Rock Island Arts Festival

Join us in a fun filled evening and help promote the Arts!

The Chickasha Area Arts Council presents a blast from the past with good old rock ‘n roll music, poodle skirts, slicked back hair and pony tails. We will have contests for best dressed, hula hoops, dance and most creative sundae. We will be playing a few games, having a silent auction and eating good old-fashioned hamburgers, hot dogs, coke and root beer floats and ice cream sundaes.

The local Christian band, For the Name, will be playing 50′s and 60′s music to dance to and local artists will be performing various mediums of art throughout the event.

Rock Island Arts Festival is September 27, 28 & 29th and is a fun, family-oriented and free event. RIAF is made possible only with the support of the Chickasha citizens, surrounding communities, civic organizations and individual volunteers. Tickets are available by calling 222-2544 or contacting CAAC directors, Chickasha Chamber of Commerce and Jay’s Jewelry.

Rock Island Arts Festival Fundraiser

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Mail to Chickasha Area Arts Council, PO Box 505, Chickasha, OK 73023-0505 or submit to an arts council director. For more information info@chickashaarts.org

• Artisans’ Booths
• Music
• Performing Arts
• Aerial Silk Performances
• Children’s Creation Station
• Mainstreet Merchants’ Treasure Trove for Children
• Food Concessions
• Spool Art Tables Silent Auction
• Express Star Graffiti Wall
• Art Demos on the Grounds

USAO Sponsored Activities

• Sidewalk Chalk Art
• Free Face Painting
• Junk Art Competition
• Minute to Win it Competition

On Saturday September 29th the Rock Island Arts Festival is Proud to Present Vanessa Adams Harris in her portrayal honoring the life and work of a Chickasha native whose quest for equal education helped lay the groundwork for the desegregation of our nation’s public schools.  Conversation to Follow.

Artisans!!!  There’s still time to submit your application.
Deadline is September 15.

If you would like to participate in the 2012 Rock Island Arts Festival as an Artisan, Vendor, or Winery/Brewery, please click the links below to download and print your application.

Click Here For: 2012 WINE & BREWERY VENDOR APPLICATION RIAF
Click Here For: 2012 FOOD VENDOR APPLICATION RIAF
Click Here For: 2012 ARTISAN APPLICATION RIAF

See a beautiful example of our collaborative art work at the Main Street Merchants in the Dixie building.  This year visitors will see painted art spools scattered throughout the festival grounds.  These tables will be auctioned off with proceeds going to the Arts Council children’s art programs.

The Rock Island Arts Festival and Chickasha Area Arts Council will be at the Grady County Fair on August 22nd-25th. We will be having Live Arts demonstrations and having a drawing.

A major goal of the 2012 Rock Island Arts Festival is to create community through art-making.  We have several ways this is happening both before and during the Festival. 

SPOOLS:  We will be inviting the public to come and help us paint those large wooden spools to be placed around the Festival grounds.  Details will be announced soon.

JUNK ART:  Every year the Rock Island Arts Festival has a Junk Art Competition when we invite Festival visitors to create beauty out of found objects.  The winners are awarded cash prizes.

GRAFFITI WALLS:  Last year “The Express-Star” donated materials to create several Graffiti Walls around the Festival grounds.  Visitors were encouraged to leave their own creative mark on these public spaces.

Newly installed sculpture by nationally known Archie Held to be named and dedicated September 28th, the first day of the Festival.

Rock Island Arts Festival 2011 Photo Gallery

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The Rock Island Ride, Ride for the Arts Benefit Motorcycle Run for Chickasha’s Rock Island Arts Festival May 14, 2011 Photo Gallery.

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