Scholarships in Art, General

Professional Development Fellowship

Award: $10,000, Deadline: Fall

Applicant must be a current member of the College Art Association who will be receiving their M.F.A. or Ph.D. degree in the calendar year following the year of application. Applicant must be a promising artist or art historian.

 

Visual Art Merit Scholarship

Award: -, Deadline: February 13

Applicant must be enrolled in at least one art course per semester and must submit a typed list of art participation and activities and six slides of work completed in the last year.

 

Out-of-State Fee Waiver for the Performing Arts

Award: -, Deadline: January 15

Applicant must have outstanding performance ability in art, forensics, music, theatre, or dance.

 

Art Scholarship

Award: $4,000, Deadline: January 5

Applicant must have participated and excelled in art. Review of photographic slide portfolio and interview required.

 

Winterthur Research Fellowship

Award: -, Deadline: January 15

Applicant must be an academic, museum, or independent scholar or be working on doctoral dissertation. Award is a residential research fellowship in Winterthur's library and museum collections.

 

Departmental Scholarship in Art, Art History, Digital Media Arts, Music, Science, Theatre and Writing

Award: $5,000, Deadline: January 10; February 1

Applicant must excel in the area.

 

Talent Award

Award: -, Deadline: March 15 (priority)

Applicant must demonstrate talent in art, music, or athletics. Portfolio and art major required of art applicants. Audition required of music applicants.

 

Dillingham Family Scholarship

Award: $750, Deadline: None

Preference is given to applicants who demonstrate artistic or leadership abilities and who are from Clay or Platte Counties, Missouri.

 

Greer, Lapham, Roth Scholarship

Award: -, Deadline: February 21

Applicant must be a full-time student with a minimum 3.0 GPA, be a resident of the western slope of Colorado, and have financial need.

 

NEH Fellowship

Award: $30,000, Deadline: January 15

Applicant must be an academic, museum, or independent scholar, and be a U.S. citizen or have been a U.S. resident for at least three years. Award is not for dissertation research. Award is a residential research fellowship in Winterthur's library and museum collections.

 

T.R. Braithwaite Memorial Scholarship

Award: -, Deadline: March 1

Applicant must demonstrate promise, talent, and seriousness of purpose, and financial need.

 

Illustrators of the Future Contest

Award: $500, Deadline: December 31; March 31; June 30; September 30

Applicant must be an amateur illustrator who has not had published or been payed, in media distributed nationally to the general public, more than three black-and-white story illustrations or more than one process-color painting. Entry should consist of three science fiction or fantasy illustrations done by entrant in a black-and-white medium, each representing a different theme and none having been previously published.

 

PICA/Weese Scholarship

Award: $250, Deadline: None

Applicant must apply through their school's graphics program.

 

PICA Foundation Scholarship for Appalachian State University

Award: $1,000, Deadline: None

Applicant must apply to GAIT program at specified school.

 

PICA Foundation Scholarship for Chowan College

Award: $1,000, Deadline: None

Applicant must apply through school's graphics program.

 

Scholtz Memorial Scholarship

Award: -, Deadline: April 5

Applicant must show talent and potential as an artist.

 

Kress Interpretive Fellowship

Award: $30,000, Deadline: April 1

Applicant must be an indivual who has completed a B.A. degree in art history, studio art or museum studies and who are pursuing graduate study in these fields or a related field, or who have completed an M.A. degree in one of these fields. Application must be made by the museum at which the fellowship will be based. CD containing a complete set of the application materials as a single PDF is strongly encouraged to be included with printed materials. Award is for a museum-based curatorial fellowship in European art from antiquity through early nineteenth century.

 

Shoe-Smith Scholarship

Award: $2,000, Deadline: March 1

Applicant must be a resident of Denver, Colo. Applicant must graduate in top third of secondary school class, enroll in the College of Engineering or the College of Arts and Science, and demonstrate financial eligibility.

 

Davies Memorial Scholarship

Award: $3,000, Deadline: March 1

Applicant must be a Colorado resident majoring in the arts and sciences, and must be enrolled in the coll. of Arts and Sciences. Selection is based upon academic performance and demonstrated financial need.

 

Marjorie Skiff Rose Scholarship

Award: $5,000, Deadline: March 1

Applicant must be a Colorado resident majoring in the arts and sciences. Selection is based upon financial need, a strong academic record, and evidence of personal integrity and good citizenship.

 

Art Scholarship

Award: $2,000, Deadline: March 1 (priority)

Applicant must submit a portfolio.

 

Fine Arts Scholarship

Award: $400, Deadline: January 1

Applicant must demonstrate talent in art, dance, music, or theatre.

 

Iowa Arts Council Scholarship for the Arts

Award: $1,500, Deadline: February 1

Applicant must be an Iowa resident who will graduate from an Iowa high school and who has been accepted as a full-time undergraduate student at a fully-accredited Iowa college or university with a major in at least one of the following arts areas: dance, literature, music, theatre, folk/traditional arts, or visual arts.

 

Leo and Julia Forchheimer Fellowship

Award: $20,000, Deadline: November 3

Selection is based upon a full resume, statement up to 1000 words, tentative schedule of work and travel, three letters of recommendation, transcripts, and a list of other fellowships applied for during the same period required.

 

Annette Kade Fellowship

Award: $26,000, Deadline: November 3

Applicant must be a French or German pre-doctoral student who would not otherwise have the opportunity to study in the U.S. Award is for one year's study or research at the Metropolitan Museum.

 

College of Applied Arts and Sciences Departmental Scholarship

Award: $854, Deadline: February 1

 

Leadership, Excellence, Achievement & Diversity Program Scholarship

Award: $1,000, Deadline: March 1

Applicant must be a first generation college student and a student of color. Participation in minority Arts and Sciences program, Multicultural Engineering program or McNeils Academic program required.

 

Mary Laughlin Beardmore Anderson Fund

Award: -, Deadline: March 1

Applicant must be an undergraduate student at an accredited college or university in the state of Hawaii.

 

Fine Arts Talent Award

Award: $2,500, Deadline: February 1

Selection is based upon talent and academic qualifications. A special emphasis is placed on talent through an audition or portfolio review.

 

Andrew Mellon Fellowship in Art History

Award: $26,000, Deadline: November 4

Applicant must be a young scholar with commendable research projects related to the museum's collections, as well as distinguished visiting scholars from this country and abroad who can serve as teachers and advisors and make their expertise available to catalog and refine the collections.