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Scholarships and Awards

For questions about specific scholarships or awards, please contact the Fine Arts Center main office at the phone number listed below.

Visual Arts Sea Grant
The Visual Arts Sea Grant Program of Rhode Island was established in 1988 to encourage New England professional visual artists to address the issue of the environment of the ocean and its coastal communities. Grants are intended to financially assist individuals and/or collaborating artists whose works are related to themes of the marine environment. Curatorial proposals will be considered. The grants, up to $2,000, will be awarded annually. Previous recipients of Sea Grant awards are not eligible for 5 years. Individuals enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students are not eligible. Proposals will be reviewed by a panel of RI professionals in the visual arts.

Criteria

  • Maximum of ten .jpeg images in RGB format approximately 1024 pixels wide on a CD or;
  • Maximum of ten 35mm slides clearly labeled with title and professionally prepared.

  • Artist's current resume and brief statement, outlining the objective of the proposal, relevance of the work to ocean environments, and the relationship of the proposal to past work.
  • A list of images including name, title, date, medium, dimensions, and file name.
  • A self-addressed, stamped envelope for the return of slides and materials.
  • Itemized budget including: supplies, services and support personnel.

Jesse M. Simmons Memorial Scholarship in Art
Through the URI Foundation and the estate of Antoinette H. Simmons, the department awards scholarships to incoming and current students showing talent in painting and having financial need. Eligibility: A promising freshman or incoming studio major in painting who shows exceptional merit; outstanding artistic achievement and promise in painting for a sophomore or junior art major. The awards committee consists of three faculty members from any of the following areas: painting, drawing, printmaking, film, photography, and digital art. Recipients may not receive an award more than twice in a three year period.

Criteria

  • Outstanding high school record or;
  • GPA of 3.0 in studio art courses for two semesters prior to the period of the award.
  • Must have financial need as identified by the University Financial Aid office and;
  • Must plan to remain an art major at the University of Rhode Island.

David Ketner Award
David Ketner taught drawing and painting at URI and died in 1986. A fund was established in his memory to give an annual cash award to a promising junior studio major. With the generous help of alumni and friends we have been able to give awards every year to one or two students during the awards ceremony at the Annual Student Exhibition.

Criteria

  • Must enter work in the Annual Student Exhibition.
  • Two outside jurors select the winning work along with fifteen Excellence Awards.


Visiting Artists

The Italo Scanga Visiting Artist Fund was established with a donation from A&AH alumna Katherine Scanga and the Italo Scanga Foundation. Italo Scanga was an internationally renowned sculptor who taught at the University of Rhode Island.

Hasan Elahi | 2009
Sandro Del Rosario | 2009
Albert Chong | 2008
Nina Katchadourian | 2007
Holly Laws | 2007
Gregory Coates | 2006
Kurt Ralske | 2006