2023-24 Profile*

• Arts Schools Network Exemplary School:  2023-2028
• Arts in Basic Curriculum Certified School
• Artist-in-Residence Partnership with the Peace Center, resulting in annual residencies for all FAC Performing Arts Areas
• Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in South Carolina
• Kennedy Center/NSBA Arts in Education National Award (School District of Greenville County)
• Individual faculty awards from Fulbright Memorial Fund, Surdna Foundation
• Grants awarded from:
  • Alliance for Young Artists and Writers
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Alliance for Quality Education
  • SC Arts Commission
  • SC Department of Education
  • Metropolitan Arts Council
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Art Teachers Foundation
  • American Dance Festival 
  • New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
  • Edinburgh Festival
  • State Department grants and tours

Student Achievement

• FAC Senior classes annually average over $10 million in total scholarship offers from colleges, universities, and conservatories
• Superior performance annually in Scholastic Art and Writing awards; over 200 individual Regional awards in 2023, with 8 National Medals
• One Visual Arts student achieved a perfect score on the 2022 AP 2D Visual Arts portfolio - an extremely rare accomplishment
• Theatre and Music Students regularly featured in professional performances throughout the Greenville area
• Jazz Studies students accepted into the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra at the Monterey Jazz Festival - 2021 and 2022
• Consistent recognition in the national YoungArts program
• Average 90% success rate among students seeking Advanced Placement credit in Music Theory, Visual Arts
• “Crashtest”-  an internationally recognized online magazine edited by Creative Writing students
• National Classical Singer Magazine scholarship recognition
• Superior performance annually in regional, state, national Solo and Chamber Music competitions.
• Architecture students consistently “challenge exam” out of their entire first year of Clemson University architecture studios (8 credit hours each)
• Students accepted into nationally renown summer arts intensive programs across the country

Sheffield Wood Art Gallery • 4,400 Square foot Black Box Theatre with walkable tension grid that has flexible seating for 250 patrons • Sutherlin Recital Hall, seating 150, with Yamaha CX7 Grand Piano and harpsichord; state-of-the-art lighting and projection system; livestream broadcast capabilities • 2800 sq. ft. Dance classroom equipped with sprung floor, mirrors and barres • Music classrooms with individual practice modules • Visual arts studios well-equipped with printing presses, 3-D Printer, electric & gas kilns, hydraulic press, darkroom facilities, cameras, iMac computers with Adobe suite, screen printing facilities, handlooms, sewing machines, etc. • Digital Film studio equipped with iMacs • All music studios equipped with professional-level equipment for student use • Recording Arts program with a fully equipped studio • Architecture studio equipped with Sketchup, AUTOCAD, and Adobe Creative Suite

• Administrators: 2
• Teachers/Professional Staff: 26
• Support Staff: 12

• Courses in Architecture; Creative Writing; Dance (Ballet, Modern); Digital Filmmaking; Instrumental Music (Winds and Percussion); Jazz Studies (Improvisation and Performance); Recording Arts; Strings Chamber Music; Voice; Music Theory and History; Technical Theatre/Design; Theatre Performance (Voice, Diction, Movement, and Acting); Visual Arts (Design, Fiber Arts, Drawing, Photography, Clay, Metals)
• Advanced Placement Courses in Visual Arts, Music Theory and Art History
• Nation’s first Fiber Arts program in concert with a major university: North Carolina State University
• Nation’s first Art of Architecture program connected to a major university: Clemson University
• Memoranda of Agreement with SC Universities to offer college credit equivalency for FAC Courses - Clemson University, Coastal Carolina University, and Winthrop University
• Students from all area high schools, from private, charter, home schools & out-of-county
• All Faculty are practicing professionals in the arts
• Regularly scheduled exhibitions by professional artists in Sheffield Wood Gallery
• Educational Partnership with the Peace Center (masterclasses, visitations, and lectures)
• Visiting Artist program (workshops, masterclasses, performances, and lectures)
• Greenville County Youth Orchestras - the resident orchestras of the Fine Arts Center
• Educational Partnerships with Canopus Drums, Zildjian Cymbals, RS Berkeley Instruments
• Nationally recognized collection of Native American Pottery. Extensive collection of antique cameras. Teaching art collection valued at over $1,000,000 dollars