You don’t really need a study to tell yourself that painting or doodling or spending an hour on some random craft project makes you feel better, most people already know that from their own experience. What is less obvious is why, and what actually better even means in a real, measurable sense. Turns out the […]

When most school’s budgets begin to get tight, art will automatically become the thing that can be easily gotten rid of.  It’s treated like an extra, nice to have but not really necessary thing. But that’s kind of backwards, because for young kids especially, art is doing a lot of important developmental work that nothing […]

Imagine a woman sitting down in a therapy session with a blank piece of paper and a box of pastels infront of her. She hasn’t drawn anything since like the fifth grade and honestly tells her therapist she can’t even draw a straight line. Twenty minutes later the page is covered in these jagged red […]