Paducah Tilghman High School juniors Caroline Grumley and Emmett Morehead have been accepted to the 2026 Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA) and junior Claire Brown and sophomore Sloane Sherrill have been named alternates.
GSA is an intensive three-week summer arts education program of The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts with the finest young artists across the Commonwealth participating. This year, GSA will take place on the campus of Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights. GSA historically takes place at one of Kentucky’s colleges and is held at no cost to the participants.
GSA auditions and reviews the Commonwealth’s most promising high school sophomores and juniors in ten different arts disciplines: Architecture + Design, Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Film + Photography, Graphic Design, Instrumental Music, Musical Theatre, Visual Art, and Vocal Music.
Caroline is accepted for Dance and Emmett is accepted for Vocal Music. Claire has been named an alternate for Vocal Music and Sloane for Dance.
During the summer program, students are immersed in a rigorous schedule of daily seminars, master classes, lectures, hands-on workshops and field trips. Classes are taught by professional artists and educators. Each student specializes in one art form and participates 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.
Pictured L to R: Claire Brown, Emmett Morehead, Caroline Grumley, and Sloane Sherrill