GSFTA 2025 Application

Governor’s School for the Arts 2025
June 7- June 29, 2025

The 2025 Governor’s School for the Arts program will include music, visual arts, theater, filmmaking, and dance. Going beyond performance and appreciation activities, students will experience the development of specialized activities within their chosen focus area.

  • Music - Students participate in one of the following groups: orchestra, wind ensemble, chorale, harp, and piano ensemble. Classes are taken in theory, conducting, improvisation, world music and participate in chamber music or an opera workshop. Students also rehearse within their groups and present several concerts.
  • Theatre Performance – Theatre Technical Design - Students participate as performers and design/technicians. Design students will study all areas of theatrical production including scenic, costume, sound, and lighting design. Performance students will study and develop skills in performance, including acting, stage combat, musical theatre, stage movement, devising, and other aspects of the performing arts. All students in theatre work as an ensemble to produce a finale production.
  • Visual Arts – Students take visual art classes and workshops in areas such as clay, collage, traditional drawing, experimental drawing, painting, metal working, welding, sculpture, printmaking, dark room photography in addition to a program wide art history course. The finale consists of the student work being displayed to the public in the art department gallery. During the session, visual arts students are offered individual assistance in skill development, counseling on developing portfolios for college admission, and finding personal approaches to making art.
  • Dance - Students take classes in ballet and pointe technique, modern, jazz, partnering, anatomy & kinesiology, folk & multi-cultural dance, and other dance forms. In addition, students are provided several informal and formal performance opportunities including the culminating experience of producing a major dance performance.
  • Filmmaking - Students are introduced to both the theory and technical aspects of narrative filmmaking. Through lectures, films and hand-on experiences, students will learn the three aspects of filmmaking: pre-production, production, and post-production. Student projects will include various exercises to familiarize themselves with true industry film equipment and finish with a Narrative Short as the final project. In addition to the film studies, students will also take an art history element.

Students who wish to apply for more than one (1) Arts area must fill out separate applications for EACH area. For example, a music student applying for 1) Music/Oboe; 2) Music/Voice and 3) Visual Art must submit a complete application packet for EACH of those three areas. All tenth or eleventh grade students who submit a complete application packet on or before the deadline will be invited to audition and/or submit a portfolio of work during the 2024 spring semester. Students must audition/submit to be considered for acceptance into the program. Additional information about the audition process is available online at www.gsfta.com.

Application deadline for Theatre, Dance, and Visual Arts:
Closed


Application deadline for Vocal/Instrumental Music and Filmmaking:
January 17, 2025

 

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Sex *
Current Grade *
Residence Status - Please select only one *
Elective Focus *

Please provide the name of your guidance counselor:

Two confidential Teacher Recommendations (one from your Arts Area Teacher and one from a Teacher of Your Choosing). Please list the two teachers from whom the applicant is requesting confidential teacher recommendations.

MUSIC School Applicants ONLY - fill out the area below: (Other school applicants may skip down)

Music Area - Check ONE area only

If Music - Instrumental is your choice, what is your Instrument?

Do not fill out this section unless you selected the Music - Instrumental area of study

If Music - Vocal is your choice, what is your Voice part?

Do not fill out this section unless you selected the Music - Vocal area of study

Voice Part
Filmmaking / Visual Arts School Applicants ONLY - fill out the area below: (Other school applicants may skip down)

DANCE SCHOOL APPLICANTS ONLY

Fill out the area below:  (Other school applicants may skip down)

List dance schools where you have studied and indicate how long you have studied at each one:

Financial Information and Program Cost:
Tuition: $2850.00
Activity Fee: $350.00
Total: $3200.00

SCHOLARSHIP Information (Most students receive a scholarship):
Accepted students may be awarded either:

  1. Full PROGRAM FEE SCHOLARSHIP
  2. Partial PROGRAM FEE SCHOLARSHIP
  3. Invited to attend with NO SCHOLARSHIP

 

All students regardless of scholarship awarded are responsible for the activity fee.

 

Financial aid is available on a need-basis. Need Base Applications will be located on our website­ gsfta.com with a deadline to submit by April 11, 2025.  https://gsfta.com/gsfta-forms/

For questions, email gsfta@mtsu.edu.

 

Tuition Schedule

Scholarship

Program Fee

Activity Fee

Total Owed

Full Scholarship

$0.00

$350.00

$350.00

¾ Scholarship

$712.50

$350.00

$1062.60

½ Scholarship

$1425.00

$350.00

$1775.00

¼ Scholarship

$2137.50

$350.00

$2487.50

No Scholarship

$2850.00

$350.00

$3200.00

 


Governor's Schools of Tennessee - Certification of Application
Rank - Any student applying to multiple Governor’s Schools must rank the schools in order of preference (1=most preferred, etc.). It is not necessary to rank schools to which the student will not apply.
 Ranking
Agricultural Sciences
Arts
Computational Physics
Emerging Technologies
Humanities
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Integration of Biological & Statistical Sciences
International Studies
Prospective Teachers
Sciences and Engineering
Scientific Exploration of Tennessee Heritage

Student Assurances

I have not previously attended a Tennessee Governor’s School, and I affirm, agree, and/or understand that all statements on this form are true and accurate; any misrepresentation or omission of material facts may result in disqualification or termination should I already be enrolled in a Tennessee Governor’s School.

 

By making this application, I and my parent/guardian agree to the release of any necessary school records to the Governor’s School and the respective university for the purpose of determining eligibility. I/we understand and agree that such school records will be kept confidential and used only for determining admissibility to the Governor’s School. Students who do not agree to the release of such school records for determining admissibility will not be considered for the Governor’s Schools.

 

I certify to the best of my knowledge all the information provided in this application is correct. I acknowledge that information about me may be used for publicity purposes if I am selected to attend a Governor’s School.
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