Why Buy a Ticket to Art Rocks?

Art Rocks Press Release

Art Rocks is Saturday, October 3 at 7:00 PM at the Benton County Fair Grounds Arena.

Art Rocks is a benefit concert that benefits NWACC Art Club programming and the Benton County School of the Arts High School. The school's mission is to "to promote high achievement and academic success by providing a rigorous and challenging curriculum and to educate and encourage talented visual and performing artists to achieve the high artistic standards necessary to become leaders in their respective fields." From the school's website:

"The Benton County School of the Arts High School is located at 506 West Poplar near downtown Rogers, Arkansas. Our Performing Arts Center is extraordinary and is used by our theatre, choir, orchestra, and dance students. Our buildings and students are monitored by a state-of-the-art security system. Staff and students wear identification badges that give them access to buildings and classrooms. The average class size is fifteen students.

Campus staff consists of one administrator, one educational assistant/business manager, fifteen teachers, a cafeteria manager, and a building/grounds supervisor.

The BCSAHS Parent-Teacher Guild is very active in the daily life of our school. This dedicated group has helped with fund-raising, performances, teacher appreciation, school work days and have served as our ambassadors in the community."

Did you know?

Young people who consistently participate in comprehensive, sequential, and rigorous arts programs are: 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance 4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem* * Living the Arts through Language + Learning: A Report on Community-based Youth Organizations, Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Americans for the Arts Monograph, November 1998. Did you also know....

that most of the NWACC Art Club's programming is free to the public? Over the last two years, the following events were free:

• Know the Law: Copyright/Intellectual Property Rights presentation by Tim Cornelius.
  
• Chalk it Up to Art! Sidewalk Chalk Event
• Susana Jones Artist Talk and Slideshow
• Strangers & Not So Strange Photography Exhibit of Craig Earl Nelson's Photography with Artist Talk
• The Face: Jesus in Art, documentary film showing

This semester, the free events include an artist talk by painter Robert Andes, a reprisal of our sidewalk chalk event and a documentary film showing of How to Draw a Bunny, a film about artist Ray Johnson. These things are free to the public but not free to the Club. By buying a ticket to Art Rocks, you help us continue our free programming and advocacy for art on NWACC's campus. In addition, you help club members with limited funds go on an annual field trip to a center of artistic production. This last spring, 10 members were able to go to Chicago for very limited cost due to our fundraising endeavors last year. I hope you will buy a ticket to Art Rocks!

Don't forget we have a great lineup of bands with something for everyone! There's a solo guitarist (Taylor Clayborne), an Indie rock band (Disasterful), a band that plays cover rock tunes from several generations (Sucker Punch Railroad), and an original rock band (The Great Scotts).