There is a group of artists in town here and they represent several arts. But as far as I know, they don't seem to recognize they lack any representative of the verbal arts. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays - all have a place in our lives. Beyond that, most humans begin to use spoken words about age 1. We have an internal impulse to say "Momma" or "doggie" or whatever.
As we age, we learn more words and become sensitive to a wider range of internal feelings and external observations. We also develop desires and we use words to express our desires, as in Can I have a fried egg? It is easy to accept the progress from the wails of outrage of a newborn expressing displeasure to being ejected from a pleasant womb through a narrow and squeezing passage to the high school senior debating the need for lower taxes as "normal". In a way, that certainly is normal but it is still the acquisition of an art, the art of choosing and using words.
Many descriptions of humans focus on their use of spoken language as an important part of being human. Much of the early education that kids get in schools is about adding an ability to write, to make marks that can later be decoded by future generations or others. So, yes, the vast majority of us are artists engaged in the complex art of using words spoken and written.
