Get Outside for an Artistic Vibe

Many of history’s most gifted and creative artistic minds have found their muse within nature. Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau spent countless hours following the sirens song that they heard blowing through the trees and skating across the pond and translating it into some of the most influential poetry ever comprised.

Painters like Monet and Van Gogh also spent time immersed in nature and subsequently captured its beauty. As their creativity expanded, nature gave them a place to explore their ideas and create.

So if nature is so influential in the lives of great creators and artists, why not afford our children the same privilege? Outdoor art studios allow children a place to learn and grow creatively. Scientists have long sung the emotional and physical benefits of playing outside but creating outside comes with added benefits.

Private boarding schools often offer students these types of artistic environments in which to explore, create and develop. 

The Benefits

Private boarding schools are privately funded and thus the school has the means to create an art environment that fosters creativity and artistic investigation.  At many reputable boarding schools across the country there are art studios that not only come equipped with artistic tools but a dual indoor and outdoor studio.

These studios allow students who are serious about art to have experiences both indoors and outdoors. Cutting creative minds off from the natural worlds can stunt growth and curiosity. Utilizing the fresh air and change of scenery and allowing it to spark an idea is essential.

Having a place, whether inside or outside, to bring that idea to fruition is the next step. The dual studios created by private boarding schools enable a seamless transition between creativity and creation.

Private boarding schools hold students to high academic standards and while this is an innumerably beneficial goal, many studies have praised the positive influence art or nature in a school setting.  Allowing students a space to feely create allows greater academic success.

The open-air studio environment provided by many private boarding schools gives students all of the resources needed to excel academically and artistically.

The coupling of art and an open-air studio also has benefits in the realm of mental health. The stresses of life can find all students in both private boarding schools and public high schools. Without a positive outlet these students suffer greatly. The mental and physical toll stress can take on the body is greatly alleviated in a dual art studio.

These art studios that allow students a free reign of creativity in the studio and outdoors give struggling students a healthy place to alleviate their stress. In a creative setting students can begin to not only cope but overcome.

 Maddison Driggs is an academic writer for Fusion 360, an SEO and content marketing agency. Information provided by Wasatch Academy. Follow on Twitter.