Wake Forest Guild of Artists Scholarship Application

The Wake Forest Guild of Artists, the visual arts group of ARTS Wake Forest, is providing a scholarship in a one-time award of $500 to a graduating senior that will attend college for a visual art-based program or art-related program. The funds should be applied to obtaining materials for the student’s college art classes. This scholarship is reserved for current high school seniors who have been accepted to an accredited college or university, including arts-based specialty schools, 4-year, 2-year, and community colleges. Eligible candidates live in Wake Forest or the surrounding towns of Rolesville, Franklinton, or Youngsville and are attending high school in a public school, private/parochial schools, and/or home school program. Eligible candidates may also live outside of these towns if they attend a school in Wake Forest, Rolesville, Franklinton, or Youngsville. Applicants must furnish proof of acceptance to a college/university, submit a short response essay answering the questions below, and 3-5 artworks. This scholarship may be combined with tuition assistance, grants, or another scholarship.

The deadline is 11:59 pm April 25, 2025.

The scholarship recipient will receive the award in late May of 2025. They will also receive a small reception to honor their achievements and the opportunity to display their art at one of the guild’s showcases. The recipient will receive the funds in the form of a Jerry’s Artarama gift card which will be presented at their reception. The recipient of the scholarship must allow the WFGA the use of their picture/artworks and first name in fundraising and promotion of the WFGA Scholarship Fund. If under 18, written parental approval must be given.

Submit photos or videos of at least 3, but no more than 5, artworks. They should exhibit your skills as an artist and represent your most creative/original work. They may be in any of the media listed below. Please list title, size, and media for your selected works. Photos must be JPEG or PNG and videos must be MP4. If using Untitled for all, please add a different number for each artwork.

Copyright & Plagiarism - All work submitted to the scholarship must be YOUR original work, meaning you created the work based on your own ideas. By submitting work to the scholarship, you agree that you created it and did not copy it from any other person, business, school, or organization. Any work that infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights will be disqualified. Final submissions and any source derivatives are subject to all appropriate US copyright laws, with emphasis on having full permissions to use any prior works of others (photos, etc.) as a component of their submission. Credit must be given to the work of others (ex: “Photo by John Smith”).

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Submit a short response essay by telling us about your artistic journey (max 2 pages/1000 words/4000 characters including spaces):

How did you begin creating art and who/what has helped/inspired your work?

Which art degree are you pursuing and what art based career is your goal?

How will this scholarship help you achieve your goals?

Why did you select the attached artworks (photos or video)? How do they represent your artistic growth/creativity/originality?

Artwork submissions may be in the following areas:

Animation, Architecture, Ceramics, Comic Art, Computer Graphics, Design, Digital Art, Drawing, Fashion,  Film, Glass, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Design or Decorating,  Landscape Architecture, Metal Work, Mixed Media, Painting, Photograph, Printmaking, Sculpture, Web Design

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