Graduate Arts Award

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award recognizes and rewards America's promising up-and-coming artists from lower-income backgrounds with the nation's leading graduate scholarships in the visual arts, performing arts, and creative writing.

The Graduate Arts Award

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award enables students or recent alumni with exceptional artistic or creative promise and financial need to pursue up to three years of study at an accredited graduate institution in the US or abroad.  Awards can be as much as $50,000 annually.  In 2013, the Foundation will select up to 15 recipients for this award.

The award provides funding for tuition, room and board, required fees, and books.  Scholarship amounts vary based on several factors, including cost at the institution each recipient attends and other grants and scholarships the student receives. 

SELECTION CRITERIA 

A review panel of distinguished artists, arts faculty, and university administrators select Scholars using criteria including artistic or creative merit, academic achievement, financial need, desire to engage in and contribute to the world, self-confidence, and resilience.  Applicants must be planning to pursue a career as a practicing artist to be eligible for this award. 
 

We're looking everywhere for the finest arts students in America
 

Through our Graduate Arts Award, we provide scholarships worth up to $50,000 per year to help students earn a graduate degree in the performing arts, visual arts, and creative writing.

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Questions?

Many of your questions will be answered in the Award for Graduate Studies in the Arts FAQs
 

Our Scholars

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Am I Eligible?

Review the minimum eligibility requirements for the Graduate Arts Award

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