Positive Benefits of Creating or Viewing Art Work
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 7:34PM To maintain my professional license, I have to take 8 continuing education credits per year. Today I took a course entitled Art Works: How the art you specify affects health, safety and well-being. I had high expectations for the course but did not learn anything that quilters and knitters do not already know!
Creating or viewing art can:
Reduce blood pressure
Elevate mood
Reduce perceived pain
We viewed photos of art and architecture for 8 hours. Only ONE piece of textile art showed up during that entire time! It was a lovely crazy quilt on a bed. I do like my textile art on the bed. And on the walls and on the table and on the floor and on my garments and on ......
Antique Lone Star Quilt (still a work in progress)
I'm off to elevate my mood and make some art!
positive benefits of art, textile art
Reader Comments (3)
Sounds like a trip to a quilt show would be in order for this particular class. =-)
Teri
Hi Suzan! It was good to see you at the Quilt Show online blog page. Thanks for stopping by my blog. I've been trying to track down something definitive that links art to health and am coming up zero, so I was glad to see that you took a class in it. Sounds like they need you to teach them what they're missing! :) Love the antique star you pictured. Reminds me of Mom, she made several of those.
Dawn
www.subversivestitch.blogspot.com
Thank you for showing your work in a way that does not take me to many minutes to find your work. Wiki is driving me crazy. Trying to live life you know deal with deaths and all that entails, living my own life and also trying kick out some work it was a pleasure to just click into your message and see what you are up too. Which by the way is really nice and I like your process. Bonnie