The Benefits of Attending Art Classes

The rewards that learning art can bring to students

Whether you are an aspiring artist, art student or a parent wishing to provide your child with a beautiful, creative aspect to learning, attending art classes may be one way for you to ensure you get off to a sound start.

Whether you are an aspiring artist, art student or a parent wanting to provide your child with a positive, creative way of learning, consider art classes. It not only ensures that you get you off to a sound start. But what most aren’t aware of is that we proved it has immeasurable brain developing advantages.

Research Papers

There is a tonne of evidence to support the incredible benefits of taking art lessons for brain development. Here are some scientific studies that clearly and unequivocally concur that the brain improves in areas besides art. 

Taking part in creative training, whether it be in performing, visual, or music arts, broadens our overall range of abilities. The most extensive qualitative and quantitative study ever conducted, which involved 25,000 high school students, I will cover in the next chapter.
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Forging Old & Young Minds

There is an immense advantage for old and young minds of enrolling in art classes. We find the results revealed in a study titled “Champions of Change: The Impact of The Arts on Learning. Carried out in coordination with the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, Washington, DC, and the Arts Education Partnership, Washington, DC.

The results will considerably encourage everyone considering enrolling in an art school. The study, which analysed data on 25,000 students, concluded that children who had high levels of art exposure and participation: “...outperform “arts-poor” students by virtually every measure”.
While this finding may not mean much. The detailed analysis of the researchers is what conclusive. It proved that enrolling kids into children’s art classes at a young age may be the best gift that any child can get. It almost logically follows that the benefits are, for every age, healthful.

It turns out that children who have significant exposure to the arts perform remarkably better than their peers. Particularly when attending art classes. They do better in art unrelated subjects like reading, mathematics and problem solving. More significantly, however, was the finding that art classes had a comparatively higher positive impact on children from less-affluent backgrounds than it did for kids from higher-income families.
Undoubtedly, attending art classes provides a much brighter future for students who aren’t being exposed to the arts at a tender age.

Grounded In Science

Research Papers clearly show with a rather loud voice agreeing that art involvement has tremendous benefits.

  • It stimulates both sides of the brain, which might not otherwise be exercised through other learning opportunities
  • It engages the mind, body and hearts, giving a meaningful experience grounded in reality
  • Collective learning experiences, like painting in a group, that encourages students to engage with one another.  It stimulates their social interaction skills.

While the study looked at a database containing extensive amounts of data on students from 8th to 12th grades, the conclusions drawn aren’t just statistical. We ground them in extensive knowledge of human and social sciences.
By age 10, children often lose their enthusiasm for the arts, as they discover that their drawings or paintings are not as realistic as they thought them to be. Embarrassment frequently plays a part. They divert to other activities that challenge and engage their minds. So, if you are a parent or guardian looking to “level the playing field” in favour of your child, enrol them in a range of children’s art classes. The best age is seven to eight years of age to assist your child’s future.

Other Advantages Attending Art Classes

The authors of the study found that engagement in drawing classes or other forms of artistic learning provides us with a learning experience like no others:


  • The prime benefit of art classes is to get you the best possible start for learning how to draw and paint.
  • To come to a place that inspires brings comfort, motivates and allows you to mingle with people who have the same interest as you. 
  • Because art teachers have knowledge that the students lack. Being trained by an art teacher who has broad skills, such as teaching traditional art, commercial illustration, graphic design, art critique and classical drawing and painting skills brings a comprehensive knowledge base to the table. Even minor information can help students to avoid a lot of problems.
  • It helps to follow projects through. Most people give up quickly when they encounter difficulties and do a U-turn by running to something less demanding. Within an art class, you will be strengthened and supported to conquer irritations. 
  • It speeds up time of learning and improvements are quickly established. 
  • You can work in an environment that is most suitable for art, with all the equipment you need, unlike home where many people have to put things away and clean up immediately. 
  • For greater encouragement

Even while I find the research data on art education alone already astonishing, it is the unfathomably high percentage of skill improvements that took me by surprise. The arts play a vital role today in the healthy upbringing of our children. We found the same results in studies that included all other ages, in particular our elders.