Arkansas Arts Academy is proud to announce that Dr. Ellen Watts will move into the role of District Director of Student Services. Dr. Watts has worked both as the District Special Education Director and Assistant Principal at the High School. This transition will provide additional support for our PreK-12th grade students and staff. Congratulations Dr. Watts!
Announcing... the 2026 Arkansas Arts Academy Celebrate the Arts Gala being held on June 6, 2026. This special event brings together business leaders, families, alumni, community partners, and champions of education to honor the extraordinary professional arts educators and instructional leaders who make Arkansas Arts Academy exceptional.
This year’s adults-only fundraiser will showcase the artistry and excellence of our professional staff through visual art exhibitions, live performances, storytelling, and a silent auction featuring staff artwork. The evening begins with a Happy Hour Reception from 4:00–6:00 PM at A3 Gallery in downtown Rogers, followed by the Main Event from 6:00–9:00 PM at the Arkansas Arts Academy Performing Arts Complex.
Most importantly, Celebrate the Arts 2026 launches a transformational vision for our future: the renovation and modernization of the Arkansas Arts Academy Performing Arts Center.
Buy your tickets and consider a sponsorship. It is an opportunity to invest in the next generation of artists, innovators, problem-solvers, and leaders.
https://www.artsk12.org/page/celebrate-the-arts-gala
This year’s adults-only fundraiser will showcase the artistry and excellence of our professional staff through visual art exhibitions, live performances, storytelling, and a silent auction featuring staff artwork. The evening begins with a Happy Hour Reception from 4:00–6:00 PM at A3 Gallery in downtown Rogers, followed by the Main Event from 6:00–9:00 PM at the Arkansas Arts Academy Performing Arts Complex.
Most importantly, Celebrate the Arts 2026 launches a transformational vision for our future: the renovation and modernization of the Arkansas Arts Academy Performing Arts Center.
Buy your tickets and consider a sponsorship. It is an opportunity to invest in the next generation of artists, innovators, problem-solvers, and leaders.
https://www.artsk12.org/page/celebrate-the-arts-gala
Arkansas Arts Academy is proud to announce that Austin Smithers will be the HS Assistant Principal for the 2026-2027 school year. Austin has been at Arkansas Arts Academy HS for three years and has completed his building level administration licensure. He will be an amazing administrator leading student support, culture, climate as well as school safety, family relations and academic interventions! Please join us in Congratulating Mr. Smithers!
If your student took the ACT, PreACT, PreACT 8/9, the SAT, PSAT, or PSAT 8/9, their scores should be in. Students can access their scores in their CollegeBoard or ACT account. I will also be handing out scores during advisory on Thursday, April 9th.
I am hosting a Parent Engagement night on April 23rd at 5:30 pm in the high school commons to answer questions students or parents may have about their scores and encouraged next steps related to testing. Please bring your student's score report with you to the meeting. I hope to see you there!
I am hosting a Parent Engagement night on April 23rd at 5:30 pm in the high school commons to answer questions students or parents may have about their scores and encouraged next steps related to testing. Please bring your student's score report with you to the meeting. I hope to see you there!
Join us this Thursday and Friday evening, April 9th and 10th, from 4:30-7:00 pm at the A3 Gallery for Art on the Bricks in downtown Rogers. This month's exhibition will be the Senior Showcase. All seniors who have followed a visual arts pathway during their academic career at Arkansas Arts Academy will proudly display their works of art for the public. A3 Gallery is located at 228 South 1st Street, Rogers.
Join us for AAA Night @ the Museum! Thursday, April 16th, 6-8 pm at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville. Please plan to attend this evening at the Museum as AAA K-12 students activate the galleries and grounds with performances tied to the Museum's collections. Everyone is welcome, and the event is FREE! Performances include: • Elementary and High School Dance • Elementary Music, High School Choir, Percussion, Jazz Band • Elementary Theatre & MORE!
