THE PHILOSOPHIES BEHIND SPARK STUDIO

The Importance of Creativity

The expression of creativity is fundamental to all healthy human development – it has a profound influence on personal functioning and wellbeing.

Working with creative process and media provides a means of effective and purposeful communication.

The making of art presents to the ‘artist’ a vocabulary and way of expression that can transcend verbal and cognitive communication.

Creative methodologies assist people to integrate and instigate new learning.

Creativity has people access meaning in their life and provides a way to authentically and spontaneously convey this experience.

Creativity develops skills and abilities that are essential in social and workplace functioning.

Creative endeavor equips people to be productive, and positive contributors within their community.

THESE PRINCIPLES APPLY TO ALL PEOPLE

Creative Expression in Visual Arts Enables People with Disabilities to:

• have freedom and spontaneity in expression
• make purposeful, self directed choices
• have a means of expression that is non-verbal and beyond the cognitive
• communicate their experience and ‘tell their story’
• be stimulated and inspired by sensory processes and mediums
• develop their abilities and competencies in the genre of ‘naïve art’
• enjoy and learn from the social interaction of creative activities
• develop personal and creative skills that productively contribute within the community

All people have the right to freedom of creative expression