In recent history, the arts have been an underrepresented topic in schools across the country. Due to the constant threat of being cut from a school’s budget and the laying off of elective teachers in times of major financial constraint, arts education is now more critical than ever before. But arts, creativity, and other forms of expression are also important beyond the classroom.

When discussing creativity and innovation, you can adapt that for the workplace and encourage workers to explore new strategies and methods to solve problems. But that has to be cultivated through the organization’s culture.” There’s a lot of research that shows that if you look at the skills we need to be successful and happy in life, they map out more to the arts than many of the subjects that are taught in school.

It is also important to incorporate the arts into different facets of life, Arts integration is an approach to teaching and learning that creates an innovative and creative space enabling people to expand their thinking by making connections between subjects and helping them to become more engaged in their work.