Hi there! My name is Jennifer Lake, and I am a sophomore pursuing a fine arts degree. With that being said, I have always been a visual learner and creative thinker. For the most part, math and science concepts have always been a struggle for me to enjoy fully, due to my lack of analytic comprehension. Additionally, I feel like art and science have the potential to be intertwined, which has been a motivation in my studies.
Firstly, I enrolled in this course to fulfill one of my GN requirements. Being a non-science major, this class really appealed to me because even though I don’t always have an understanding of scientific concepts, I do have an interest to learn new things and become a “better consumer of science.” I look forward to having a consideration for science on a more basic level. Secondly, with science having such a large role in today’s society, I find that it is important to have a literacy in a subject that effects each and every one of us on a daily basis.
I am not planning to be a science major because of a bad experience with it in the past; in fact I have enjoyed most of the science classes I have taken! I decided to pursue art because it is an area in which I truly feel at home. I value the qualitative aspects of my artistic experiences, and I have found that art and its processes have a place in many areas of our lives. Throughout the course of our history, the arts have served a multitude of purposes, ranging from aesthetic, educational, social and vocational applications. I believe it is important for people to realize that artistic experience and development can be seen as a product of intelligence, much like that of math or science.
I’ve added a link to an article that I find interesting and supportive of art in today’s society, check it out!
http://www.edutopia.org/arts-music-curriculum-child-development
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I was looking through the blogs and just realized we have class together! It doesn’t surprise me that your blog is about art and you have always been amazing at it! The most art related link I have is my Pinterest page so here’s my link!
http://pinterest.com/astackpole10/boards/
Hi, Jennifer. Thank you for your post. I’m also interested in understanding the arts and sciences. I hope you enjoy this brief video on an artist’s work with paper: http://vimeo.com/54967505.
Thanks for the link, Kelly! I enjoyed reading about the importance of art from a scientific perspective. I totally agree with your thoughts, because the arts do have a positive effect on self-esteem, in addition to encouraging abstract thought processes. I would love to continue the theme of the relationship between art and science, I think it could grow to be an interesting topic in the coming weeks!
Hi Jennifer! I totally respect anyone that has any sort of talent and passion in the arts. This is probably because I have about zero talent in the artistic department, sort of like my talent in science. I actually found your post very insightful and it actually made me think a lot. Andrew has gone on repeatedly so far in just two classes about how science can tie into everything, and about how everything can be related back to it with critical thinking. The arts absolutely serve a purpose in shaping an individual’s self-worth, self-esteem, way of problem solving and thinking abstractly. I found an article about why scientists should care about the arts more or how science is actually influenced by art if you want to check it out here: http://blogs.plos.org/attheinterface/2012/11/22/why-scientists-should-care-about-art/
Maybe some of your blog posts could be about how science and art tie together. I would so love to read some of them!