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At Kent State University, we believe in the power of teachers to be agents of structural and social change, transforming and improving lives. America’s schools need teachers who help develop socially responsible citizens and an educated workforce equipped with life skills. We believe the visual arts do this most effectively because they are a study of life through visual objects, as well as a natural integrator of ideas.

A visual arts education provides academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity. Art education also leads to increased self-confidence and self-understanding, enhanced communication skills, and improved cognition.1 In a nationwide public opinion survey conducted by Americans for the Arts in …