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EMILY LOVEJOY
Emily Lovejoy

Art is something that humans have developed to express their creative motives, desires, interests and instincts. This worldly concept is found in every culture. The admiration of art is universal with much appreciation, ideas, and feelings. Integration into the industry of art education is essential for ever-growing imagination and creative expression. Without art in our culture and schools the surrounding world would be very dull. Having no art education and expansion thereof would mean that a huge part of the human experience would be left out.
My main motive for wishing to obtain a career in art education is to enable myself to help shape the minds of art aficionados. I’m an artist myself and truly believe that everyone must have the opportunity to take part in art classes. By sharing my knowledge concerning art, there will be engagements with peers pertaining to the production of visual form. The continuance of teaching techniques of aesthetic enjoyment is very important within contemporary society.
Teaching art is extremely vital for being taught within the curriculum of today’s society. Art teaches that examining the small detail of things can have great effects when being able to criticize the material. From critiques, numerous perspectives can be commemorated. The arts teach that problems can have more than one explanation, and that questions can have more than one response. The arts help people to articulate what can’t be said. It teaches to help make good judgments about qualitative relationships, unlike most of the other classes that are taught in school in which answers are always correct and exact. From other resources, one is not able to encounter the same kind of experience.
Art is a language of visual pieces that everyone must learn to comprehend. A person who isn’t able to interpret visual images is not completely educated. The importance of art education is to develop language and critiquing skills about images. Not only is it vital to learn the language of art, but to learn that art is a means of physical exertion as well. In art education, pupils learn the elation of work. Work created to the best of one’s ability, for its own sake, and for the gratification of a job well completed. The thought of personal achievement and the idea of respectable work is a fraught need in our society. Art is able to articulate the most important objectives of one’s strength of mind. When viewing art, it creates an experience of emotion because the ideas formed are natural intuition.
As an art educator, being able to create the consciousness of art and aesthetics to people of all ages is important and satisfying. Arts, as part of society’s fundamental education is just as important as Science, Math, English, etc., because it present everywhere in our culture. One literally sees art all around every place one goes. Art education is absolutely vital for my generation and generations to come. I’m motivated to promote the experience.

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