Noah Ganun Cox is a junior majoring in Art History at New College of Florida. His winning essay is posted below. In his student statement he wrote: As a student of Art History, a museum career has been my long term academic and professional goal. Studying at New College of Florida has provided me with […]
Deyjah Stewart – Winner of Art Scholarship Fall 2020
Deyjah Stewart, is a junior at Texas Woman’s University, where she is majoring in Fine Arts In her student statement she wrote: Obtaining an art-related career has been my top goal and I feel that continuing my art education in college would help me learn the professional side of the art world, whether it’s teaching, […]
Paige Feldkamp – Winner of a $2,000 Art Scholarship for Spring 2020
Paige Feldkamp, a junior at the Maryland Institute College of Art, is pursuing a Bachelor’s of Fine Art and plans to go onto grad school. In her student statement she wrote: My love for watercolor started as a way of connecting to my grandmother, who is also a watercolorist. I am also very interested in […]
Emma Seely-Katz – Winner of an Art Scholarship for Spring 2020
Emma Seely-Katz, a senior at the Pratt Institute, won a $2,000 Art Scholarship from the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker for Spring 2020. In her student statement she wrote: I am in my last year of working towards a BFA in Pratt Institute’s sculpture department. Over the past year, I have been working on […]
Hailey Thrasher – Winner of Art History Scholarship
Hailey Thrasher is pursuing a double major in Art History and Illustration at Jacksonville University in Florida. She was awarded the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation Art History scholarship for Spring 2020. She plans to pursue a graduate degree and teach at the collegiate level. The essay question for Spring 2020 was: Frederic […]
Diana Kovalchuk – Honorable Mention Art Spring 2020
Diana Kovalchuk, a sophomore at Virginia Commonwealth University, was awarded an Honorable Mention Commendation for Art from the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation for Spring 2020. In her student statement she wrote: “I was born in Central Asia, in Kazakhstan, one of the biggest and richest countries. I moved to Northern Virginia during […]