{"id":438,"date":"2013-11-27T05:14:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T05:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/?p=438"},"modified":"2013-11-27T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T05:14:18","slug":"centre-college-to-host-governors-school-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/2013\/11\/27\/centre-college-to-host-governors-school-for-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre College to Host Governor\u2019s School for the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

By LAURA HUMBLE<\/strong> – STAFF WRITER<\/em><\/p>\n

This summer, Centre College will play host to the Kentucky Center\u2019s Governor\u2019s School for the Arts (GSA) Program. GSA is an intensive three-week program geared toward promoting various artistic disciplines including architecture, creative writing, dance, drama, instrumental music, musical theatre, new media, visual art, and vocal music for high school students all over the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n

For the last 14 years, Transylvania University has hosted GSA annually on its campus. This year marks a significant change as GSA moves to Centre\u2019s campus. \u201cEvery three years, the Kentucky Center for the Arts\u2026 puts out a public call for applications for institutions to apply to host [GSA]\u2026 We had the space and the time, and we were looking as a college for other activities to do,\u201d GSA Liaison and Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts Matthew Hallock said.<\/p>\n

This is an exciting acquisition because GSA has such a profound impact on its students\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

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Students participate in a dance recital at the Governor\u2019s School for the Arts. GSA will come to campus the summer of 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cNot every kid when they\u2019re in high school is passionate about academics\u2026 or athletics,\u201d Hallock said. \u201cHaving a place where that kid can go where they are going to be embraced, where they\u2019re going to be shown that what it is they care about is important and valued\u2026 is really important.\u201d GSA offers this kind of emphasis for students who are inclined toward the arts.<\/p>\n

To see the impact of this program in action, one has only to look around Centre\u2019s campus for the several GSA alumni.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe faculty [at GSA] really taught me how to push my limits and be versatile with my art. And just being around all these other people was really inspirational,\u201d senior Sandy Zhang said. Zhang, who attended GSA for visual art, was so inspired by her time at the program, she, through the Art Society, has organized a Silent Art Auction in order to raise money to help fund the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt speaks to the sort of fierce loyalty that GSA alumni have\u2026 to initiate something like this on their own\u201d Hallock said.<\/p>\n

The Art Society\u2019s Silent Art Auction will be held on Thurs., Dec. 5 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Ewen Room. The art for auction will include donated pieces from both Centre faculty and GSA alumni. For those interesting in donating pieces, please contact junior Jennifer Kim.<\/p>\n

Other GSA alumni on Centre\u2019s campus weighed in on their opinion of the program coming to Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will be good and interesting,\u201d senior Greg Nicaise said. Nicaise studied architecture at GSA. \u201cI think Centre has some work to do to get equipped, like in the music rooms\u2026 and multimedia space because we\u2019re not an art-focused school. But I think the campus will work a lot better to build fellowship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hallock, however, feels that Centre\u2019s campus is well-prepared, \u201cCentre is exceedingly well suited as is,\u201d Hallock said. \u201cWe are a larger campus than Transylvania\u2026 We have larger facilities for the disciplines themselves. We will have to buy a little bit more dance floor and dance mirrors\u2026 but that\u2019s really the only thing we have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Centre College will be hosting an ArtShop on Sat., Nov. 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. An ArtShop is a welcome session for GSA at which students can learn more about what it is like to be a student in the GSA program.<\/p>\n

First-year and GSA alumna, Madison Stuart, is getting involved by organizing a GSA Coffee House Day at the Hub that same day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s for the prospective GSA students and their parents, where GSA alumni perform and talk about their experiences,\u201d Stuart said. Stuart attended GSA for the creative writing discipline.<\/p>\n

GSA will be held from June 22 to July 12, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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