High school students "face" arts event in record numbers
by BETH YEARY
Issue date: 2/8/10 Section: A&E
February has brought winter winds and rains with it, but last Thursday and Friday, it also brought something else; a record number of high school seniors and juniors.
Twenty-six students came to participate in FACE, the Fine Arts Colleges Experience.
After filling out a registration form due by Jan. 9th, 26 pupils from surrounding high schools with interests in art, music, or theatre got a taste of what goes on in the life of an arts major at Piedmont.
FACE started at 4 p.m. on Thursday, when the high school students went through registration at Brooks Hall.
Then, they participated in a tour of the campus.
Next came a dinner at the Nielsen Dining Hall.
After that, visiting students spent time with their hosts, Piedmont students who shared their dorm rooms with the high school student.
Joe Wingate, a freshman ceramics major, was the host for Mikel Ried, a junior from Douglas County High School.
Wingate says the challenging parts about being a host are getting to know your kid and learning what they like and trying to help them out.
Ried found out about FACE through his art teacher at school.
Welsey Henson, a senior from Jackson County High School, said he loved Piedmont and Piedmont college has a great atmosphere.]
Departmental activities were next at 7:30 p.m.
Students interested in music attended an organ demonstration by Joy Hayner at the Chapel.
Students considering to Piedmont for an art major participated in an exercise drawing outline of themselves on a large piece of white paper and then coloring it in any way they wanted..
Those interested in becoming theatre majors went to the Swanson Center for Performing Arts and Communications, where they viewed a rehearsal of Godspell.
After the departmental activities, FACE students and their hosts gathered at the Swanson Center for the Swanson Social, where they played theatre games and watched the theatre's Improv Troupe perform.
After the social, the students went back to their host's dorms for the night.
The next morning, they had breakfast before visiting the morning fine arts class of their choice such as a painting class in the art department.
The theatre department opened two classes for students, stage movement and dance and a theatre education course.
Henson, who was interested in vocal performance at Piedmont, says he wants listen to the Chamber Singers and church music rehearsals offered Friday morning by the music department.
Finally, after lunch, the FACE students signed out at Brooks Hall and filled out an evaluation form before going home.
"There is nothing I don't like," says Rachel Evers, a senior at J.L. Mann High School in Greenville, S.C. "I love this school a lot."
Twenty-six students came to participate in FACE, the Fine Arts Colleges Experience.
After filling out a registration form due by Jan. 9th, 26 pupils from surrounding high schools with interests in art, music, or theatre got a taste of what goes on in the life of an arts major at Piedmont.
FACE started at 4 p.m. on Thursday, when the high school students went through registration at Brooks Hall.
Then, they participated in a tour of the campus.
Next came a dinner at the Nielsen Dining Hall.
After that, visiting students spent time with their hosts, Piedmont students who shared their dorm rooms with the high school student.
Joe Wingate, a freshman ceramics major, was the host for Mikel Ried, a junior from Douglas County High School.
Wingate says the challenging parts about being a host are getting to know your kid and learning what they like and trying to help them out.
Ried found out about FACE through his art teacher at school.
Welsey Henson, a senior from Jackson County High School, said he loved Piedmont and Piedmont college has a great atmosphere.]
Departmental activities were next at 7:30 p.m.
Students interested in music attended an organ demonstration by Joy Hayner at the Chapel.
Students considering to Piedmont for an art major participated in an exercise drawing outline of themselves on a large piece of white paper and then coloring it in any way they wanted..
Those interested in becoming theatre majors went to the Swanson Center for Performing Arts and Communications, where they viewed a rehearsal of Godspell.
After the departmental activities, FACE students and their hosts gathered at the Swanson Center for the Swanson Social, where they played theatre games and watched the theatre's Improv Troupe perform.
After the social, the students went back to their host's dorms for the night.
The next morning, they had breakfast before visiting the morning fine arts class of their choice such as a painting class in the art department.
The theatre department opened two classes for students, stage movement and dance and a theatre education course.
Henson, who was interested in vocal performance at Piedmont, says he wants listen to the Chamber Singers and church music rehearsals offered Friday morning by the music department.
Finally, after lunch, the FACE students signed out at Brooks Hall and filled out an evaluation form before going home.
"There is nothing I don't like," says Rachel Evers, a senior at J.L. Mann High School in Greenville, S.C. "I love this school a lot."
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