Why Art? Arts Advocacy

ART: The Fourth 'R'

Jason Ohler, President's Professor of Educational Technology and Distance Learning, University of Alaska, has written that, 

"In an era in which students design Web sites for homework assignments and integrate video, graphics, music and animation into school projects, art is fast becoming the new literacy for our times. The three Rs are now the 4 Rs: reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic and art."

"Those who do not create art for a living will use it, manage it, interpret it, or interact with it in ways that simply did not exist 10 years ago."

"Beyond a literacy that facilitates learning and communication across a wide spectrum of activities, art skills also translate into real-world jobs. Each of the thousands of channels of video, the thousands of CDs and DVDs, the millions of incipient Web sites-and the other new media not yet on imagination's horizon-will require musicians, choreographers, videographers, graphic designers, creative consultants, and many other "artistic" professionals."

http://www.jasonohler.com/projects/artnextr.cfm#english-Art_Fourth_R

http://www.naea-reston.org/tenlessons.html
"Ten Lessons the Arts Teach" by Eliot Eisner

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