Art education refers to learning, instruction and programming based upon the visual and tangible arts. Art education includes performing arts like dance, music, theater, and visual arts like drawing, painting, sculpture, and design works.

  Role of art education

Arts are incredibly important for all schools and all types of students to think and act creatively as well as innovative way for student to problem solve. ... They include music, theatre, sculpture, drawing, creative writing, design, woodshop, and many, many more courses. 

In this context, the arts can include Performing arts education (dance, drama, music), literature and poetry, storytelling, Visual arts education in film, craft, design, digital arts, media and photography. 

 While these are two areas of co-dependency, arts education refers usually to mainstream teaching and learning of the arts as part of general education, while arts-in-education refers mostly to interventions from the realm of the arts into the education system, by means of artists of all disciplines visiting schools or ... 

Art is important because it encompasses all the developmental domains in child development. Art lends itself to physical development and the enhancement of fine and gross motor skills. ... Children learn about themselves and others through art activities. It really helps them build self-esteem.