

Yusuf is interested in exploring the world around him and making meaningful connections with it. He then express these ideas with words for the world to enjoy. In his free time, Yusuf loves to spend time with books, nature & his family.

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Feeling Artsy? Here's How Making Art Helps Your Brain

Malaka Gharib

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A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I'm a journalist on NPR's science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist.

I draw in between tasks. I sketch at the coffee shop before work. And I like challenging myself to complete a zine — a little magazine — on my 20-minute bus commute.

I do these things partly because it's fun and entertaining. But I suspect there's something deeper going on. Because when I create, I feel like it clears my head. It helps me make sense of my emotions. And it somehow, it makes me feel calmer and more relaxed.

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That made me wonder: What is going on in my brain when I draw? Why does it feel so nice? And how can I get other people — even if they don't consider themselves artists — on the creativity train?

It turns out there's a lot happening in our minds and bodies when we make art.

"Creativity in and of itself is important for remaining healthy, remaining connected to yourself and connected to the world," says Christianne Strang , a professor of neuroscience at the University of Alabama Birmingham and the former president of the American Art Therapy Association .

This idea extends to any type of visual creative expression: drawing, painting, collaging, sculpting clay, writing poetry, cake decorating, knitting, scrapbooking — the sky's the limit.

"Anything that engages your creative mind — the ability to make connections between unrelated things and imagine new ways to communicate — is good for you," says Girija Kaimal . She is a professor at Drexel University and a researcher in art therapy, leading art sessions with members of the military suffering from traumatic brain injury and caregivers of cancer patients.

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Can poetry keep you young science is still out, but the heart says yes.

But she's a big believer that art is for everybody — and no matter what your skill level, it's something you should try to do on a regular basis. Here's why:

It helps you imagine a more hopeful future

Art's ability to flex our imaginations may be one of the reasons why we've been making art since we were cave-dwellers, says Kaimal. It might serve an evolutionary purpose. She has a theory that art-making helps us navigate problems that might arise in the future. She wrote about this in October in the Journal of the American Art Therapy Association .

Her theory builds off of an idea developed in the last few years — that our brain is a predictive machine. The brain uses "information to make predictions about we might do next — and more importantly what we need to do next to survive and thrive," says Kaimal.

When you make art, you're making a series of decisions — what kind of drawing utensil to use, what color, how to translate what you're seeing onto the paper. And ultimately, interpreting the images — figuring out what it means.

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"So what our brain is doing every day, every moment, consciously and unconsciously, is trying to imagine what is going to come and preparing yourself to face that," she says.

Kaimal has seen this play out at her clinical practice as an art therapist with a student who was severely depressed. "She was despairing. Her grades were really poor and she had a sense of hopelessness," she recalls.

The student took out a piece of paper and colored the whole sheet with thick black marker. Kaimal didn't say anything.

"She looked at that black sheet of paper and stared at it for some time," says Kaimal. "And then she said, 'Wow. That looks really dark and bleak.' "

And then something amazing happened, says Kaimal. The student looked around and grabbed some pink sculpting clay. And she started making ... flowers: "She said, you know what? I think maybe this reminds me of spring."

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Through that session and through creating art, says Kaimal, the student was able to imagine possibilities and see a future beyond the present moment in which she was despairing and depressed.

"This act of imagination is actually an act of survival," she says. "It is preparing us to imagine possibilities and hopefully survive those possibilities."

It activates the reward center of our brain

For a lot of people, making art can be nerve-wracking. What are you going to make? What kind of materials should you use? What if you can't execute it? What if it ... sucks?

Studies show that despite those fears, "engaging in any sort of visual expression results in the reward pathway in the brain being activated," says Kaimal. "Which means that you feel good and it's perceived as a pleasurable experience."

She and a team of researchers discovered this in a 2017 paper published in the journal The Arts in Psychotherapy . They measured blood flow to the brain's reward center, the medial prefrontal cortex, in 26 participants as they completed three art activities: coloring in a mandala, doodling and drawing freely on a blank sheet of paper. And indeed — the researchers found an increase in blood flow to this part of the brain when the participants were making art.

This research suggests making art may have benefit for people dealing with health conditions that activate the reward pathways in the brain, like addictive behaviors, eating disorders or mood disorders, the researchers wrote.

It lowers stress

Although the research in the field of art therapy is emerging, there's evidence that making art can lower stress and anxiety. In a 2016 paper in the Journal of the American Art Therapy Association , Kaimal and a group of researchers measured cortisol levels of 39 healthy adults. Cortisol is a hormone that helps the body respond to stress.

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They found that 45 minutes of creating art in a studio setting with an art therapist significant lowered cortisol levels.

The paper also showed that there were no differences in health outcomes between people who identify as experienced artists and people who don't. So that means that no matter your skill level, you'll be able to feel all the good things that come with making art.

It lets you focus deeply

Ultimately, says Kaimal, making art should induce what the scientific community calls "flow" — the wonderful thing that happens when you're in the zone. "It's that sense of losing yourself, losing all awareness. You're so in the moment and fully present that you forget all sense of time and space," she says.

And what's happening in your brain when you're in flow state? "It activates several networks including relaxed reflective state, focused attention to task and sense of pleasure," she says. Kaimal points to a 2018 study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology , which found that flow was characterized by increased theta wave activity in the frontal areas of the brain — and moderate alpha wave activities in the frontal and central areas.

So what kind of art should you try?

Some types of art appear to yield greater health benefits than others.

Kaimal says modeling clay, for example, is wonderful to play around with. "It engages both your hands and many parts of your brain in sensory experiences," she says. "Your sense of touch, your sense of three-dimensional space, sight, maybe a little bit of sound — all of these are engaged in using several parts of yourself for self-expression, and likely to be more beneficial."

A number of studies have shown that coloring inside a shape — specifically a pre-drawn geometric mandala design — is more effective in boosting mood than coloring on a blank paper or even coloring inside a square shape. And one 2012 study published in Journal of the American Art Therapy Association showed that coloring inside a mandala reduces anxiety to a greater degree compared to coloring in a plaid design or a plain sheet of paper.

Strang says there's no one medium or art activity that's "better" than another. "Some days you want to may go home and paint. Other days you might want to sketch," she says. "Do what's most beneficial to you at any given time."

Process your emotions

It's important to note: if you're going through serious mental health distress, you should seek the guidance of a professional art therapist, says Strang.

However, if you're making art to connect with your own creativity, decrease anxiety and hone your coping skills, "by all means, figure out how to allow yourself to do that," she says.

Just let those "lines, shapes and colors translate your emotional experience into something visual," she says. "Use the feelings that you feel in your body, your memories. Because words don't often get it."

Her words made me reflect on all those moments when I reached into my purse for my pen and sketchbook. A lot of the time, I was using my drawings and little musings to communicate how I was feeling. What I was doing was helping myself deal. It was cathartic. And that catharsis gave me a sense of relief.

