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The Fine Arts Division of Paris Junior College is known throughout the region for its excellent foundation programs in the visual and performing arts. Each department, Art, Drama, Music and Speech, offers one-on-one advisement with the student in selecting an appropriate sequence of courses towards an Associate degree, transfer to an upper level degree and for life enrichment. All of the instructors are artists in their own right with master’s level degrees who bring real world concepts, experiences and arts education to their students.

All of the PJC Fine Arts departments provide numerous scholarships, travel experiences, visits by guest artists as well as performance, competition, and exhibition opportunities for the students from Paris to Austin and beyond. Many PJC fine arts students have gone on to be accomplished professionals as performance and studio artists; educators at all levels; and technical designers.

Paris Junior College Fine Arts Division also serves as a cultural center promoting artistic, dramatic, and musical activities for the campus and the community.

Fall 2010 / Spring 2011 Arts Calendar

Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 2010

Poe’s Midnight Drary
By Richard McElvain

The thumping of a beating heart, the constant tapping of the unknown, the screams of the living from the grave, and the haunting tale of a mysterious author make up this account of Edgar Allen Poe. Edgar Allen Poe’s life works are hauntingly dramatized in this play. “Poe’s Midnight Dreary” is a collection of some of Poe’s best works tied together in a play using Poe’s dramatic life story as the interludes between each poem and short story. As he deliriously remembers them on an anonymous deathbed in a Baltimore Hospital we see vignettes from “The Tell Tale Heart,” “The Black Cat,” “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

Nov. 12, 13, 19 & 20, 2010, at 7 p.m.
Nov. 14 & 21, 2010, at 2 p.m.

General Admission: $8 (Free with PJC ID.)

Schoolhouse Rock Live!
Book by Scott Ferguson, George Keating and Kyle Hill
Music and Lyrics By Lynn Ahrens, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, Kathy Mandry, George Newall and Tome Yohe

The Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science and politics through clever, tuneful songs is not only making a small-screen comeback, instructing a whole new generation to “Unpack Your Adjectives” and “Do The Circulations,” it’s lighting up stages everywhere, from school multi-purpose rooms to university and regional theatres all around the country. With its minimal band, set, costume and flexible cast requirements, the show may be performed in virtually any space, bringing its infectious zest to a cross-generational audience. Children just discovering the TV series to “Generation X-ers” seeking a taste of nostalgia will delight in this sure-fire entertainment that’s simply good, clean — and educational — fun.

Feb. 24-27, 2011

The Violet Hour
By Richard Greenberg

A fledgling (and upper-class) World War I-era publisher is trying to decide which work to choose as his imprint’s first title. He has two manuscripts but lacks the funds to publish both. His difficult decision—whether to publish his lover’s memoir or the novel written by his best friend—is further complicated by the arrival of a mysterious machine that produces pages predicting the future of the play’s protagonists, affecting their lives and relationships in haunting and unexpected ways.