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I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

If it's taught well, art really is important to kids early on. It helps children develop language and allows them to see themselves in a way that isn't right or wrong, because if they draw an animal with five legs instead of four, nobody's criticizing them for it.

There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.