A few months ago, I got into an argument with someone. On my bus ride to work the next day, I was still stewing over it. In frustration, I pulled out my notebook and wrote out the old adage, "Do not let the world make you hard."

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I carefully ripped the message off the page and affixed it to the seat in front of me on the bus. I thought, let this be a reminder to anyone who reads it!

I took a photo of the note and posted it to my Instagram. Looking back at the image later that night, I realized who the message was really for. Myself.

Malaka Gharib is a writer and editor on NPR's science desk and the author of I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir .

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2. Arts gives you joy

I smile whenever I sing my favorite song. Any kind of art can give you so much happiness.

3. Arts relieves stress

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4. Arts gives you the opportunity to showcase your talent

Even words don't give that much opportunity like art does. By showing our talent, we show that there is something special about us.

5. Arts gives you confidence.

When I sing or perform, I feel so good about myself. I feel there are no worries, hence I perform confidently.

6. Arts helps you do well academically

Trust me, just a few hours of art will help you relieve stress and give you happiness. With that, your mind will be clear, and that would help you focus on your studies, and that would help you get good grades. If you don't do art for a few hours, your mind will be stressed and you won't be able to focus and do well.

7. Arts helps you to communicate with other people

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Thanks to art, I have become a visual learner. Learning Visually helped me a lot in studies.

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So my request is to please take the arts seriously. Don't treat the arts as a useless thing. Don't think that it destroys education because it doesn't! To the education board, please don't ever think of cutting the arts. If you care about your student's education, then please consider the arts in your school. The arts bring out the best in everyone. Hope you understand.

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25 beatles lyrics: your go-to guide for every situation, the best lines from the fab four.

For as long as I can remember, I have been listening to The Beatles. Every year, my mom would appropriately blast “Birthday” on anyone’s birthday. I knew all of the words to “Back In The U.S.S.R” by the time I was 5 (Even though I had no idea what or where the U.S.S.R was). I grew up with John, Paul, George, and Ringo instead Justin, JC, Joey, Chris and Lance (I had to google N*SYNC to remember their names). The highlight of my short life was Paul McCartney in concert twice. I’m not someone to “fangirl” but those days I fangirled hard. The music of The Beatles has gotten me through everything. Their songs have brought me more joy, peace, and comfort. I can listen to them in any situation and find what I need. Here are the best lyrics from The Beatles for every and any occasion.

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make

The End- Abbey Road, 1969

The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful and so are you

Dear Prudence- The White Album, 1968

Love is old, love is new, love is all, love is you

Because- Abbey Road, 1969

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be

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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend

We Can Work It Out- Rubber Soul, 1965

He say, "I know you, you know me", One thing I can tell you is you got to be free

Come Together- Abbey Road, 1969

Oh please, say to me, You'll let me be your man. And please say to me, You'll let me hold your hand

I Wanna Hold Your Hand- Meet The Beatles!, 1964

It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. They've been going in and out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile

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Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see

Strawberry Fields Forever- Magical Mystery Tour, 1967

Can you hear me? When it rains and shine, it's just a state of mind

Rain- Paperback Writer "B" side, 1966

Little darling, it's been long cold lonely winter. Little darling, it feels like years since it' s been here. Here comes the sun, Here comes the sun, and I say it's alright

Here Comes The Sun- Abbey Road, 1969

We danced through the night and we held each other tight, and before too long I fell in love with her. Now, I'll never dance with another when I saw her standing there

Saw Her Standing There- Please Please Me, 1963

I love you, I love you, I love you, that's all I want to say

Michelle- Rubber Soul, 1965

You say you want a revolution. Well you know, we all want to change the world

Revolution- The Beatles, 1968

All the lonely people, where do they all come from. All the lonely people, where do they all belong

Eleanor Rigby- Revolver, 1966

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

With A Little Help From My Friends- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967

Hey Jude, don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better

Hey Jude, 1968

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday

Yesterday- Help!, 1965

And when the brokenhearted people, living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.

Let It Be- Let It Be, 1970

And anytime you feel the pain, Hey Jude, refrain. Don't carry the world upon your shoulders

I'll give you all i got to give if you say you'll love me too. i may not have a lot to give but what i got i'll give to you. i don't care too much for money. money can't buy me love.

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Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly. all your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise.

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Though I know I'll never lose affection, for people and things that went before. I know I'll often stop and think about them. In my life, I love you more

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1. "Haunt" your friends.

Follow them into their house and cause a ruckus.

2. Sneak into movie theaters.

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5. Wear a mask and pretend to be a floating head.

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6. Hold objects so they'll "float."

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7. Win every game of hide-and-seek.

Just stand out in the open and you'll win.

8. Eat some food as people will watch it disappear.

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9. Go around pantsing your friends.

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10. Not have perfect attendance.

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11. Avoid anyone you don't want to see.

Whether it's an ex or someone you hate, just use your invisibility to slip out of the situation.

12. Avoid responsibilities.

Chores? Invisible. People asking about social life? Invisible. Family being rude? Boom, invisible.

13. Be an expert on ding-dong-ditch.

Never get caught and have the adrenaline rush? I'm down.

14. Brag about being invisible.

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I have never been so thankful to know you..

I can't say "thank you" enough to express how grateful I am for you coming into my life. You have made such a huge impact on my life. I would not be the person I am today without you and I know that you will keep inspiring me to become an even better version of myself.

You have taught me that you don't always have to strong. You are allowed to break down as long as you pick yourself back up and keep moving forward. When life had you at your worst moments, you allowed your friends to be there for you and to help you. You let them in and they helped pick you up. Even in your darkest hour you showed so much strength. I know that you don't believe in yourself as much as you should but you are unbelievably strong and capable of anything you set your mind to.

Your passion to make a difference in the world is unbelievable. You put your heart and soul into your endeavors and surpass any personal goal you could have set. Watching you do what you love and watching you make a difference in the lives of others is an incredible experience. The way your face lights up when you finally realize what you have accomplished is breathtaking and I hope that one day I can have just as much passion you have.

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The love you have for your family is outstanding. Watching you interact with loved ones just makes me smile . You are so comfortable and you are yourself. I see the way you smile when you are around family and I wish I could see you smile like this everyday. You love with all your heart and this quality is something I wished I possessed.

You inspire me to be the best version of myself. I look up to you. I feel that more people should strive to have the strength and passion that you exemplify in everyday life.You may be stubborn at points but when you really need help you let others in, which shows strength in itself. I have never been more proud to know someone and to call someone my role model. You have taught me so many things and I want to thank you. Thank you for inspiring me in life. Thank you for making me want to be a better person.

Waitlisted for a College Class? Here's What to Do!

Dealing with the inevitable realities of college life..

