Announcements

Application and Audition Timeline

Mark your calendar!  Please note our Application and Audition Timeline.

• Recruiting and Information Sessions at GCS Middle and High Schools – September through the end of November
• Application Opens in Backpack – December 1, 2021
• Application Closes in Backpack, Pre-Screening Material Due – January 20, 2022
• Notification of First Round Results, Invitations to In-Person Auditions – February 11, 2022
• In-Person Audition Window – February 26 - March 12
• Notification to students of results in Backpack – March 28

GCS students - please speak to your School Counselor about visitation and information sessions.

Check our website for updates, including details about the application and audition process - coming soon!

Visiting Artists

Did You Know?
The Fine Arts Center seeks to enhance the educational experience for our students by regularly bringing in visiting artists to our studios.  The FAC Partners provide financial support for all programs, allowing our Faculty to invite nationally and internationally recognized artists to our school. 

Calling All FAC Alumni

It is very important that we have a strong relationship with our Alumni, as your engagement is critical to the present and future of our school. We look forward to getting and keeping you involved. Please see the FAC ALUMNI CONNECTION, VOLUME 1 and complete the alumni survey. 

Blake Slaughter Performs at Monterey Jazz Festival

Congratulations to FAC Jazz Studies Sophomore, Blake Slaughter. Blake was chosen as the solo quitarist for the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. The group performed at the Montery Jazz Festival on September 25 and 26.

View a video of Blake performing a solo at the Jazz Festival.

Alabama, Y'all

The Sheffield Wood Gallery welcomes Alabama, Y'all, a solo-exhibit featuring work by Patrick Owens, on display from September 20 through October 22, 2021. Owens has created a collection of photographs and sculptures based on his ongoing trips to Alabama that began during his early childhood. Owens' roots and family are from Alabama; however, he himself was not raised there. This lends him a unique perspective as both an insider, presenting his homeland, and outsider, viewing an unknown place. Each work references seemingly abandoned storefronts, restaurants, churches, and a variety of vernacular happenstance in rural areas of the state. Owens brings a sense of wonder at how long some of these objects, signs, and buildings have been left in such states of disrepair, transforming them into a shrine of the recent and not-so-recent past. His assemblages are sculpted from discarded materials, collected over the years. Owens brings new life into these materials, allowing them to tell a new tale and achieve renewed functions by way of his unique lens.

Learn More   View the Virtual Gallery

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