Research about the positive effects of making art

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An article by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman explaining how America is entering a creativity crisis and how to develop child creativity.

https://immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/GENPRESS/N100710B.pdf

This article is specifically confined to the benefits of drawing for students.  It explains how drawing is a valuable way for students to learn visual mapping and be able to interact with and create tangible models of their ideas.

http://theconversation.com/why-is-teaching-kids-to-draw-not-a-more-important-part-of-the-curriculum-60379

An article detailing how children taking art classes have higher writing scores and tend to be more compassionate.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2019/02/12/study-arts-education-boosted-compassion-and-writing-scores/

Positive findings from the Drawing Gym, a place where employees at the Center for Healthy Minds may attend weekly to draw and express themselves free from judgment.

https://centerhealthyminds.org/join-the-movement/the-power-of-the-arts-new-pathways-to-well-being?utm_source=Center+for+Healthy+Minds&utm_campaign=06aef8c79b-Feb2019_NonDonorNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cce2315563-06aef8c79b-8672441

Literature review written myself on the effects of visual arts classes on high school students. This article contains an explanation of the history of US art classes, and a review of several studies on the effects of art on the brain and effects spesficially on high school students.  Although the research is somewhat inconclusive, it highlights the deficit of research on these subjects and the need to study the direct impacts of visual arts classes in schools.  https://paracosm.blog/blog/f/the-effects-of-visual-arts-classes-on-high-school-students