Creativity can be best described as a person’s  ability to express their inner thoughts  through art or music, which has been proven vital to brain growth and development. But is that statement really true, can music or art improve the academic success rate of a student?

There have been many tests and studies to determine this very answer and scientists have stated that music affects both the left and right hemisphere of the brain.

It helps with the left section of the brain because in Art there are many problem solving skills that you  will face including Rhythm, Symmetry, and the overall conflict and pressure of getting your masterpiece just right.

It affects the right hemisphere of the brain as well because the right section is attributed to creativity and imagination, which are both crucial values praised in the art field. If there was no imagination and creativity involved in art it would be painfully boring and no one would pay much attention to it.

The only way to find out if these tests are accurate was to go out and ask people to find out if the arts are the real reason they are doing well in school. The arts could either have a positive of negative influence on a person’s life and their successes in life.

Katherine Z. (11) very passionately answered that she has being “playing the violin for 10 years and is now learning how to play the ukulele”. Ziebol is in an Orchestra program both in school and out of school and absolutely loves everything about it.  Once she struck that bow to the string, it was love at first sight. “It relaxes me and it’s fun to play”.

However she stated that the most challenging thing about being in Orchestra is “learning rhythm and technique”. She said that that aspect of music challenges her the most but she also believes that it has helped her through her challenging classes because she proudly stated she is a B student who balances both the Arts and school. She did admit that music “takes top priority over school and her grades are affected because of that”.

Mikayla H.(11) states that she “was in band and played the clarinet and still plays the piano”. Even though she did quit band because of schedule complications, Hed still takes plenty of art classes to satisfy her creative spunk. She takes great pride in every piece of artwork she creates in her art classes and to her, art is a fun way to let out your inner feelings without saying anything. Hed’s grades have positively reflected that statement that being in the arts helps you do better academically scenes she considers her an A student with a 4.0 GPA.

Katrina T.(11) proudly stated that she “played the alto saxophone but also had to quit because of the demanding schedule requirements a music class took”. But like Mikayla, she also takes artistic classes to boost her bottled up imagination. Katrina also lives up to the observation by the scientists as being a straight A student with a 4.0 GPA.

Fifi L. (9) broke the trend discovered by scientists, by being a 3.67 G.P.A.  student and maintaining herself as a lower A average student. She stated that she “played trombone in band in 7th grade” but never really took an interest in it. Fifi clearly expressed that “her grades were actually worse in middle school”. Even though she quit and isn’t currently taking an arts class, it doesn’t affect her grades whatsoever and the statement proven by scientists proves false when looking at her lifestyle because she finds herself doing better in school.