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 Children's Art Exhibit
Few things in life are as innocent and colorful as art created by young children. The opening night reception featured refreshments and a chance to meet many of the young artists. The GCC Child Care Center cares for 75 preschool children of students and is highly acclaimed for its programs and activities.
For children, the process is more important than the product. The significance lies in what happens to them while they are creating.
Creativity
• begins at birth
• peaks at 4–4.5 years of age
• can be fostered or destroyed
• aids in the overall development of the child
Art
• a form of non-verbal communication
• a means of creative self-expression
• valuable in any form and at any stage
• dependent upon original ideas and reactioins
• has no obligation to factual representation
• easier to appreciate than to understand or explain
"The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period."
—Samuel Butler
"I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like children."
—Pablo Picasso
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