Course registration at college can be a big hassle and is almost never talked about. Classes you want to take fill up before you get a chance to register. You might change your mind about a class you want to take and must struggle to find another class to fit in the same time period. You also have to make sure no classes clash by time. Like I said, it's a big hassle.

This semester, I was waitlisted for two classes. Most people in this situation, especially first years, freak out because they don't know what to do. Here is what you should do when this happens.

Don't freak out

This is a rule you should continue to follow no matter what you do in life, but is especially helpful in this situation.

Email the professor

Around this time, professors are getting flooded with requests from students wanting to get into full classes. This doesn't mean you shouldn't burden them with your email; it means they are expecting interested students to email them. Send a short, concise message telling them that you are interested in the class and ask if there would be any chance for you to get in.

Attend the first class

Often, the advice professors will give you when they reply to your email is to attend the first class. The first class isn't the most important class in terms of what will be taught. However, attending the first class means you are serious about taking the course and aren't going to give up on it.

Keep attending class

Every student is in the same position as you are. They registered for more classes than they want to take and are "shopping." For the first couple of weeks, you can drop or add classes as you please, which means that classes that were once full will have spaces. If you keep attending class and keep up with assignments, odds are that you will have priority. Professors give preference to people who need the class for a major and then from higher to lower class year (senior to freshman).

Have a backup plan

For two weeks, or until I find out whether I get into my waitlisted class, I will be attending more than the usual number of classes. This is so that if I don't get into my waitlisted class, I won't have a credit shortage and I won't have to fall back in my backup class. Chances are that enough people will drop the class, especially if it is very difficult like computer science, and you will have a chance. In popular classes like art and psychology, odds are you probably won't get in, so prepare for that.

Remember that everything works out at the end

Life is full of surprises. So what if you didn't get into the class you wanted? Your life obviously has something else in store for you. It's your job to make sure you make the best out of what you have.

Navigating the Talking Stage: 21 Essential Questions to Ask for Connection

It's mandatory to have these conversations..

Whether you met your new love interest online , through mutual friends, or another way entirely, you'll definitely want to know what you're getting into. I mean, really, what's the point in entering a relationship with someone if you don't know whether or not you're compatible on a very basic level?

Consider these 21 questions to ask in the talking stage when getting to know that new guy or girl you just started talking to:

1. What do you do for a living?

What someone does for a living can tell a lot about who they are and what they're interested in! Their career reveals a lot more about them than just where they spend their time to make some money.

2. What's your favorite color?

OK, I get it, this seems like something you would ask a Kindergarten class, but I feel like it's always good to know someone's favorite color . You could always send them that Snapchat featuring you in that cute shirt you have that just so happens to be in their favorite color!

3. Do you have any siblings?

This one is actually super important because it's totally true that people grow up with different roles and responsibilities based on where they fall in the order. You can tell a lot about someone just based on this seemingly simple question.

4. What's your favorite television show?

OK, maybe this isn't a super important question, but you have to know ASAP if you can quote Michael Scott or not. If not, he probably isn't the one. Sorry, girl.

5. When is your birthday?

You can then proceed to do the thing that every girl does without admitting it and see how compatible your zodiacs are.

6. What's your biggest goal in life?

If you're like me, you have big goals that you want to reach someday, and you want a man behind you who also has big goals and understands what it's like to chase after a dream. If his biggest goal is to see how quickly he can binge-watch " Grey's Anatomy " on Netflix , you may want to move on.

7. If you had three wishes granted to you by a genie, what would they be?

This is a go-to for an insight into their personality. Based on how they answer, you can tell if they're goofy, serious, or somewhere in between.

8. What's your favorite childhood memory?

For some, this may be a hard question if it involves a family member or friend who has since passed away . For others, it may revolve around a tradition that no longer happens. The answers to this question are almost endless!

9. If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be?

We all have parts of our lives and stories that we wish we could change. It's human nature to make mistakes. This question is a little bit more personal but can really build up the trust level.

10. Are you a cat or a dog person?

I mean, duh! If you're a dog person, and he is a cat person, it's not going to work out.

11. Do you believe in a religion or any sort of spiritual power?

Personally, I am a Christian, and as a result, I want to be with someone who shares those same values. I know some people will argue that this question is too much in the talking stage , but why go beyond the talking stage if your personal values will never line up?

12. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Even homebodies have a must visit place on their bucket list !

13. What is your ideal date night?

Hey, if you're going to go for it... go for it!

14. Who was/is your celebrity crush?

For me, it was hands-down Nick Jonas . This is always a fun question to ask!

15. What's a good way to cheer you up if you're having a bad day?

Let's be real, if you put a label on it, you're not going to see your significant other at their best 24/7.

16. Do you have any tattoos?

This can lead to some really good conversations, especially if they have a tattoo that has a lot of meaning to them!

17. Can you describe yourself in three words?

It's always interesting to see if how the person you're talking to views their personal traits lines ups with the vibes you're getting.

18. What makes you the most nervous in life?

This question can go multiple different directions, and it could also be a launching pad for other conversations.

19. What's the best gift you have ever received? 

Admittedly, I have asked this question to friends as well, but it's neat to see what people value.

20. What do you do to relax/have fun?

Work hard, play hard, right?

21. What are your priorities at this phase of your life?

This is always interesting because no matter how compatible your personalities may be, if one of you wants to be serious and the other is looking for something casual, it's just not going to work.

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Importance Of Art In The Society

Oct 23, 2019

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Importance Of Art In The Society. Art brings beauty into our world. Art is important because it makes our world a better place. It also brings a sense of enjoyment and pleasure.

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Art brings beauty into our world. Art is important because it makes our world a better place. It also brings a sense of enjoyment and pleasure. • Art allows for the expression of truth and beliefs. Some art challenges our beliefs. Other works affirm our faith. Art is an important tool in causing us to examine our beliefs in light of an artists' rendition or perception of truth.

Art has the ability to transport us to a different time and place. It allows us to gain historical perspective and understanding. Art allows us to appreciate different periods in history and their impact and significance in our world.

Art immortalizes people, places, and events. Artists create a visual record of life experiences commemorating the memorable and challenging social injustices, such as slavery and abuses, in time. Artists serve as historians in this role, documenting life on canvass, photography, or sculpture.

Art may be used to express chaos and misunderstanding, or to establish order from what appears to be chaos. Art helps us organize our world. It is one means by which we understand our society and culture, and the society and cultures of others.

Art is important as an intellectual stimulant. A good artist advances culture and civilization by provoking thought, introspection, and discussion.

Art triggers emotions. Subject, color, and texture are used by artist to evoke feelings. In this way art can serve as a catharsis, or help us uncover feelings of which we were previously unaware.

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Captivate Your Audience With The Art Of Presentation Storytelling

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One of the best forms of communicating is through storytelling.

