The Importance Of Art Funding

Art Funding Should taxpayer dollars go to funding arts programs that may not be able to support themselves otherwise? Art programs all across the nation are being cut due to budget cuts. Preteens and teenagers are losing their way of self-expression and kids are losing the chance to practice their motor skills and cognitive thinking early. For that reason, taxpayer dollars should go to funding arts programs.

For preteens, and teenagers who don’t know how to express themselves through words, it is often easier to do so through painting. By using color, or lines they can express their emotions. Red could be anger or love, blue could be calm or sad, black could be death or power, etc. Jagged lines could express anger or stress, and curved lines could be happy or calm. By expressing themselves through their art rather than using words, it could help cope with stress better by not adding to it by not trying to figure out what they have to say. …show more content…
Learning to properly grasp a marker, paintbrush, or to cut in straight lines, or cutting out things such as a picture of a rose without accidentally cutting a pedal off helps kids with their motor skills. It can help with cognitive development by learning cause and effect, for example, blue and yellow paint mixed together makes green, red and green makes brown, the right amount of black added to white paint makes gray etc. By learning to describe their artwork or to write creatively helps kids to develop their language skills. Lastly, the arts can help with emotional development by learning to take criticism, to put themselves out there by acting in plays or displaying their artwork for people to