Arkansas Arts Academy honors our 2026 District Teachers of the Year. Mrs. LaVona Cerna for Elementary and Mr. Keith Todd for High School.
Please join us in Celebrating these these amazing teachers! We are so proud of you. 👑⭐️🥇💚
Please join us in Celebrating these these amazing teachers! We are so proud of you. 👑⭐️🥇💚
What makes Arkansas Arts Academy unique? An open enrollment public charter school that offers SO MANY REASONS to join.
Schedule a tour today!
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Schedule a tour today!
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Save the Date for AAA Night @ the Museum! Thursday, April 16th, 6-8 pm at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville. Please plan to attend this evening at the Museum as AAA K-12 students activate the galleries and grounds with performances tied to the Museum's collections. Everyone is welcome, and the event is FREE! Performances include: • Elementary and High School Dance • Elementary Music, High School Choir, Percussion Jazz Band • Elementary Theatre & MORE!
Join us at the A3 Gallery on Thursday, March 12th, for Art on the Bricks in Downtown Rogers!
The A3 Gallery will be open from 4:30-7:00 pm to celebrate the theme Expressions of Spring☘ . This month’s exhibition will display original works of art 🎨and digital art created by students from the elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as an Arts Integration installation produced by middle school students. Create a message of HOPE💛 to send to children affected by the war in Ukraine at the artmaking table sponsored by Hugs From Friends and the AAA HS Ukraine Club.
The A3 Gallery will be open from 4:30-7:00 pm to celebrate the theme Expressions of Spring☘ . This month’s exhibition will display original works of art 🎨and digital art created by students from the elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as an Arts Integration installation produced by middle school students. Create a message of HOPE💛 to send to children affected by the war in Ukraine at the artmaking table sponsored by Hugs From Friends and the AAA HS Ukraine Club.
Join us at the A3 Gallery on Thursday, February 12th for Art on the Bricks in Downtown Rogers!
The A3 Gallery will be open from 4:30-7:00 pm to celebrate the theme Expressions and Letters of Love💓 . This month’s exhibition will display original works of art 🎨created by students from the elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as Arts Integration projects produced from various grades across the district. Enjoy a solo ballet 🩰 performance by AAA 4th-grade student. Create a message of HOPE💛 to send to children affected by the war in Ukraine at the artmaking table sponsored by Hugs From Friends and the AAA HS Ukraine Club.
We look forward to seeing you at the A3 Gallery, 228 South 1st Street
The A3 Gallery will be open from 4:30-7:00 pm to celebrate the theme Expressions and Letters of Love💓 . This month’s exhibition will display original works of art 🎨created by students from the elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as Arts Integration projects produced from various grades across the district. Enjoy a solo ballet 🩰 performance by AAA 4th-grade student. Create a message of HOPE💛 to send to children affected by the war in Ukraine at the artmaking table sponsored by Hugs From Friends and the AAA HS Ukraine Club.
We look forward to seeing you at the A3 Gallery, 228 South 1st Street
Join us TONIGHT for our Open House for prospective and current families. We will take groups on a tour of the school to see what our kids are exploring and will stop into multiple classrooms to engage in an arts activity together! Drop in tonight (Tuesday) between 4:30-7:30 to see the amazing things happening at Arkansas Arts Academy Elementary!
Arkansas Arts Academy has been selected to represent the state of Arkansas in the National Scrollathon®, a nationwide collaborative art project celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.
On February 3, 2026, 90 students will take part in a one-day Scrollathon experience—creating original artwork, sharing their stories, and contributing to a collaborative masterwork that will be featured in a national exhibition at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, part of the Center’s yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. In addition community members are invited to participate as well- creating a community art installation which will be exhibited at the Kennedy Center. Over 56 large scale textile artworks with the photographic portraits of the thousands that helped to create them.