Storytelling has been part of our ancestral past and is now i ngrained in the fibers our very being . It is how we communicate new ideas, lessons and above all us, emotions. Without storytelling, we truly are isolated to live life through our own experiences and interpretations of our “ordinary world”. Storytelling provides us with the social capabilities of finding common ground in our lives as we all go through existence independently. Storytelling gives us the ability to bring the tiny moments in our life that shape us into who we are to the foreground in a more monumental way and find common ground amongst one another.

The ability to tell a story that can influence people is an art form and a skill that will take you far in life. If you are able to master the art of storytelling, you will be successful in almost all parts of life if you know how to apply the skill appropriately . The same goes for the mastery of presentations and presenting.

Great presentations incorporate storytelling techniques which make them so engaging and have the ability to influence audiences. Stories engage audiences no matter what walk of life they come from because most great stories all hinge on simple, small moments most people can relate to.

What Is Storytelling?

For most people, storytelling might just seem like a linear recount of events, but it’s more than that.

Storytelling is not a linear recalling of events. It can not be reduced to the common formula of, “First ‘A’ happened, then ‘B’ and then ‘C’ is how it all ended.”. No – as mentioned earlier, storytelling really only hinges on about 5 seconds of a moment – a realization. The 5 seconds is the climax or the change and character arc of a story.

It is how “A” became “B”.

This change, in most stories really only takes about 5 seconds in the real-world but you help make that 5 second moment more impactful by sharing the setting, the build-up and the follow-up of that moment.

Storytelling happens in all walks of life. From the casual conversations held between family members in the kitchen to world-class presentation seminars. The art of storytelling spans across cultures and generations. For this, it is probably one of the greatest tools and techniques to ever be developed and one that will continue to shape and influence our lives.

The Best Story Structure For Different Presentations

Depending on the objective of your presentation, there are a few story structures you can use to help bring your point across. Below we’ve outlined some of the expected outcomes you may want out of your presentation. Depending on your desired outcome, we will share with you the best story structure to follow.

If you want to take your audience on a journey - Hero's Journey

This is the most common storytelling structure commonly found in myths, children’s stories and in movies. Like Star Wars or the Lion King, the Hero’s journey is about the protagonist leaving the comfort of their home in search of newfound wisdom or growth. Often accompanied by a sage or someone with experience, the protagonist grows and learns from their journey to return home as a new person. By the end of the story arc, the audience has seen first-hand the growth and development of the main character.

This is a perfect example of a great story formula unlike the common, misconception formula. This story shows the progression and change from “A” to “B”.

An added tip is not to overthink what these changing moments are. You do not need a grand change in character for a story to be good. The change can simply be a realization of truth. For example, when you pull away all the embellishments of the movie “Click” by Adam Sandler, it’s not a movie about time traveling and wondrous magical remotes. It’s a movie about how a father learns to appreciate every moment with their family – the good and the bad.

If you want to build tension - The Mountain

The second story technique is “The Mountain”. The Mountain technique is another common storytelling technique in which the storyteller highlights the growth in tension as the story progresses. Each step of the way, more tension builds till the climactic conclusion.

If you want to explain a central concept - Nested Loops

A “Nested Loops” storytelling structure allows you to highlight a core story by layering tertiary stories around the main idea. You put the most important part or message at the center and build around it.

Picture it like degrees of separation from the main idea. At the center is the moral of the story. The next layer might be from a perspective who lived the story first-hand. The second layer might be from the perspective of someone else. However, all of the stories relate back to the core theme.

If you want your audience to gain hope and take action - Sparklines

Using the Sparklines structure allows you to elevate people’s hope to create change. You tell a story, give them aspirations and juxtapose the hopefulness with the stark reality of the world we are living in now. This structure is great for eliciting motivation out of your audience by playing on their emotions of hope. By weaving in and out of the potential hope and the dismal reality, you create motivation for change.

If you want to grab your audience's attention from the start - In Media Res

What better way to get audience engagement than by placing them right in the middle of the action from the very beginning. Rather than building up to the action, you drop the audience right at the climax of the action. But note, just because you drop them in the middle of the action, does not mean you are dropping them in at the climax. The climax of the story is the 5 second moment when your character changes from “A” to “B”. The action however can lead up to the 5 second moment.

If you want to illustrate mutual relationship forming - Converging Ideas

One of the greatest ways of bridging people through storytelling is by using the “Converging Ideas” story structure. The “Converging Ideas”story outline can help illustrate how different ideas are similar to one another that lead to a similar outcome. This is especially useful in the business world of presentations that can help demonstrate to your audience that everyone wants the same end goal even if we have different means of getting to that end goal. This will allow you to show your audience that you are sympathetic and you understand them.

If you want to disrupt audience expectations - The False Start

Another great storytelling outline to use, especially if you are speaking to a veteran or seasoned audience is “The False Start”. After hearing so many stories, so many pitches that all follow the same structure, a false start leads your audience on a predictable path which turns out to be completely wrong. It’s an especially good way to tell about new and innovative ideas you’ve tried out. Rather than speaking to a conventional way of figuring something out, you can share new insights in an engaging way.

If you want to talk around a central concept through several ideas - Petal Structure

The last story structure is “The Petal Structure”. The Petal Structure is used when you want to focus more on the core message rather than the story. This structure typically uses more than one story either from one speaker or multiple speakers that all surround the core theme.

Why You Should Be Telling Stories In Your Presentation

No matter how different people’s thinking is, telling stories is an effective technique to get your central message across. Storytelling is an incredibly effective technique since it is ingrained in our DNA as humans. We are social creatures that thrive on the connection stories make. By being able to tell stories in your presentations, you will be able to influence more people. Here are some reasons why you should incorporate storytelling techniques in your presentations.

1 - Stories will make your business more human and relatable

Businesses are not human and humans want to do business with other humans. In order to have your business be successful, you need to be able to humanize it. Humanizing a business is often done through branding which is another form of storytelling. If you are giving a presentation on behalf of your business, you need to be able to make your business seem relatable and human. If you can master the art of storytelling in business presentations, you will be able to beat any sales team or marketing team.

2 - Stories will help you sell

Speaking of sales, storytelling in presentations will also help you sell. This goes hand-in-hand with how stories make businesses more human. If you are able to tell stories in your presentations, you will be able to sell. You will be able to sell better because you can connect your product or service as the golden ticket to the 5 second moment people are trying to achieve. As mentioned earlier, stories are really just 5 second moments of change when someone goes from “A” to “B”. Your product or service can be the catalyst to change what people are seeking and if you are able to present that with your story, you will be able to sell a lot more effectively.

