FAC Weekly Update
May 13, 2022
Good afternoon, Fine Arts Center Family
We hope you have had a wonderful week! TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT - our Elevate showcase hits the stage of the Gunter Theater. We have a few tickets remaining, so if you are free tonight, join us for what will be an annual tradition for the FAC.
Here's the latest from the halls of the Fine Arts Center...
This Week's Student Leadership Lesson
Leading with Gratitude
Always make your gratitude greater than your success.
- What we appreciate appreciates.
- What we depreciate depreciates.
- Those who add to us, draw us to them.
- Those who subtract, cause us to withdraw.
Gratitude, by its very nature, automatically works to eliminate three mental characteristics that most undermine individual success in an interactive world.
- Isolation
- Egotism
- Arrogance
“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets what he deserves.”
–Henry Ward Beecher
“The more you complain, the less you’ll obtain.”
–Unknown
“If you learn to appreciate more of what you already have, you’ll find yourself having more to appreciate.”
–Michael Angier
Dr. John C. Maxwell, The Maxwell Leadership Podcast
STUDENT ACCOLADES
Brevard Small Works Visual Arts Exhibit
- 1st Place - Karis King, Pair of Corsages
- 2nd Place - Roni Akinyele, Siblings
- 3rd Place - Hannah Brewer, Isolation
Honorable Mention - Lucy Hall, Self-Portrait
Honorable Mention - Maddi Lehde, The Ransom Note
Honorable Mention - Maddie Mann, Lovesick
Honorable Mention - Margaret Smith, Peace
Congressional Art Show Winners
1st Place: Mary Mays, Self-portrait 2nd Place: Audrey Seehorn, Pins and Needles 3rd Place: Emma Laing, Still Life
Greenville County Schools HS Visual Arts Exhibition
Photography 1st Place:
Wheelbarrow of My Dreams - Lucy Hall
Instructor: Zane Logan
Textiles, Fiber Arts, and Crafts 1st Place:
Comfort Food - Megan Edwards
Instructor: April Dauscha
Photography 2nd Place:
Still Life - Emma Laing
Instructor: Zane Logan
Functional 3-D Design 2nd Place:
4551 Billy Williamson Drive, Macon Georgia 31206 - Emma Laing
Instructor: Kelly King
Sculptural 3-D Design 3rd Place:
Inverse Cycles - Caseia Scott
Instructor: Katy Cassell
Functional 3-D Design 3rd Place:
Tiny Shelter - Sophia Cipollone, Micah Grover, Austin Hamby, Eveline Hemmerle, Alaina Huggins, Anna Grace Rafalski, Carlyle Batson, Paige Geiger, Anna Payne, John "Jack" Stevenson
Instructor: Catherine Smith
Congrats to Shaw Shurley
Shaw Shurley of the Digital Filmmaking Program has been selected as one of this year’s finalists in the SC Indie Grants 2022 Young Filmmakers Project for his short film, Die Konfrontation. The film will be shown with the other finalists at a special screening on Saturday, June 11th, at 2 PM in the auditorium at Richland Library Sandhills in Columbia (763 Fashion Dr., Columbia, SC, 29223). Shaw also recently performed the role of Rolf in the SC Children’s Theatre production of Sound of Music.
Centre Stage - Prelude Festival
- Hunter Ballard
- Alyse Barrett (FAC Alumna)
- Lauren Bennett
- Jamaica Brewster
- Grace Gardner (FAC Alumna)
- Paul Glass
- Chaz Haines
- Shanya Hunn
- Bella Lawrence
- Molly Wareham
FAC Live Stream Information
FAC PERFORMANCES - NEXT WEEK
Please come out to the FAC on Monday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. to support FAC Senior Percussionist Preston Spisak! Preston is headed to the University of Southern California to pursue a degree in Percussion Performance at the Thornton School of Music. Let's celebrate his outstanding career at the FAC by supporting him at his Senior Recital.
Don't miss the FAC Dance Senior Showcase - next Saturday, May 21 at Dance Arts Greenville. The show starts at 2:00 p.m. and tickets are available for purchase on the day of the show at DAG. See you there!
Visual Arts Senior Exhibition
- Call the FAC Main Office to make an appointment to see the show - (864) 355-2550.
- Gallery hours are Monday through Friday - 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Bring your driver's license when you come to the school - our security personnel will provide you a visitor's badge through our computer screening system.
- Enjoy the show!
FAC STUDENTS PERFORMING IN THE COMMUNITY
Poetry Readings - May 14 at the Velo Fellow
The Sound of Music - SC Children's Theatre
- Lexi Howard (Grade 11, Voice)
Bella Majarais (Grade 9, Theatre)
- Christiana Negron (Grade 12, Theatre)
- Claire Shirley (Grade 10, Voice)
- Hunter Ballard (Grade 11, Voice)
- Danielle Knox (FAC Voice Instructor and Music Department Chair)
UPCOMING EVENTS
Important Dates/Upcoming Events
- May 16 - Preston Spisak: Senior Recital, 7:00 p.m., Sutherlin Recital Hall
- May 21 - Senior Dance Showcase - Dance Arts Greenville, 2:00 p.m.
- May 23 - Aidan Wilson: Senior Recital, 7:00 p.m., Sutherlin Recital Hall
- May 24 - Commencement Rehearsal for Seniors, 4:30 p.m., WHHS Auditorium
- May 25 - FAC Commencement, 6:00 p.m., WHHS Auditorium (ticketed event)
- May 27 - FAC Film Screening, 7:00 p.m., Sutherlin Recital Hall
Fine Arts Center - Greenville County Schools
Preparing dedicated students for 21st-century careers through rigorous, pre-professional arts training in a dynamic, inclusive, collaborative learning community.
Core Values
Creativity
Respect
Grit
Identity
Connection
Email: vpopat@greenville.k12.sc.us
Website: https://www.fineartscenter.net
Location: 102 Pine Knoll Drive, Greenville, SC, USA
Phone: (864) 355-2550
Twitter: @FACGreenville