Paducah Tilghman High School juniors Angelique Hernandez and Naarah White have been accepted to the 2025 Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA) and sophomore Emmett Morehead has been named an alternate.
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 the University of Kentucky. GSA historically takes place at one of Kentucky’s colleges and is held at no cost to the participants. This year the participants will attend one of two summer sessions.
GSA auditions and reviews the Commonwealth’s most promising high school sophomores and juniors in nine different arts disciplines: Design (formerly known as Architecture + Design), Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Film + Photography, Instrumental Music, Musical Theatre, Visual Art, and Vocal Music.
Angelique is accepted for Visual Art and Naarah is accepted for Vocal Music. Emmett has been named an alternate for Vocal Music.
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: Naarah White, Angelique Hernandez, and Emmett Morehead