Graduate Scholarships
ScholarshipUniverse – MU’s new interactive scholarship portal. Please log in with your University pawprint & password and answer a series of questions to determine what School of Visual Studies scholarships you’re eligible for. You can then fill out the internal application & upload any required documents & images. Deadline to be announced.
School of Visual Studies Scholarships
Donald L. Bartlett Scholarship Fund
One or more annual awards shall be made to full-time graduate sculpture students who are studying in any three-dimensional focus area.
Ann Stevens Hoffman Memorial Scholarship
One or more annual awards shall be made to a female student in the MFA Program in the School of Visual Studies. Selected recipients shall have a demonstrated financial need, shall be talented and shall have a specialty of photography, printmaking, or ceramics.
Dorothy L. Rollins Memorial Scholarship
Graduate students in Painting and/or Drawing. Students must have completed at least 9 semester hours. For the 2022-2023 academic year, one award will be given to the eligible student who is most outstanding in the areas of Painting and/or Drawing.
Verna Wulfekammer Art Doctoral Fellowship
One or more awards shall be given to an MFA student with a concentration study in Fibers.
Students may apply for more than one scholarship or award. Only one application form and one portfolio are necessary to apply for multiple awards. Please list all scholarships you’re applying for on the application form.
PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENTS:
Compile a portfolio of recent work in a single PDF Document, not to exceed 12 MB. Include title, materials, dimensions, run-time (if applicable), and year for each piece. All work must have been made as a student at MU. Name Portfolio file: Lastname_Firstname_SVS Scholarship
Images: 5-10 (including details shots).Images should be clear, high-resolution photographs.
Neutral background or no background (cropped to edge). Each image file (JPEG, JPG) should be edited to be approximately 1200 pixels on the longest side or no larger than 1 MB each.
Video: 3-5 samples of video work. Combined run time not to exceed 5 min. In addition to information about the video work, please include link to web-hosted video files (Vimeo, Youtube, etc) in the PDF.
Images & Video: If submitting a combination of still images and video, include up to 5 images and up to 2 minutes of video. In addition to information about the video work, please include link to web-hosted video files (Vimeo, Youtube, etc) in the PDF. Deadline to apply - March 1, 2025
SCHOLARSHIP QUESTIONS:
Create a PDF with responses to these questions. [Limit of 200 words per question.]
- Portfolio Statement: Discuss the processes, themes, materials, and concepts of the artworks submitted in your Portfolio. Are there any common ideas or priorities? What media and materials did you use and why? What do you consider the strongest piece— why?
- Personal Statement: Describe your motivations and influences—both internal and external—for your creative work. Consider these questions: How do your experiences and perspective inform why and how you make? How do you engage your community? What goals do you have for yourself and your work?
- Impact Statement: How would receiving a scholarship help you achieve your goals or support your education? (Optional: if you have faced any personal or financial obstacles that you would like to address, please share here.)
- If applying for the "Stealey Scholarship," a list of arts community contributions will be required as a separate file