Eligibility
Graduating Pinellas County high school seniors who plan to attend St. Petersburg College as full-time visual art majors for the academic year 2023-2024 and returning SPC sophomore visual art majors will be eligible. In order to be eligible for a scholarship, you must complete the following requirements:
- Complete a Visual Arts Scholarship application form.
- Submit a one-page summary explaining why you would like to receive a visual arts award.
- High school students need to obtain a copy of your high school transcript.
- High school students need to obtain a letter of recommendation from an art instructor.
- Submit the items (20 maximum pieces) mentioned above with a portfolio of your work.
• Portfolios
Only original drawings, designs, and photographs should be included in your portfolio. Drawings of photographs are not acceptable. You may use Dropbox and email the link of portfolio images to Department Chair Jonathan Barnes Barnes.Jonathan@spcollege.edu In your email provide an annotated image, list, and a summary explaining why you would like the scholarship.
Or deliver a CD or USB flash drive including PowerPoint or jpeg format with an image list
(description of works) for paintings, 3D work, and crafts that are too large for the portfolio and include them in the portfolio. Make sure the CD/ USB is labeled with your name, date, title, and medium. Your portfolio will be evaluated for drawing, design, artisanship, and originality.
• Timetable
April 19, 2023 – Deadline to submit portfolios – 2:00 pm, Wednesday
April 26, 2023 – Announcement of Scholarships (notifications are sent via email)
April 28, 2023 – Deadline to accept scholarship and pick up portfolios
• Contract
In accepting the Visual Arts Scholarship, a student will agree to enroll at St. Petersburg College
as a full-time student with a minimum of 12 credit hours as a Visual Arts major for the academic
year 2023– 2024. The student will enroll in a minimum of two studio art courses each semester
including ceramics, design, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. They will also need to follow the A.A. programs in Art (ARTBFA-TR or ARTBA-TR) as stated in the college catalog. The student will exhibit a minimum of three original works in student exhibitions, as well as actively support the Visual Arts. The one-year, partial-tuition scholarship is awarded in two payment installments (one at the beginning of both the Fall and Spring semester). The second semester installment is contingent upon the student demonstrating adequate attendance and a 3.0 grade point average. Failure to meet these requirements will cancel the scholarship. If funds are not used during the Fall term those funds do not roll over to compound to the Spring term installment.
