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IMPACT POINTS
Participation in arts activities increases tolerance. 12th graders who participate in the arts are 40% more likely to have friends from different racial groups and 29% less likely to feel that it is ok to make a racist remark.
Participatory arts projects celebrate local culture and heritage, making marginalized groups more visible and promoting positive community connections. In the UK, 40% of participants felt more positive about where they lived after participating in an arts activity.
Students excited by school stay in school. Low-income students who participate in the arts, both in school and after school have a drop out rate of just 4%--5x lower than their peers.
The arts make young adults more civically engaged. 78% of young adults who had arts-rich experiences were more likely to vote or participate in a political campaign.
Just looking at art improves your ability to think critically. Students from high-poverty schools, according to one study, experience an 18% effect-size improvement in critical thinking about art after a 1 hour tour of a museum.
Students who take four years of arts and music classes average almost 100 points better on their SAT scores than students with only a half-year or less.
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EXAMPLES OF PRACTICE
Wash Away Your Fears gives people the chance to make the intangible tangible through writing their fears on the ground with chalk and then symbolically washing them away with a bucket of water and a broom.
The STEMarts@PASEO Youth Program is an education initiative that selects seven Paseo artists whose work uniquely integrates science, technology and/or engineering in their art making process. Each artists give an on-hour demo/Q&A to a middle and/
The mission of The Alternative Art School founded by Nato Thompson is to provide an affordable program that provides a visionary faculty and intimate class sizes.
The Adler Planetarium's Community Design Labs are flexible spaces for guests to play, come up with and test ideas, create art, and reflect. Each Labs has its own theme: play, art, social science, and history. All Community Design Lab spaces are
SAY Sí strives to have each student artist become a productive and thoughtful citizen by enhancing their social, academic, cognitive, and vocational competencies and improving their self-esteem and self-identity.
READING LIST
The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth: Findings from Four Longitudinal Studies
ORGANIZATIONS
Creative Youth Development National Partnership
A partnership of organizations working in concert with the broader field to drive collective action in three strategic priorities to advance creative youth development.
National Art Education Association
The leading professional membership organization exclusively for visual arts educators advancing visual arts education to fulfill human potential and promote global understanding.
The Arts Impact Explorer was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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