The National Scrollathon brings together the collaborative creative expressions of more than 250,000 participants from all over the United States, representing all 50 states and territories, to reveal the American story in all its beautiful complexity, and involving Americans from all social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. It is about documenting where we are as Americans right now. The National Scrollathon is a collaborative art-making effort with communities across America.
This is an incredible opportunity for our students to use the arts to tell their stories and their family history. Arkansas Arts Academy is honored to represent Arkansas in this historic event.
Learn more about the National Scrollathon®:
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On February 3, 2026, 90 students will take part in a one-day Scrollathon experience—creating original artwork, sharing their stories, and contributing to a collaborative masterwork that will be featured in a national exhibition at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, part of the Center’s yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. In addition community members are invited to participate as well- creating a community art installation which will be exhibited at the Kennedy Center. Over 56 large scale textile artworks with the photographic portraits of the thousands that helped to create them.
The National Scrollathon brings together the collaborative creative expressions of more than 250,000 participants from all over the United States, representing all 50 states and territories, to reveal the American story in all its beautiful complexity, and involving Americans from all social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. It is about documenting where we are as Americans right now. The National Scrollathon is a collaborative art-making effort with communities across America.
This is an incredible opportunity for our students to use the arts to tell their stories and their family history. Arkansas Arts Academy is honored to represent Arkansas in this historic event.
Learn more about the National Scrollathon®:
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This semester, the A3 Gallery Interns have been busy ensuring our exhibitions are a success. This past week, the interns cleaned, prepped, and decorated the gallery for the annual festive event, the Art Bazaar (Thursday, Dec. 11th, 4:30-7:30 pm at the A3 Gallery).
As a reward for their hard work (and as part of their intern experience), students visited Crystal Bridges Museum for a job shadowing experience. Chelta Wray, Internship Program and Engagement Manager, and Dave O’Ryan, Head of Art Preparation and Collections Care, assisted in organizing the opportunity for the interns to meet members of the art preparation, collections management, and registration teams. Students were given access to galleries currently unavailable to the public, allowing them to observe how the art preparation team plans, prepares, and installs objects from the collection into the galleries.
Highlights of the experience included students being able to see various phases of object installations. O’Ryan guided our group through the galleries to understand the tedious and meticulous processes of art installation. Students learned about the significance of colors used for the galleries, the details that go into the decking for the vitrines that protect objects, and we were also provided a demonstration on the importance of gallery lighting.
Collections management and registration invited the students to the “back of house” to see where artworks are prepared for display. A major highlight of the experience was the opportunity to visit a vault, where works of the collection are stored when not on view to the public. Students were amazed to learn the amount of time, coordination, and planning that goes into each gallery and exhibition.
Thank you to Chelta, Dave, and the entire art preparation, collection management, and registration teams for sharing their profession with the A3 Gallery Interns of Arkansas Arts Academy! And THANK YOU to our amazing A3 Gallery Interns for all of their hard work this semester!
To learn more about the Art Bazaar and Art on the Bricks, visit https://artonthebricks.com/
Culinary students are CRUSHING IT at “Sips on the Bricks” at the A3 Gallery in Downtown Rogers tonight! Students have prepared two mocktails for visitors: A mulled apple and pear cider and a Caribbean Cooler. They also have cookies and scones for sale! But wait! There’s more! Student artists and the Academy’s ceramic’s club and art club have works of art for sale! Come out and support our students!
Happy Holidays! 🎅🏽Join us in downtown Rogers on Thursday Dec. 11th from 4:30-7:00 pm during the Art on the Bricks event for the annual Art Bazaar at the A3 Gallery 228 S. First Street! The National Art Honors Society has organized over 15 student vendors, who have produced original works of art, ceramics, jewelry, prints, stickers, and much more, to sell to the public. 🎨Need your purchases wrapped? 🎁 Student representatives from the National Art Honor Society have got you covered. These Santa helpers are offering a gift-wrapping station for purchased works of art.
