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Why do the creative arts still matter in K-12 education, especially in an age of artificial intelligence? Illustrator Josh Nelson joins Jared Taylor and Lindsey Crosland to explore how visual art can shape memory, character, curiosity, and civic understanding. Josh shares how motivational artwork influenced him as a child and how that experience eventually led to a collaboration with Heritage Academy, creating portraits of historical figures tied to virtues and citizenship lessons. The conversation also examines the human side of creativity, the ethics of AI-generated art, and why students still need opportunities to draw, sculpt, design, and make things with their own hands. From historical storytelling to scientific discovery, this episode makes the case that art is not an educational extra. It is one of the ways people learn to see, think, remember, and create.
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