{"id":3052,"date":"2020-04-15T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T18:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/raise-a-glass-for-world-art-day\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T18:03:52","slug":"raise-a-glass-for-world-art-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/raise-a-glass-for-world-art-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise a Glass for World Art Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art is something worth celebrating! Not only is it fun to create, it&#8217;s actually good for you too. There&#8217;s no better time because today, April 15th,\u00a0 is World Art Day! The 22 year old holiday is also a celebration of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s birthday, so it&#8217;s the perfect time to put brush to canvas and get creative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though all of us find ourselves skipping our usual rounds this year, there&#8217;s still tons of fun ways to celebrate<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/commemorations\/worldartday\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Art Day<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> online. Virtual tours of famous art museums, online plays and concerts, and even painting tutorial videos are a great way to spend the day &#8212; of course, you&#8217;ll need to bring your own bottle to these events!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rest assured, creating and studying art is a very productive way to spend your down time. There are many benefits to gain, including an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtor.org\/2018\/07\/10\/benefits-of-art-therapy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">improved mood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, increased sense of creativity, a release for tensions and frustration, an improved ability to concentrate, more motivation, and higher self-esteem. It also certainly doesn&#8217;t hurt to have some lovely pieces for your home which you can be proud to look at and display.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For parents, it&#8217;s a great time to celebrate art at home with the kids. Learning about and creating art is great for them as well, offering a lot of the same <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wetheparents.org\/arts-education\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">benefits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It&#8217;s especially important in the classroom, and can contribute to future academic success, including an improvement in behavior in class, greater willingness to participate, and a greater likelihood of higher education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curious about the ways art can benefit your kids? <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wetheparents.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WeTheParents<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 has rounded up these 51 ways arts education is great for kids, as well as the scientific sources to back it up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Arts-Education-INFOGRAPHIC-71x300.png\" alt=\"Arts-Education-INFOGRAPHIC\" width=\"71\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art is something worth celebrating! Not only is it fun to create, it&#8217;s actually good for you too. There&#8217;s no better time because today, April 15th,\u00a0 is World Art Day! The 22 year old holiday is also a celebration of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s birthday, so it&#8217;s the perfect time to put brush to canvas and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/raise-a-glass-for-world-art-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raise a Glass for World Art Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art-inspiration"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}