Frenship Fine Arts Presents the 2010 Showcase of the Visual & Performing Arts
The 2nd Annual Showcase will take place on April 24, 2010 at the Lubbock Civic Center. This year's show will feature the district's elementary music programs, concert bands, jazz bands, choirs, dancers, thespians and visual artists.
We are currently seeking sponsors for this event. See the sponsorship page for more details!
Quotes About the Fine Arts
Rick Perry, Texas Governor
We have encouraged the study of music and the arts in addition to the fundamentals of math, science, reading, and writing, which all have led collectively to tremendous gains in education in Texas over the last decade.
Representative Rob Eissler, House Public Education Committee Chair
For our society to move forward, for our culture to survive, fine arts education must remain strong. We already know that kids who study music do better in physics and math. Teaching the fine arts is a rounding of the whole development of the student.
Richard W. Riley, Former U.S. Secretary of Education
I believe arts education in music, theater, dance and the visual arts is one of the most creative ways we have to find the gold that is buried just beneath the surface. They (children) have an enthusiasm for life, a spark of creativity, and vivid imaginations that need training... training that prepares them to become confident young men and women. As I visit schools around the country I see a renewed interest in arts education and a growing concern about the negative impact of cutting art and music out of the curriculum. The creativity of the arts and the joy of music should be central to the education of every American child.
Dr. Mike Moses, Former Texas Commissioner of Education
Participation in the fine arts engenders discipline, a sense of community, trust, and teamwork. All of these qualities are essential to a student's potential success in the workplace.
Paul Harvey, syndicated radio show host
The 'back-to-basics curricula', while it has merit, ignores the most urgent void in our present system - absence of self-discipline. The arts, inspiring - indeed requiring - self-discipline, may be more 'basic' to our nation survival than traditional credit courses. Presently, we are spending 29 times more on science than on the arts, and the result so far is worldwide intellectual embarrassment.
Richard Dreyfuss, actor
Perhaps we've all misunderstood the reason we learn music, and all the arts in the first place. It is not only so a students can learn the clarinet, or another student can take an acting lesson. It is that for hundreds of years it has been known that teaching the arts, along with history and math and biology, helps create the well-rounded mind that western civilization, and America, have been grounded on.
Facts About the Fine Arts
School leaders affirm that the single most critical factor in sustaining arts education in their schools is the active involvement of influential segments of the community. These community members help shape and implement the policies and programs of the district.
Gaining the Arts Advantage, The President's Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1999
Students who participate in school band or orchestra have the lowest levels of current and lifelong use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs among any group in our society.
H. Con. Res 266, United States Senate, June 13, 2000
Students who participate in All-State ensembles consistently score over 200 points higher on the SAT than non-music students. This figure indicates that students can pursue excellence in music while also excelling academically.
Texas Music Educators Association, 1988-96
A recent study states that music majors have the highest rate of admittance to medical school, a whopping 66.7%. Biochemistry, the subject area closest to medicine, has a rate of 59.2%.
Rockefeller Foundation
Music students always outperform non-music students on achievement tests in reading and math. Because of their study of music, their skills are better in reading, anticipating, memory, listening, forecasting, recall and concentration.
B. Friedman, "An Evaluation of the Achievement in Reading and Arithmetic of Pupils in
Elementary School Instrumental Music Classes."
Arts Education aids students in skills needed in the workplace: flexibility, the ability to solve problems and communicate; the ability to learn new skills, to be creative and innovative, and to strive for excellence.
Joseph M. Calahan, Director of Corporate Communications, Xerox Corporation
A 2000 Georgia Tech study indicates that a student who participates in at least one college elective music course is 4.5 times more likely to stay in college than the general student population.
Effects of Music Courses on Retention, 2000; Dr. Denise C. Gardner, Georgia Tech
In a Columbia University study, students in the arts were found to be more cooperative with teachers and peers, more self-confident, and better able to express their ideas. These benefits exist across socioeconomic levels.
The Arts Education Partnership, 1999
When faced with a problem to solve, students in music and the arts produce more possible solutions, and their solutions are more creative, according to a nationwide study.
N. M. Weinberger, MuSICA Research Notes, Spring 2000
People who participate in the arts live longer than others, according to a Swedish study.
British Medical Journal, 1996