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We prepare students for advanced study and career opportunities through studio classes taught by professional artists/teachers.
The Fine Arts Center of Greenville County, the first specialized arts school in South Carolina, was established in August, 1974.
Students apply to the Center and are selected on the basis of talent, interest, motivation, and commitment to their discipline and are able to study theatre, dance, visual arts, music, creative writing, or digital filmmaking.
The purpose of the Fine Arts Center is to provide advanced comprehensive arts instruction to students who are artistically talented and who wish to take an intensive pre-professional program of study.
Students attend the Fine Arts Center five days a week in the morning or afternoon for 110 minutes of instruction, spending the remainder of their time in other academic work at the home high school.
Each year approximately 400 students attend the Fine Arts Center, and, of that number, some ninety percent go on to higher education.
We are no longer accepting applications for the 2012-2013 school year.
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A.R.M.E.S. Nomination Form now on-line.
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Current newsletter now online.
The Fine Arts Center pARTners are making it easier than ever to stay connected to FAC! You can now follow the pARTners on
Twitter, "like" them on Facebook, and follow the pARTners blog for a calendar of events and updates on opportunities at the Fine Arts Center.
The Metals Department is pleased to announce the visit of Robert Ebendorf, an esteemed metalsmith, jeweler, and leader in the American studio jewelry movement. He is famous for finding objects that are under appreciated or overlooked by society and giving them a new life, such as fossils, animal claws, or even pull tops from lids. He is one of the founding members of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG), is an inductee of the National Metalsmiths Hall of Fame, and has had his own retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has been awarded a Fulbrigth Scholar Grant and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and is currently the Belk Distinguished Professor of Art at East Carolina University in North Carolina. Mr. Ebendorf will work with Fine Arts Center visual arts students on Friday, January 6, 2012, and will give a presentation about his life and work at 7:00 p.m., which will be free and open to the public.
Metals Teacher Katy Cassell is accepting entries for the 2012 National Juried High School Metals Exhibition, to be juried by esteemed metalsmith Robert Ebendorf. Postmark deadline December 12, 2011. Click here for the prospectus and entry form.
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It’s easier than ever to support our wonderful school. We know you are busy . . . so now supporting the FAC is just a click away. Click on the link below and follow the simple instructions. Use your credit card, your debit card or your check book and make a tax deductible contribution to the Fine Arts Center. From $5 to $500, from a one-time gift to a monthly contribution, you can help our outstanding arts school continue its record of excellence! And, thanks! We appreciate your help, these budget shortfalls aren’t going to go away any time soon! I WANT TO DONATE NOW
College Acceptances 2011 - Every year Fine Arts Center seniors are accepted to an impressive array of universities and colleges across the nation, often with substantial scholarship opportunities. In the past, students from across our range of disciplines have attended Harvard, the Manhattan School of Music, University of Wisconsin, Madison, the University of Southern California, the New School in New York City, the University of Miami, Pratt Institute and the Kansas City Art Institute on either partial or full scholarships. Follow our link to see where the seniors from the class of 2010-2011 are ending up: proof that the path to success lies through the arts. College Acceptances 2011
