LITTLE ROCK — Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at two events in Arkansas on Tuesday.
Clinton will speak at the 1012 Arkansas Arts Summit at the Clinton library in Little Rock and at Academic Signing Day at El Dorado High School.
The two-day arts summit will be presented by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the center’s DeVos Institute of Arts Management, said Rebecca Tennille, publicist for the event. The event is designed to help build and maintain strong arts organizations.
After speaking at the summit in the morning, Clinton will head to El Dorado High School for a 12:3o p.m. Academic Signing Day event in the school’s Wildcat Arena.
Clinton will honor this year’s recipients of the El Dorado Promise scholarship, a $50 million scholarship program funded by Murphy Oil. Created in 2007, the program provides graduates of El Dorado High School scholarships to attend any college in the U.S.
More than 300 graduating seniors will receive El Dorado Promise scholarships, state education officials said in a news release.
State Education Commissioner Tom Kimbrell and David Wood, president and CEO of Murphy Oil, are scheduled to participate.