Scholarships for Sacramento State Art Students

The Art Department uses an annual art and art history competition to distribute scholarship funds to  undergraduate and graduate students at Sacramento State. Each Fall, students are invited to enter the Awards Show competition, with applications due during final exam week, but the actual art and art history entries always are due the following January (art history essays are due in mid-January; works of art are due during the first week of the Spring semester, which usually is the last week of January). Any matriculated and Open University student who was enrolled in Art courses at Sacramento State during that academic year may enter the competition for inclusion in  the annual Awards Show. To be eligible for a scholarship award, a student must be matriculated in a degree program and enrolled in courses at Sacramento State during the semester of the Awards Show. Other restrictions also may apply (see below).

There are six award categories in studio art:

Undergraduate: Undergraduate Certificate Award (for Open University students and international students who are not eligible for scholarship awards), R. W. Witt Scholarship Award in Studio Art (for students with a declared minor or major in Art or Photography), the Frederick M. Peyser, Sr. Prize in Studio Art (for any Sacramento State undergraduate), and the University Art Product Award (for any undergraduate student with a declared major in Art and a 3.0 GPA). Witt Awards and University Art Product Awards are given for works of art in any medium; the Peyser Prize is for works of art in two dimensions only (including painting, photography, printmaking, mixed media on paper, and new media in two dimensions, such as imaging, electronic art, and video).

Graduate: Graduate Certificate Award (for Open University students, international students, unclassified graduate students, and graduate students who are not in the MA program in Studio Art) and the Increase Robinson Memorial Fellowship Award (for any classified graduate student in Studio Art). Entries may be in any medium.

There is also one award category in art history:
Any undergraduate or graduate student who has taken upper division or graduate-level art history courses, and who is eligible for scholarship awards, may compete for the R. W. Witt Scholarship Award in Art History.

Application procedures:
Application forms and instructions are available in the Art Department office (Kadema 185) in November.