The WLKY Spirit of Louisville Foundation will commemorate the 46th Anniversary of the WLKY Bell Awards and present the 2023 WLKY Bell Awards on Oct. 5 at the legendary Churchill Downs Millionaires Row.
ou may have seen or heard them on campus this June and July a young artist covered in clay or paint, the profile of a dancer practicing a perfect pirouette, a writer scribbling away in a notebook, an actor delivering a monologue or a vocalist rehearsing the solo of a beloved Broadway tune. This weekend is your chance to see the finished product as the second session of the Governor's School for the Arts comes to a close .
When University of Kentucky welcomed the Governor's School for the Arts to campus in 2019, there was no way either party could have predicted how the partnership would evolve.
From serving a class of 256 to now more than 500 of the state’s brightest creative young minds, to taking nine hands-on fields of study from the stage and studio to online screens and back again, the program has not only weathered the storm of year-to-year modifications, but also a global pandemic and the expansion of the program itself.