Making ART

Teaching artistic techniques to children is not an attitude that needs to have as its main goal the idea of creating a new artist. The idea of an education fomented in sensible vision is to form subjects that are able to look subjectively which is inherent in being human. Art is an important educational tool, because it seeks, beyond the individual tendencies, to mature the formation of taste, stimulate intelligence, and contribute in the formation of personality.

At Affinity Arts, art classes occur every day. These classes allow the capacity to mold, modify, restructure, and give significance to the more diverse materials in the attempt to conceive and disseminate feelings and ideas. It is important to consider that the arts promote the integral development of the individual: intellectually, emotionally, socially, perceptively, physically, aesthetically, and creatively. All of these aspects are developed through the actions of the students.
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For this reason, the teaching of the visual arts is an important means through which the students can understand themselves and others, understand their own reality, the expression of their feelings, emotions, desires, and projects, and their personal and social autonomy. The contact of the children with art happens in a playful and enjoyable form, provoking the desire to discover, manual flexibility, dexterity, creativity, production, and reflection. As they design, paint, make collages, manipulate, and mold clay, the children are liberating their emotions, their fantasies, and establishing a change in themselves, with others, and with the world