The Porter article was informational and very realistic. I thought this article was beautiful because it is a true story, all true stories are mesmerizing and give a different perspective or vibe to their readers. In life we do and don’t get to do what we want and some of us don’t even get to think about those decisions. When we as human beings get to make our own decisions this can influence people who don’t have a voice and then they can start making decisions for themselves. In the past we never got that choice to decide what clothes we wanted to wear or what language we wanted to speak which is diabolical since we had our own language from the beginning. This article just explained a more informational story on the Relocation Act and how it became our Native American History; This article was very empathetic too! 

Within this article PSYCH MED included statements about Art helping children's development. This statement, “As more ground was gained in the field of education and approaches used in child psychotherapy.” This is very important in a child's growth because they can develop some of the five senses we humans have. Touch and sight would be the two senses that can develop from child art therapy. I think it’s important to have those fields of education to support all children who use art to express themselves. Especially because children are sensitive and so important because they have their whole lives ahead of them, and many years to fulfill. 

The history of Art therapy is neverending. By this I mean, art therapy is past, present, future. Art therapy helps anyone and sometimes people don’t know they are using art as therapy. Art can take away stress or add to it but for those that let art take away stress is using art as therapy. While reading this short article my second favorite statement is, “Since prehistoric times, the arts have played crucial roles in human history, development, culture, and consciousness.”  Which is an understatement because art helped many humans develop since they were children and allowed them to express themselves in a way they could without using words. As children their drawings or artworks may be messy but it has a meaning for the child and only they can really express their work of art to you.  I think people should realize that sometimes children and people will not always express themselves through communication or words, but sometimes a weird shape or drawing can be a painting which does not need a specific color. 

Art’s history is beyond some researchers' knowledge because art is everything and anything. Today new artifacts from the past still begin to be found today or this year. I strongly agree with this article that today’s beauty standards are “a cultural construct that varies across time and space” It connects beauty and art to cultural construct. In my opinion cultural art is the most memorable because their art is expressing their culture. This article is explaining how art became everything and anything. Art history and future is not defined as art being a painting but being a craft made of beauty. 

This article was a history lesson and it really summed up how art came from culture and religion. I think art only came from religion and culture because we felt things towards what we were learning so we created art, when you start really believing something it puts this energy of creativity or movement into your brain or body. This quote is beautiful, “Artworks from the past communicate with us across centuries in a language that is much more mysterious and nuanced than one might first assume.” Art’s history is a cultural construct throughout any universe, emotion, feeling, etc. I agree with the statement, art is how people embrace their feelings and thoughts. Art may be the only outlet we get in life, art can also be the safe place we go to, to calm ourselves down.