3 - Stories can let you share knowledge

You may have a conference presentation in which you are trying to share knowledge and position yourself as an industry thought-leader. A great way to share knowledge and connect with your audience is by telling a story. A great way to share knowledge is by sharing the events you went through, how you overcame challenges of a difficult journey and have new found wisdom. Similar to the structure of a “Hero’s Journey”, you can make yourself the main character and demonstrate how you overcome challenges. By being able to talk about these personal experiences and give more detail of your own accounts, you are positioning yourself as an industry thought-leader.

4 - Stories can let you influence emotions

Lastly, one of the greatest abilities of skillful storytelling is the ability to influence emotions. We as humans are irrational beings and our emotions often dictate how we act in the world. If you have the ability to master the storytelling technique of influencing other people’s emotions, you can have them act in almost any way you desire.

How You Can Incorporate Stories In Different Presentations

Now that we know why you should incorporate stories in your presentations, let’s dive into how we can incorporate stories in different presentations. Now don’t forget, this isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. This is simply some thought-starters to get you thinking of how you can incorporate your own stories in your presentations. Depending on the presentation you are about to give, you may want to consider how you will angle your story to elevate your presentation.

Business Presentations

Throughout this article, we’ve heavily focused on the idea of presentation storytelling as it relates to business presentations . This is mainly due to the fact that most presentations you will encounter in your professional life are business presentations. You will often have to engage in these presentations whether they are internal meetings or client pitch presentations .

You can use storytelling in business presentations in order to relate and show understanding with your client. There is a famous quote in business which is, “People buy when they feel understood, not when they understand you.” Don’t make the presentation or the story about you. Make it about the client and how you understand them.

Research Presentations

In the world of academics, you will often be faced with research presentations . They might seem monotonous but how can you get an audience eager about the big and small challenges you’ve overcome throughout your research? With a story!

You can use storytelling in research presentations by taking the audience on a journey that centers around the one idea of your presentation, the thesis. This may be an unconventional way of presenting research findings and goes against the status quo, but it’s definitely a tactic not seen often which will surely engage your audience with your data and findings.

Interactive Presentations

As we move into a more digital-focused world, we will start to see more interactive presentations which allow the audience to get more engaged with the content you’re presenting. Interactive presentations allow the presenter to really connect with their audience to help get their messaging across. Interactive presentations also help keep the audience engaged and provide a robust learning experience for all. As the presenter, you’ll be able to get presentation feedback first-hand and in real-time from your audience by facilitating an interactive presentation. But, how can you take your interactive presentation from a good presentation to a great presentation? The answer is with storytelling!

If you’re going for an interactive presentation, you can incorporate storytelling by combining everyone’s voice. Although everyone probably won’t have the same level of skill when it comes to storytelling as you do, they can still share their own experiences. You as the presenter with storytelling techniques can help facilitate and combine the stories together into one cohesive story. The benefit of doing this is the audience will feel heard.

By using an interactive presentation format, especially by incorporating storytelling, you’re allowing the audience to bring their own truths and personal experiences into the discussion. When the audience has more of themselves invested in the presentation, the more likely they are going to remember what you have to say. There is no need for them to get into the storyteller’s brain and try and understand when they are the storyteller. They already have lived through their own experiences and they know the characters in their own story. This reduces barriers for communication.

Final Thoughts On Presentation Storytelling

As we wrap-up writing this article on presentation storytelling and the importance of this skill, we are going to summarize the key takeaways and what you should really remember going forward when it comes to your next presentation.

Now that you understand the value of storytelling skills as it relates to business communications, we hope you will implement these best practices and techniques in your own presentations. Developing your first story may seem daunting and it takes some time, but once you get in your rhythm for story development, you will be able to find the tiny moments in life that make for great stories.

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ART IN LIFE

In this lesson plan you will find an attempt to make students understand the important of art in their life.

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This lesson is centered on the explanation of some of the most famous artworks in the world. The idea is to contextualize the audience with the different types of art there are in the world and make use of it as a way to reflect and share their feelings and thoughts on it.

The main objective of this lesson is to understand   the importance of art in the personal development of students taking into account their feelings and emotions. Also, relate art with the control of stress and other common emotions. As well as explain the importance of arts as a way to express our thoughts and ideas.

Skill Focus: 

- Listening

Our foreseeable problems are:  Distractions -  Misunderstanding -  Lack of culture -  Lack of cooperation.

And our solutions for those problems are:  Interactive activities -  Attractive games -  Contextualization -  Accessible and understandable topics

According to the solutions, there are a variety of activities to explain the whole topic and engage the students. In the end, what we all expect from this is that students exchange opinions on situations of personal interest; has spontaneous and easy conversations about the topics, and answer questions and concerns after making the presentations.

Ice Breaker

With this activity, the idea is to make students participate actively and respectfully, organizing the letters to find the hidden word and evaluate beforehand, how much they know about famous artworks around the world. in other words, to make a contextualization and a brief opening about the lesson topic. .

JUMBLE GAME

In this section, students will be able to know more about the different types of art that exist. The topic will be explained by a short but meaningful presentation shown next:

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Activity with Genially using the vocabulary and information explained previously in order to make a review and make students participate. 

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This activity consists of a reflective exercise using different media from Youtube. The idea is to show some parts of the most recognized symphonies made by different authors like Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and Chopin. Then, using Padlet, students are going to make a reflection of what they listened to, expressing the feelings they thought the author wanted to express, and the way that the song made them feel. The reflection is free, so students can use many things to express themself. For instance, using pictures, sentences, emoticons, and even paintings. 

Video resource:  https://youtu.be/fbulfrqa-zm, padlet link:  https://padlet.com/u20191171940/pdlyt7zcpzl0y25u.

To finalize the explanation of the whole topic, we will need students to fill a short and easy quiz to evaluate their knowledge. In this activity, they are going to be ranked according to the correct answer, this will make the game a little competitive and interesting.

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At the end of the class, there will be a discussion about their experiences, using a course in Schoology, with the topic and the class, as well as with the activities. The idea is that students are going to comment between them which were the moments of the class that called more their attention and then, share with us, teachers, what are their suggestions for the next class.

Schoology code :  pbbx-xn9q-789g3.

Cesar Luis Hernández    20191176679

Heber Antonio Zabaleta   20191180835

Sebastián Rodríguez Suarez    20191178951

Kevin Jardel Ardila   20191177708

Valentina Rodríguez    20191171940

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'Dr. Ruth' Westheimer dies at age 96 after decades of distributing frank advice about sex

The diminutive 'sexpert' who helped americans talk more openly about sex has died at age 96, joking on social media until near the end..

“Dr. Ruth” Westheimer, the diminutive sexpert whose heavy German accent and straight talk about sex on radio and TV brought frank discussion about relationships into American pop-culture, has died. She was 96.

Known as "Dr. Ruth" for her books and radio and TV appearances, Westheimer died at her home Friday in New York City. It was announced Saturday by her frequent co-author and spokesman Pierre Lehu, who confirmed her death to USA TODAY.

