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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.
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ART: Painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, digital manipulation.
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THEATRE: PJC students display their many talents when they take to the stage on campus.
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MUSIC: The musical talents and voices of PJC make up the Chamber Singers, Encore! and the Chorale.
Spring 2008 Arts Calendar
April 1
The PJC Chamber Singers will present their annual spring concert, An Evening with the Paris Junior College Chamber Singers, featuring beautiful accappella sacred favorites, as well as outstanding solos from members of this top vocal group. Selections for this year’s concert include: “Be Still My Soul,” arranged by the conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; “How Firm A Foundation,” featuring accompaniment by four hands at the piano; “Shut De Door,” a favorite spiritual of the group; and “The Heavens Are Telling” from Haydn’s Creation. The concert will be presented at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church, 207 S. Church St., and will accompanied by the Chamber Singers’ new accompanist, Linda Flanary. Admission is free.
April 3
The piano students of Jennie Vaughan and the voice students of Patricia Fowzer and Roger Bryant will be presented in recital at 7:30 p.m. in the J. Emory Shaw Recital Hall. Selections will include opera arias, Italian art songs, piano classics, and Broadway favorites. Admission is free.
April 8
The PJC Chorale will present “America - Coast to Coast” at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of First United Methodist Church, 322 Lamar Ave. The Chorale is especially excited about this year’s concert, which features a variety of music from many areas and venues across America: from the Metropolitan Opera, “The Anvil Chorus”; from New Orleans, a spiritual written by Moses Hogan entitled “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel; from the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, “Total Praise; from California, the sound of the one and only Beach Boys hit, “Good Vibrations; from Detroit, “A Motown Spectacular”; and finally, the group heads musically to Baltimore by singing a medley of hits from the musical “Hairspray.” This is PJC’s largest choral group and will be accompanied by a string orchestra from the Fort Worth area as well as percussionist Shawn Wellman from Paris High School.
The Student Visual Arts Exhibit, showing in the Art Building, Foyer Gallery, will open with a reception from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m.
April 9
The Swingers’ of Birches Juried Student Exhibit will be showing in the Student Center, opening with the awards ceremony in the ballroom at 2:30 p.m. The exhibit continues through May 2.
April 11
The Paris Junior College Chamber Singers will sing the National Anthem at a Frisco Rough Riders Baseball game in the Dr Pepper Ball Park at the corner of Rough Riders Drive and Diamond Avenue in Frisco. The Chamber Singers are honored to be asked to sing during opening weekend and will be singing at the 7 p.m. game against Springfield. This game will also include a fireworks show immediately after the game. The singing of the National Anthem has become quite a tradition for the group in recent years. They have sung this four times for the Texas Rangers, once for the San Antonio Spurs and once for the Dallas Mavericks. If you’re a baseball fan and would like to see this double AA farm team of the Texas Rangers, please come and show your support for PJC and the Frisco Rough Riders.
April 18-20
Encore Presents Billboard’s Top Hits: PJC’s award-winning show choir will present a fast-paced evening of top-notch entertainment that will feature the Encore members’ favorite No. 1 Billboard top hits across the years. Renditions from the Eagles, the Four Seasons, the Beach Boys, Queen and Reba McIntire are just of few of the fun song and dance presentations. Encore has surely chosen one of your favorite performers. Come and join in the musical fun just to see who will be featured and what songs will be chosen. Admission is $3. This event will be held in the Ray E. Karrer Theatre on the PJC campus. Encore is directed by Pat Fowzer, and the group’s new choreographer is former Encore member Kristina House Courson. Times are 7:30 p.m. April 18 and April 19, and 2 p.m. on April 20.