Additionally, visit the Hugs From Friends art-making station and send a message of HOPE to send to children affected by the war in Ukraine.💖
To learn more about Art on the Bricks visit https://artonthebricks.com/
Additionally, visit the Hugs From Friends art-making station and send a message of HOPE to send to children affected by the war in Ukraine.💖
To learn more about Art on the Bricks visit https://artonthebricks.com/
This giving Tuesday, please consider donating to Arkansas Arts Academy. Your generosity goes directly to the support of our PreK-12th grade visual and performing arts programming. Materials, supplies, music, costumes and more. As a public charter school with limited funding, donations help sustain the diversity of our arts offerings and community outreach.
Thank you for your support.
Thank you for your support.
This Saturday, Dec. 6, from 4-7 pm is Sips on the Bricks in Downtown Rogers. This event is a holiday cocktail or mocktail contest.🎅🏽Merchants compete by crafting creative “sips” for pub crawlers to taste and vote on their favorite! AAA Culinary students are returning to the competition and will serve a hot mulled apple and pear cider mocktail 🥃 at the A3 Gallery, 228 South First Street.
Not interested in a pub crawl? No worries, cups of the mocktail will be for sale to the public not participating in Sips on the Bricks, along with sugar cookies 🍪 and sourdough blueberry scones. In addition to cider and treats, the AAA Ceramics Club and student artists 🎨will have booths set up to sell holiday-inspired wares and works of art.
To learn more about Sips on the Bricks or to register for the event visit https://www.rogerslowell.com/events/2025/12/06/signature-events/sips-on-the-bricks/
Not interested in a pub crawl? No worries, cups of the mocktail will be for sale to the public not participating in Sips on the Bricks, along with sugar cookies 🍪 and sourdough blueberry scones. In addition to cider and treats, the AAA Ceramics Club and student artists 🎨will have booths set up to sell holiday-inspired wares and works of art.
To learn more about Sips on the Bricks or to register for the event visit https://www.rogerslowell.com/events/2025/12/06/signature-events/sips-on-the-bricks/
THANK YOU to all who came to the AAA NIGHT @ THE MUSEUM event last night at Crystal Bridges Museum! Students from the elementary, middle, and high schools were stationed throughout the galleries of the Museum and shared with Museum guests how Arkansas Arts Academy incorporates works from the collection into their academic disciplines to make meaningful connections.
Thank you to all of the participating educators and students! And a HUGE thank you to Matthew Gibbons and the Learning Engagement team at Crystal Bridges for working with AAA to make this event such a success!
Thank you to all of the participating educators and students! And a HUGE thank you to Matthew Gibbons and the Learning Engagement team at Crystal Bridges for working with AAA to make this event such a success!
Sixth-grade students from Arkansas Arts Academy arrived at school early on Thursday morning to participate in a virtual conversation with elementary students from Chernihiv, Ukraine. The exchange is part of a school partnership program through Hugs From Friends, a local nonprofit organization that raises awareness about the conflict in Ukraine and supports children affected by the war.
This is the third year that the elementary school has participated in the program, beginning with AAA elementary students sending artwork to school children in Ukraine and evolving into a partnership with a specific school in Chernihiv. During the virtual conversation, students from Ukraine greeted AAA students and provided a presentation of personal introductions, songs, and conversations about interests, food, cultural customs, and holidays.
Thank you to Hugs From Friends and our friends in Chernihiv, Ukraine. To learn more about Hugs From Friends and how to become involved, visit https://www.hugsfromfriends.org/
This is the third year that the elementary school has participated in the program, beginning with AAA elementary students sending artwork to school children in Ukraine and evolving into a partnership with a specific school in Chernihiv. During the virtual conversation, students from Ukraine greeted AAA students and provided a presentation of personal introductions, songs, and conversations about interests, food, cultural customs, and holidays.
Thank you to Hugs From Friends and our friends in Chernihiv, Ukraine. To learn more about Hugs From Friends and how to become involved, visit https://www.hugsfromfriends.org/