"She was restful when she passed away," Lehu told People "Her son and daughter were with her and holding her hand at that moment ... It was as peacefully as she could possibly go."

Indefatigable until the end, Westheimer, who escaped the Nazis as a child in her native Germany, was writing and posting on social media about the many things that interested her as recently as last month.

"When I was younger I both skied and water skied so yes, I would have tried," she wrote on a June 27 post on X about a video of a woman sliding down a sand dune. "Maybe even last year at age 95!"

When I was younger I both skied and water skied so yes, I would have tried. Maybe even last year at age 95! https://t.co/BZyorsKI6e — Dr. Ruth Westheimer (@AskDrRuth) June 27, 2024

Dr. Ruth shared sex advice for young people

In a sit-down with USA TODAY to promote a 2019 theatrical documentary about her,  "Ask Dr. Ruth,"  she said she had some advice for the growing number of young people who say they're too busy, stressed or cash-strapped to go on dates.

"Don't be stupid. Make sure that you have time for sex," she implored. "Here is an activity that is so enjoyable and it's free. Make sure you have a relationship, and don't fall into the category of people who have lost the art of conversation."

She published three books in 2018 alone, and in January 2019 attended the documentary's premiere at Sundance Film Festival, where it received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics.

The film explores how Westheimer's tragic past shaped her into the joyfully candid and tenacious woman she became.  

It's 'so enjoyable and it's free': Dr. Ruth, 90, wants millennials to have more sex

Dr. Ruth on social media

Her entertaining X account is peppered with her perky posts, reflecting her upbeat, positive personality. 

"#FirstSnow and I'm staying home. Was supposed to go to party for new book but can't go. A little because I'm 90 and afraid of falling and a lot because no cars are available!" she wrote merrily from her trademark handle, @AskDrRuth, in November 2018.In between posting admiring comments on art she saw at galleries or enthusing about the possibilities of enjoying oral sex more in old age, she was plugging a Holocaust book about the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel,  "Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom."

"I don't plug many books but this one is important to me," she declared in a video clip. 

Her devotion to truth and history helped her overcome  her initial reluctance to cooperate with the documentary  (by filmmaker Ryan White), especially given her desire to keep work and family separate. 

Westheimer eventually warmed to the project as a way to share her refugee experience with others, but also to "tell Holocaust deniers to stop denying the Holocaust," she said. "There are people who say: 'Look, that happened so long ago. Stop talking about it.' So I have to combat that." 

To the end, Westheimer championed the benefits of remaining active even in old age. Boredom can be fatal, she preached.

"I'm really fortunate that I'm healthy and I love what I'm doing," she told USA TODAY. "I tell older people not to retire, but to rewire: They don't have to stay in the same profession that they are and can do something else. But don't sit home and be bored."

Dr. Ruth kept her personal life personal

Westheimer was always private about her personal life, including her three marriages. She was a bit coy with USA TODAY in 2019 about whether she was dating ("Next question," she says, laughing). 

Her third and final marriage, in 1961, was to Fred Westheimer, which she called her “real marriage.” It lasted until his death in 1997.

But she spoke fondly of her two grown children and four grandkids, with whom she spent any free time at home in New York. 

"I'm the proudest – write that in big letters – of my terrific four grandchildren, even when they beat me in chess," Westheimer said. "Mostly I take them to dinners or a show. I'm not a grandma who bakes cookies."

How Dr. Ruth came to fame

Westheimer, who had lived in New York since moving there from France in 1956, first gained fame in the 1980s (when she was in her early 50s) for publicly discussing explicit sexual advice that, experts say, had previously been taboo. As such, she was an influential, if improbable, force in helping to dispel the last vestiges of sex-phobic puritanism from American culture. 

She was first noticed in 1980 when she delivered a lecture to New York broadcasters about the need for sex-education programming to help deal with issues of contraception and unwanted pregnancies.

That led to a radio talk-show on WYNY-FM called "Sexually Speaking," which was such a hit it went on to national syndication and helped anoint Westheimer as a nationally recognized authority on sexual matters.

She “opened up a dialogue about sex in a country that was pretty closed-minded about having a dialogue about sex, which is no easy feat,” said sexuality educator Debby Herbenick of The Kinsey Institute, a sex-research group at Indiana University in Bloomington.

“People were so open to her persona. She was able to be on the radio and be on TV and have this large cultural presence that made an indomitable topic of conversation more comfortable − and even fun,” Herbenick said.

Dr. Ruth tells USA TODAY about her legacy

In an interview with USA TODAY in 2013, Westheimer discussed her legacy.

“I want people to know that I had the chutzpah − the nerve − to talk about subject matters that were not discussed before,” she said.

In that interview, just before turning 85, Westheimer spoke of being “fortunate to be in good health” and with an informal fitness routine.

“I don’t exercise, but I have a massage once a week. I do walk a lot. I don’t sit. I walk and I talk,” she says.

Although just 4-foot-7, Westheimer’s national prominence was large, from guest spots on late night TV to the cover of People. Although she was somewhat less visible in her later years, she did not retire.

Westheimer adapted to the times, talking about issues such as masturbation on her own YouTube channel and posting to her more than 113,000 X followers.

Even before social media, she was ubiquitous in the rest of the media: In the 1980s and 1990s, she made appearances on TV shows ("Hollywood Squares" and "Quantum Leap"), on recordings (Tom Chapin's album "This Pretty Planet"), and even in commercials (a 1994 Honda Prelude ad).

In 2009, she was in the 55th anniversary issue of Playboy magazine as Number 13 in the list of the 55 most important people in sex from the previous 55 years. There was even a one-act play about her life, "Becoming Dr. Ruth," that ran for a few months Off Broadway in 2013 and in 2021 was featured at  Washington D.C.'s Theater J .    

And she kept writing. Numbers 43, 44 and 45 were published in 2018: "Stay or Go: Dr. Ruth's Rules For Real Relationships" with Pierre A. Lehu, in January; "Roller Coaster Grandma" with Lehu in February; and "From You to Two" with Lehu in June.

One of her most recent books is  "Heavenly Sex: Sexuality and the Jewish Tradition,"  published in paperback in 2020 with Jonathan Mark as a co-author.

At heart, Westheimer was a teacher: She taught at Lehman College, Brooklyn College, Adelphi University, Columbia University and even West Point. In April 2018, she was in her third year teaching at Columbia University Teachers College, where she got her teaching doctorate in 1970.

Longtime associate Maurice Tunick, a vice president at SiriusXM Satellite Radio in New York, worked on Westheimer's "Sexually Speaking" show in 1980. “I like to say I knew her before she was Dr. Ruth,” he said in the 2013 interview with USA TODAY.

