Governor's School for the Arts (Kentucky)

The Kentucky Center Governor's School for the Arts (GSA) is a three-week summer program for rising juniors and seniors in the state of Kentucky. Each spring over 1700 students audition for 223 spots in the program. The program is located at Centre College in Danville, KY. The program is free for students to attend, and most universities in the state, and several in other states, offer scholarships to GSA alumni. The 223 selected applicants are divided into nine different art forms (disciplines), which means that an average of about 25 students throughout the state are selected for each discipline, emphasizing the selectivity of the program's recruitment of prospective young artists.

GSA's Architecture program introduces students to the ideas, process, and techniques applied in architecture and design while encouraging the development of creative and analytical thought. The goal of the program is to provide the framework within which students can explore the abstract, spatial, social, cultural and environmental concepts that affect the built environment while arriving at architectural solutions in a design studio setting. Design thinking is approached through a series of projects which include writing, drawing, and model-building exercises as part of an iterative design development process. The projects are supplemented with lectures, walking tours and field trips, allowing students to observe the built environment and study what has been done before in relation to the work they are doing.

Students in the creative writing program receive intense individualized and small group instruction in all aspects of writing, from the formulation of ideas to revising, publishing, and performing. Students participate in classes, workshops, field trips, and individual conferences with faculty members who are published authors. Students also read aloud their works-in progress, learn peer editing techniques, design and create their own chapbooks, and participate in several public readings. GSA writers meet and learn from a variety of visiting professional writers and guest artists.

At GSA, dancers receive physically and mentally demanding dance training taught by GSA faculty and by visiting dance professionals. All students receive technique classes in ballet, modern and composition. While the emphasis is on these three areas that include pointe, variations and improvisation, additional classes may be taught in other styles of dance such as jazz, hip-hop, character dance, and flamenco depending on schedule. Seminars on injury prevention and care, dance science, cross training, nutrition, dance career options and dance history will also be scheduled. Students will learn, rehearse and perform group choreographic works.

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