Frank H. Kenan Scholarship

The Frank H. Kenan scholarship covers educational expenses and required fees for a UNCSA high school student from North Carolina, studying in the school of dance or music, who wishes to attend UNCSA as a college degree-seeking student.

Additionally, the recipient will have the following attributes:

• Has demonstrated excellence, imagination and originality, and great promise in both academic and arts course work.
• Has earned at least a 3.5 GPA in each set of UNCSA courses.

2023-2024 Frank H. Kenan Scholar

Katherine Nettles is currently in her senior year at UNCSA. She will complete her B.F.A. at age 20, while adjunctly dancing with the Triad International Ballet for the 2023-24 season. She currently has a 3.982 GPA. Nettles was adopted from Guangzhou China when she was two years old and grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She began dance training at Greensboro Ballet at age three, and continued her training there until the age of 14, when she entered the UNCSA high school ballet program.

Prior to UNCSA, Nettles performed Chinese folk dance with the Greensboro Chinese Association from 2007-15. After high school, she continued at UNCSA, majoring in ballet. She has attended various summer intensives including Boca Ballet Theater, Carolina Ballet, Houston Ballet, ABT NY, Pennsylvania Ballet, Nashville Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet Theater.

Some of Nettles' favorite roles she has performed are Princess Florine and Canary Fairy from "Sleeping Beauty," Cupid from "Don Q", and Columbine Doll from "The Nutcracker." Furthermore, she enjoyed dancing George Balachine’s "Serenade," "Wondering On" by Stephanie Martinez, and "Viva Vivaldi" by Gerald Arpino. Most recently, Nettles performed the role of Little Red Riding Hood in Triad International Ballet’s production of "Sleeping Beauty."

Nettles participated in the competition held by the National Society of Arts and Letters, earning second place in the Virginia/North Carolina Chapter in 2021. She has performed in three produced films, UNCSA’s "Nutcracker," shown on PBS in 2022, Greensboro Ballet’s "Nutcracker," filmed in 2021, and in a soon-to-come UNCSA film, performing in "Shostakovich" by Dean Endalyn T. Outlaw. Nettles has also enjoyed collaborating on two film projects: "Intra Sections," edit by Sara Vanderlaan and directed by Mr. Reddick, and "Pas De Deux," directed by Rohit Lila Ram.

Contact:
Erin Edge, Kenan Excellence Scholars Liaison
Phone: 336-726-6940
Fax: 336-770-3367