“‘Approachable’ is a great word for her,” he said. “She’ll be remembered for her ability to communicate with people.”

Dr. Ruth's childhood, background as a sniper

Westheimer became famous talking about sex but her background, though less known, is also noteworthy. Born in Germany as Karola Ruth Siegel, she was sent in 1939 at age 10 by her family to an orphanage in Switzerland, where other Jewish children were sent to escape the Nazi regime.

At 16, she moved to Palestine, where she was trained as a sniper in the Haganah, the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces. She was wounded in the 1948 War of Independence and after recovering, moved to Paris, where she studied psychology at the Sorbonne. 

Her son,  Joel Westheimer, a professor of education at the University of Ottawa  in Canada, attributes his mother’s success to hitting on a topic that no one else was discussing at the time.

“She was a pioneer in that way. She did it in a way that was not threatening to anyone. It probably helped that she had a German accent and wasn’t a 23-year-old," he said.

"The combination of her accent and her size and the way she talked about things let people take their guard down,” he added. “She’s really smart and the answers she gave were both common-sense and insightful. They were funny, but they were always serious at the same time.”

Her daughter, Miriam Westheimer, who works  in international education in New York , says her mother’s attitude was always based on the here-and-now.

“You don’t know what tomorrow brings, so make every moment worthwhile,” she says of her mother’s credo.

Contributing: Amanda Lee Myers , Mike Snider and, Patrick Ryan 

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The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are an international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. This evening, chaired by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi, will feature three talks:

- Patricia Alessandrini (Stanford) on "Ada's Song: Artistic Research in Robotics from a (Cyber)Feminist Perspective"

- Rohini Devasher (Media Artist live from India) on "Between Wonder and the Strange"

- Joon Park (Stanford) on "Smallville: Illustrating Our Lives with Generative Agents"

- Richard Lowenberg (Artist and Eco-cultural Activist) on "Telluride 2024 - The Nature of Information"

Patricia Alessandrini teaches at Stanford CCRMA. She is a composer/sound artist, educator and researcher actively engaging with notions of canonicity, representation, interpretation, perception and memory, often in a social and political context, through work which is for the most part interactive and/or intermedial. She will speak about her work as a composer/sound artist, from the design of interfaces and instruments for inclusive performance to the development of the Piano Machine, a system that mechanically excites piano strings using Machine Learning processes in response to live performance. She will also discuss her new project employing soft robotics in a cyberfeminist, futurist installation and performance.

Rohini Devasher, based in India, is a media artist who works with video, painting, printmaking, drawing and installation. Her expansive projects create worlds that emerge from deep research and scientific explorations, illuminating and complicating the subjects at hand.  Devasher will share work that maps the complexities of ecology, cosmology, and technology viewed through the twin lenses of wonder and the strange. The theoretical grounding of her work draws from the history of science, astronomy, philosophy and speculative fiction.

Joon Sung Park is a computer science PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing groups at Stanford University. His work introduces the concept of, and the techniques for creating generative agents -- computational agents that simulate human behavior. His work has won best paper awards at UIST and CHI, as well as multiple best paper nominations and other paper awards.

Richard Lowenberg has spent over 50 years creatively integrating understandings and grounded involvements in non-profit .org development, architecture, environmental/ecosystems design, interspecies communication, rural community + networked society planning, performance, new media and eco-arts/sciences practices. He has dedicated his creative life to realization of works exploring and setting examples for an ‘ecology of the information environment’ and resulting opportunities for growing a vibrant cultural economy.

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The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous), chaired by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi, are an international program of evening gatherings that bring together artists, scientists, inventors and scholars in a variety of disciplines for informal presentations and conversation with an audience.

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Vandals behead a controversial sculpture of Mary giving birth to Jesus in an Austrian cathedral

FILE - A Amazonian indigenous statue of a pregnant woman is seen as participants in the Amazon synod, attend the opening prayer in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Vandals have beheaded a sculpture featuring the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus that had been exhibited in the cathedral in the Austrian city of Linz and drawn criticism from some traditionalist Catholics who said it was blasphemous. The identity of the vandals wasn’t known. But Alexander Tschugguel, an Austrian traditionalist Catholic responsible for the so-called “Pachamama” act of vandalism during the Vatican’s 2019 Amazon synod, said in a social media post Tuesday July 2, 2024 that he had been contacted by those responsible. Tschugguel became a hero to traditionalists in 2019, when he snuck into a Vatican-area church, stole Amazonian indigenous statues of pregnant women, and threw them into the Tiber River in a videotaped act that was quickly shared online. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vandals have beheaded a sculpture featuring the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus that had been exhibited in the cathedral in the Austrian city of Linz and drawn criticism from some Catholics who said it was blasphemous.

The sculpture had been on view at the St. Mary Cathedral, Austria’s largest, as part of an art installation project on women’s roles, family images and gender equality, the Linz diocese said in a statement. It added that the incident, which occurred on Monday, had been reported to police.

The identity of the vandals wasn’t known. But Alexander Tschugguel, an Austrian traditionalist Catholic responsible for the so-called “Pachamama” act of vandalism during the Vatican’s 2019 Amazon synod, said in a social media post Tuesday that he had been contacted by those responsible.

Tschugguel praised the “Hero of Linz” and posted what he said was a statement from the anonymous vandal explaining the motivation. The statement implied that the person’s emails and calls to the diocese to complain about the sculpture had been ignored.

“Therefore, in view of this abominable and blasphemous caricature, urgent and decisive action was required,” the statement said, adding that the beheading was the fastest way to disfigure the sculpture so it no longer resembled Mary.

The episcopal vicar for education, art and culture in the Linz diocese, the Rev. Johann Hintermaier, condemned the beheading of the statue.

“We were aware that we were also provoking debate with this installation. If we have hurt people’s religious feelings, we are sorry, but I strongly condemn this violent act of destruction, the refusal to engage in dialog and the attack on the freedom of art,” the diocesan statement quoted him as saying.

The sculpture was on a pedestal in the middle of the room inside the cathedral, showing Mary sitting on a rock and giving birth. The diocese said it referred to the nativity scene in the cathedral, which is also known as the Mariendom.

The artist who created the “crowning” sculpture, Esther Strauss, also condemned the destruction, according to the Linz diocese statement.

“Most portraits of the Virgin Mary were made by men and have therefore often served patriarchal interests,” she said, adding that in her sculpture “Mary gets her body back.”

“Whoever removed the head from the sculpture was very brutal,” Strauss said. “For me, this violence is an expression of the fact that there are still people who question women’s right to their own bodies. We have to take a very firm stance against this.”

Tschugguel became a hero to traditionalists in 2019, when he snuck into a Vatican-area church, stole Amazonian indigenous statues of pregnant women, and threw them into the Tiber River in a videotaped act that was quickly shared online.

