Art Department Scholarship

UPDATED 2024/2025

The San Diego Mesa College Fine Art Department recognizes and awards students who have demonstrated outstanding artistic achievement.

To be considered for this scholarship you:

  • Must have a 2.5 (C+) GPA
  • Must demonstrate financial need
  • Must major in one of the following areas:
    Fashion
    Interior Design
    Art Fine Art
    Multimedia
    Architecture

 


Award funds will be disbursed:
Immediate release of full award (May)

Award
$300
Deadline
02/13/2025
Supplemental Questions
  1. 2024: Your Educational Journey. Please share the following: The educational journey that led you to Mesa, including what you did before coming here and what made you decide to enroll at Mesa. Your future goals, including what you plan to do after graduation from Mesa and what your long-term career and educational goals are. Why you chose your major or field of study. You do not need to include every detail, but please try to address each part of the question (your goals, challenges overcome, and what it would mean to you). (500 words)
  2. 2024: Resiliency Question. Please share the following: How you have exhibited resiliency in your life. Specific examples of a challenge or challenges that you have overcome. How this scholarship will have a meaningful impact on your educational journey. You do not need to include every detail, but please try to address each part of the question (your goals, challenges overcome, and what it would mean to you). (500 words)
  3. 2024: Please write an essay describing what inspires you to make art (it could be an aspect of art-making, a way to communicate, exploring something that interests you, expressing an emotion).
  4. 2024: Talk about an artist that inspires you. Someone whose work you admire and follow.
  5. 2024: Please upload 5 digital images jpegs to this Art Gallery Hightail Link.
    https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/mesaartgallery

    Label your images with last name, first initial, title. Upload a list of the artworks.
     
  6. 2024: Leadership. Please describe your individual leadership style and discuss a specific incident or event where its characteristics demonstrated beneficial service to the campus or your community. Additionally, define what that service has meant to you. (500 words)
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