East Texas Performing Arts awarded a new Epiphone acoustic/electric guitar (Epiphone is a Gibson owned brand) to an outstanding high school student, Taylor Skinner. Taylor is a Marshall. She will graduate high school as Valadictoian of her class, and holding an Associate degree. Taylor will be going to TSTC next year.

She began her interest in guitar teaching herself how to play a ukelelie and then an acoutic guitar.