Amazonian delegates to Pope Francis’ synod, or meeting, had brought the statues with them to Rome and had displayed them in the Vatican gardens during an opening prayer for the meeting, which was discussing how the Catholic Church could better serve the indigenous faithful in the region. Critics complained that the display of “pagan” idols in the Vatican was sacrilegious.

The episode became known as the Pachamama incident, named for the types of fertility statues involved, and was visceral evidence of the lengths to which conservative and traditionalist Catholics were willing to go to vent their opposition to history’s first Latin American pope.

In the end, Italian police divers recovered the statues from the river and returned them to the Vatican. Francis apologized to the Amazonian delegates , and the statues were displayed in the closing sessions of the synod.

Associated Press writer Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin contributed to this report.

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Entertainment, on anniversary of frida kahlo's death, her art's spirituality keeps fans engaged around the globe.

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FILE - An art handler adjusts Frida Kahlo's Diego and I on display at Sotheby's auction house during a press preview for the Modern Evening auction, Nov. 5, 2021, in New York. The 70th anniversary of Kahlos death is on July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

MEXICO CITY – Frida Kahlo had no religious affiliation. Why, then, did the Mexican artist depict several religious symbols in the paintings she produced until her death on July 13, 1954?

“Frida conveyed the power of each individual,” said art researcher and curator Ximena Jordán. “Her self-portraits are a reminder of the ways in which we can exercise the power that life — or God, so to speak — has given us.”

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Born in 1907 in Mexico City — where her “Blue House” remains open for visitors — Kahlo used her own personal experiences as a source of inspiration for her art.

The bus accident that she survived in 1925, the physical pain that she endured as a consequence and the tormented relationship with her husband — Mexican muralist Diego Rivera — all nurtured her creativity.

Her take on life and spirituality sparked a connection between her paintings and her viewers, many of whom remain passionate admirers of her work on the 70th anniversary of her death.

One of the keys to understand how she achieved this, Jordán said, lies in her self-portraits.

Kahlo appears in many of her paintings, but she did not portray herself in a naturalistic way. Instead, Jordán said, she “re-created” herself through symbols that convey the profoundness of interior human life.

“Diego and I” is the perfect example. Painted by Kahlo in 1949, it sold for $34.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York in 2021, an auction record for a work by a Latin American artist.

In the painting, Kahlo’s expression is serene despite the tears falling from her eyes. Rivera’s face is on her forehead. And, in the center of his head, a third eye, which signifies the unconscious mind in Hinduism and enlightenment in Buddhism.

According to some interpretations, the painting represents the pain that Rivera inflicted on her. Jordán, though, offers another reading.

“The religiosity of the painting is not in the fact that Frida carries Diego in her thoughts,” Jordán said. “The fact that she bears him as a third eye, and Diego has a third eye of his own, reflects that his affection for her made her transcend to another dimension of existence.”

In other words, Kahlo portrayed how individuals connect to their spirituality through love.

“I connected with her heart and writings,” said Cris Melo, a 58-year-old American artist whose favorite Kahlo work is the aforementioned painting. “We had the same love language, and similar history of heartache.”

Melo, unlike Kahlo, did not go through a bus accident that punctured her pelvis and led to a life of surgeries, abortions and a leg amputation.

Still, Melo said, she experienced years of physical pain. And in the midst of that suffering, while fearing that resilience might slip away, she said to herself: “If Frida could handle this, so can I.”

Even if most of her artwork depicts her emotional and physical suffering, Kahlo’s paintings do not provoke sadness or helplessness. On the contrary, she is seen as a woman — not only an artist — strong enough to deal with a broken body that never weakened her spirit.

“Frida inspires many people to be consistent,” said Amni, a London-based Spanish artist who asked to be identified only by his artistic name and reinterprets Kahlo’s works with artificial intelligence.

“Other artists have inspired me, but Frida has been the most special because of everything she endured,” Amni said. “Despite her suffering, the heartbreak, the accident, she was always firm.”

For him, as for Melo, Kahlo’s most memorable works are those in which Rivera appears on her forehead, like a third eye.

According to Jordán, Kahlo touched a chord that most artists of her time did not. Influenced by revolutionary nationalism, muralists like Rivera or David Alfaro Siqueiros kept a distance from their viewers though intellectual works that mainly focused on their social, historic and political views.

Kahlo, on the other hand, was not shy in portraying her physical disabilities, her bisexuality and the diversity of beliefs that weigh on the human spirit.

In “The Wounded Deer,” for example, she is transformed into an animal whose body bleeds after being shot by arrows. And just like a martyr in Catholic imagery, Kahlo’s expression remains composed.

Aligned with a Marxist ideology, Kahlo thought that the Catholic Church was emasculating, meddlesome and racist. But in spite of her disdain toward the institution, she understood that devotion leads to a beneficial spiritual path.

A decade after her accident, probably overwhelmed by the fact that she survived, Kahlo started collecting votive offerings — tiny paintings that Catholics offer as gratitude for miracles. In her Blue House, the 473 votive offerings are still preserved.

Kahlo might have regarded her survival as a miracle, Jordán said. “The only difference is that she, due to her context, did not attribute that miracle to a deity of Catholic origin, but to the generosity of life.”

Perhaps that’s why, in her final days, she decided to paint a series of vibrant, colorful watermelons that would be her last work.

In that canvas, over a split watermelon lying underneath a clouded sky, she wrote: “Vida la vida,” or “Long live life.”

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'It's Tourist Hunting Season': The Street Art That's Seething About Mass Tourism

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The writing is on the wall across Spain.

Residents who are becoming increasingly frustrated with the negative impact of mass tourism on their daily lives ― including but certainly not limited to higher rents and real estate prices ― are taking to the streets to voice their fury.

Demonstrations have this year mushroomed across the second most-visited country in the world ― from Barcelona with its water-gun-touting activists in the north to Malaga in the south, from the Canary Islands archipelago off the coast of northwestern Africa to the Balearic Islands of Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca in the Mediterranean Sea.

Some protesters, however, have also taken to leaving more permanent reminders of their anger in the form of graffiti, street art and sticker campaigns.

“It’s Tourist Hunting Season,” “Tourists Go Home” and “Fuck Airbnb” are among the scathing messages that have been photographed daubed on walls or printed on stickers across the two biggest cities — the capital Madrid and Barcelona — this year alone.

In Malaga, stickers bearing anti-tourist phrases ― such as “go fucking home” and “this used to be my home” ― were earlier this year placed around tourism areas in which families once lived.

Meanwhile, someone on the island of Mallorca last summer installed fake signs in English that warned tourists of “dangerous jellyfish” and “falling rocks.” But the small print in Catalan revealed there wasn’t actually any danger and that it was just mass tourism they wanted to prevent.

Here’s a look at some of the anti-tourism protest art in Spain from this year and before:

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