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Arts Olympiad
The Arts Olympiad is an international art competition for children ages 8 to 12 organized by International Child Art Foundation with one million participants from seventy countries. Each competition is four years long and it is held every four year. The competition includes the element of art and peace to encourage children around the world to use creativity and cooperation. History Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq, founder of the International Child Art Foundation, started the first Arts Olympiad competition in 1999 to address the issue which was coined decades earlier as the "fourth grade slump" in creativity. The researchers at the time suggested that the phenomenon is a result of a drop in creativity around the ages of nine as they start conforming to standardized testing and to please parents and teachers. The plan was to let children who were the winners of U.S. states and other countries to come together in a festival to let them work together and learn other cultures with the goal to move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Child Art Foundation
The International Child Art Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1997 to cultivate creativity and grow mutual empathy—valuable antidotes to many of the struggles our world faces today. ICAF serves American children as their national arts organization and the world's children as their global arts organization. History Inspired by E. Paul Torrance's longitudinal and cross-cultural studies of the "4th Grade Slump", Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq founded ICAF to help children overcome this slump so that it does not linger into adulthood. On its own, creativity is morally neutral—it can have positive or negative purposes or consequences. It is dangerous to think otherwise. For positive creativity, the development of empathy is essential. Consequently, ICAF fosters creativity and empathy as key attributes of successful learners and leaders. Since 1999 the ICAF has produced the Arts Olympiad#World Children's Festival, World Children's Festival every four years on The National Mall in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |