MARIA BUENO of Goodyear, Arizona is majoring in Painting at Arizona State University. She was awarded one of the two Fine Arts Scholarships in the Spring 2019 Scholarship Program after submitting her watercolor “St. Anne’s Church in Molo, Illoilo City, Philippines”. Maria’s goal is to work as a freelance Illustrator in magazines, newspapers, and books. In […]
Winner Art History/Museum Studies Spring 2019 Scholarship Program: Ann Hewitt
ANN HEWITT of Fairfield, Massachusetts is majoring in Museum Studies, Anthropology, and Ancient Studies at Mt Holyoke College in Massachusetts. She is pursuing a Museum Nexus as well as as a double major in Ancient Studies (an interdepartmental major between Art History, Classics and History departments) and Anthropology. She wrote: “This semester thanks to the Laurel […]
Winner Spring 2019 Fine Arts Scholarship: Samantha Packer
SAMANTHA PACKER of Pringle, Pennsylvania, is majoring in Fine Arts and Art History at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Her watercolor ” Noah” won one of the two Fine Arts Scholarships in the Spring 2019 Scholarship Program. She wrote in her student statement: As a dual major in Fine Arts and Art History, I am interested in […]
Honorable Mention Fine Art Spring 2019 Scholarship Program: Allison Boyle
Both of the students receiving an honorable mention commendation in the Spring 2019 Fine Arts Scholarship program are studying Illustration at Eileen Monaghan Whitaker’s alma mater – Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. ALLISON BOYLE of Stow, Massachusetts is majoring in Illustration at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts. She received an Honorable […]
Honorable Mention Art History/Museum Studies Spring 2019 Scholarship Program – Sidney Petrunich
SIDNEY PETRUNICH of Brownsburg, Indiana received honorable mention in the Art History/Museum Studies category of the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation Scholarship Program. She is a student majoring in Art History at Herron School of Art & Design in Indianapolis, Indiana. Applicants wrote essays in response to the following statement: During their extensive travels […]
Honorable Mention Fine Art Spring 2019 Scholarship Program: Elizabeth Ogle
Both of the students receiving an honorable mention commendation in the Spring 2019 Fine Arts Scholarship program are studying Illustration at Eileen Monaghan Whitaker’s alma mater – Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. “The Writer’s Boudoir” 2018 © Elisabeth Ogle 10×20 inches Watercolor ELIZABETH OGLE of Boston, Massachusetts was honored for her watercolor “The […]
Jessica Worthey receives an Honorable Mention Commendation in the Whitaker Foundation Fall 2018 Art History Scholarship program
Jessica Worthey, a student at Tarrant County College, was awarded an Honorable Mention commendation for her essay in the Whitaker Foundation Art History Fall 2018 Scholarship Program. Her hometown is Fort Worth, Texas. The essay writer was asked to describe the differences in the way watercolor artists Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker approached architecture. […]
Hailey Thrasher receives Honorable Mention for her essay in the Whitaker Foundation Fall 2018 Scholarship program
Hailey Thrasher, a student at Jacksonville University, was awarded an Honorable Mention commendation for her essay in the Whitaker Foundation Art History Fall 2018 Scholarship Program. Her hometown is Anderson, South Carolina. The essay writer was asked to describe the differences in the way watercolor artists Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker approached architecture. The […]
Logan Magee receives Honorable Mention for Whitaker Art Foundation 2018 Fall Scholarship program
Logan Magee, a student at The New School, has received an Honorable Mention Commendation from the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Fine Art Scholarship program for her watercolors, Celestial Body 1 and Celestial Body 2. Logan, whose hometown is New Orleans, Louisiana won a $2,000 Whitaker Foundation scholarship in 2017. In her artist statement she […]
Lauren Taylor Coney receives Honorable Mention in Whitaker Foundation Fall 2018 Fine Art Scholarship Program
Lauren Taylor Coney, a student at Ringling College of Art and Design, received an Honorable Mention Commendation from the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Fine Art Scholarship program for her watercolor, Tea House. Her hometown is Newburgh, Indiana. In her artist statement she wrote: I attend Ringling College of Art and Design in hopes […]