Paducah Tilghman High School juniors Maya Romanak, Amarie Smith, and Alayna Watkins have been accepted to Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA). GSA is an intensive three-week summer arts education program of The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts with over two hundred of the finest young artists across the Commonwealth participating.
Romanak is accepted in Visual Arts, and both Smith and Watkins have been accepted in Musical Theatre. Romanak was also named as an alternate in Creative Writing and Watkins was named an alternate in Vocal Music.
GSA auditions and reviews the Commonwealth’s most promising high school sophomores and juniors in nine different arts disciplines: Architecture + Design, Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Film + Photography, Instrumental Music, Musical Theatre, Visual Art and Vocal Music. GSA historically takes place at one of Kentucky’s colleges in the last 2 weeks of June into the 1st week of July and is held at no cost to the participants. GSA faculty includes professional artists and educators.
During the summer program, students are immersed in a rigorous schedule of daily seminars, master classes, lectures, hands-on workshops and field trips. While each student specializes in one art form, all students participate in structured, interdisciplinary arts experiences designed to familiarize them with the joys and challenges of specialties other than their own. GSA is known to be an intense, thrilling, often life-changing experience, as students make new friends, explore their creativity, and discover new things about who they are and who they can be in the future.