Wickford Art Association Scholarships

2009 Recipients

The Wickford Art Association supports local high school students who excel in art by offering scholarships to help further their education. Scholarships totaling $5000 are awarded late May each year.

2009 Scholarship Award Recipients:

The quality of the work submitted this year to the 2009 Art Scholarship Competition speaks well for the extraordinary talents of the applicants as well as for North Kingstown High School.

Kerry Manning
Accepted at
Parsons School of Design

$2,500 Scholarship Award

The committee was impressed by the painterly qualities of your landscape and still lifes as well as your use of a variety of textures in your paintings. They also felt you demonstrated proficiency in drawing and compositional skills.

Victoria Brown
Accepted at
Cleveland Institute of Art

$2,500 Scholarship Award

The committee was impressed by the expressive qualities in your portraits as well as your use of color to create mood in your landscapes. You also showed proficiency and consistent quality in a variety of media.

Our congratulations again and best wishes for your continued success!

Each scholarship winner is invited to exhibit one or two matted or framed (if possible) pieces of artwork, along with a picture of themselves and/or a brief statement, at the Wickford Art Association gallery. Artwork must be dropped off by Wed., July 8 and will be on display through August 12, 2009.

The Scholarships will be presented at the NK High School’s Honors Night, 7 p.m. on June 9, 2009.

The Wickford Art Festival is one of the main sources of funding for the scholarships. Consequently, Mark Nascimento, Wickford Art Association President would like to invite scholarship winners and their families to join us in celebrating the kick-off for the Wickford Art Festival by coming to our annual Festival Artist/Sponsor buffet reception on the Friday night before the Wickford Art Festival (July 10, 2009, 5 - 7 p.m.).

Scholarship winners also receive a Wickford Art Association one year associate membership (2009-2010). The associate membership welcomes recipients to exhibit in our "open" shows and to participate in WAA activities.

Qualifying:

Students interested in applying for the scholarship must:

be currently enrolled at the Senior level at North Kingstown High School,
be in good standing to graduate high school in the current year,
be accepted in an accredited college/university/art school program leading to a Fine Art degree (BA or BFA) for the upcoming academic year,
have a portfolio of ten or more original works, which may include painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media and photography

A copy of an acceptance letter and portfolio should be submitted along with the application before the application deadline, typically in early May. An applicant's works are judged on the basis of creativity, originality, and quality of execution. Applications are available (typically in April) at the North Kingstown High School Guidance Office.

For more information contact either:

Gail Armstrong
WAA Scholarship Committee Chairperson

or

Jean Larsen
NKHS Art Department Chairperson