SC Governor’s School invites prospective students to the annual Open Doors event
October 12, 2011
GREENVILLE, SC – October 29, 2011– SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities (SCGSAH) invites students and their families from across the state to visit campus with the Open Doors event. On Saturday, October 29, attendees will be able to meet current faculty and students, explore the campus and experience life at SCGSAH.
SCGSAH is a place that is hard to define on paper. Visiting this great campus while seeing the “beehive” of artistic and academic activity illustrates what makes this place great. To really understand life at SCGSAH, President Dr. Bruce Halverson will present an informational session along with Dean of Students Julie Allen, Director of Student Services Matthew Burns and VP of Finance and Administration John Warner. Following that session, visitors will get a taste of one of the five art areas: Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Music or Visual Arts, straight from the department faculty.
Education here takes on a different meaning, where academics are just as challenging as the art in which students study. Students have an opportunity to learn with the best faculty and take the next steps in their artistic and/or academic careers. Academic instructors boast in the least, Master’s Degrees. Artistic faculty members are active in their disciplines led by a collection of distinguished Department Chairs: award-winning, published author Scott Gould, world-renowned dance master Stanislav Issaev, nationally accomplished actor/director Daniel Murray, experienced conductor/musician Dr. David Hamilton, and successful artist/sculptor Joe Thompson, whose work is exhibited on campus.
Students with a passion for art become better artists and students in this place. This public residential high school has the third highest SAT scores in South Carolina. They are ranked in the top 1% in academics for public schools, according to Newsweek. The 2011 graduating class accumulated approximately $20M in scholarship offers.
SCGSAH accepts rising 11th and 12th grade students in five art areas: Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts. The summer programs Discovery and Academy accept rising 9th and 10th graders, with a larger age range accepted for the summer dance program.
To see what this school has to offer, reserve your space for Open Doors by phone or email (preferably by October 17): 864-282-3713 or [email protected]
South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities
The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities is a public residential high school located in Greenville, South Carolina, providing a unique arts and academic education to the state’s emerging artists. Young artists, usually in 11th or 12th grade, study creative writing, dance, drama, music, or visual arts during the academic year and rising 9th and 10th grade students attend summer programs in these areas, with summer dance programs open to rising 7th through 12th grade students. For more information, visit www.scgsah.org or call 864.282.3713.
