CONWAY — Georgianna Stafford, a 2019 Fryeburg Academy graduate, has been named a 2020 National YoungArts Foundation finalist in voice, it was recently announced.
According to a press release from the academy, Stafford, 18, "is being recognized for her caliber of artistic achievement and joins 686 of the nation’s most accomplished artists in the visual, literary and performing arts."
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