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2009 Student Scholarship - $5,000-$10,000 Fine Art Scholarship Opportunity

Two or three fine art scholarships will be awarded in May to southern California students who are high school seniors (Class of 2009). The applicants must be planning a career in the fine arts and actively pursuing college-level art education.

The Art-A-Fair Foundation is a non-profit corporation committed to arts education and is affiliated with the annual Art-A-Fair Festival in Laguna Beach. The Foundation sponsors qualified art students to share a booth at the summer-long Art-A-Fair Festival.

In the summer of 2008, our scholarship students not only received the valuable services listed below but they each sold approximately $3,000 worth of their art.

The scholarships offer the following values:

  • Exhibit booth space at the 2009 Art-A-Fair Festival
  • Full value of the students’ art work sold during the 2009 Festival.
  • For two-dimensional artists, up to $800 in framing, gicleés and art-cards
  • Gaining the commercial experience of selling their fine art.
  • Practical commercial advice from experienced mature artists.

Please encourage your most capable and creative senior students to apply. If you have further questions, please contact me by email at david@davidlinnig.com or by telephone at (949) 533-0036.

Scholarship Application Process

The two-phase selection process will involve a preliminary jury review of JPGs submitted to the Art-A-Fair Foundation at the address on the application or via email to ron@ArtAFairFoundation.org

Applicants who pass the initial screening will be invited to a physical jury process in late April or early May. All first stage applicants will receive acknowledgement and successful applicants will be given instructions for the next steps in the second stage.

Final scholarship awards will be announced no later than May 15, 2009.

Art-A-Fair Festival

This year the Art-A-Fair Festival runs from Wednesday, June 24 through Sunday, August 30, 2009. The Festival is open from 10:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. every weekday and until 10:00 P.M. on Fridays and Saturdays.

This nearly 10-week-long festival exhibits the work of 120-130 fine artists to more than 50,000 visitors every summer. The combined artists’ sales total more than $750,000 each summer.

Requirements for Successful Applicants:

All applicants must:

  • Be seniors in the high school class of 2009
  • Be residents and students in southern California
  • Be actively planning further education and a career in the fine arts
  • Be prepared to produce additional work during the Festival period
  • Provide two letters of recommendation from recent teachers

The successful applicants must agree to meet the following requirements:

  • Deliver five works (dry, ready for scanning) to a site in Mission Viejo by May 16.
  • Provide appropriate biographical information materials by May 16.
  • Attend two or more coaching sessions prior to the opening of AAF Festival to learn how best to promote and sell their own work.
  • Assist AAF Foundation staff in preparing their booth in mid-late June.
  • Spend at least ten hours per week in their booth at the Art-A-Fair Festival
  • Assist Foundation staff to remove art and tear down the booth Sept. 1-2

2009 ONLINE SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION

PRINTABLE APPLICATION

2009 Art-A-Fair Festival Calendar
On Sale Now!

Proceeds for this sale assist the Art-A-Fair Foundation in purchasing
art supplies for Southern California Schools

The Art-A-Fair Foundation is a non-profit organization working directly with the Art-A-Fair Festival of Laguna Beach, CA  to promote the arts. With the hard work of our members and the generous support of the community, the Art-A-Fair Foundation provides art education and sponsorships to Southern California, through programs such as donation of professional quality art supplies to high school art classes and student artist sponsorships, allowing high school artists to be guest exhibitors at the Art-A-Fair Festival.

Please join us in supporting the arts in Southern California. Visit the
2009 Art-A-Fair Festival and support our Silent Auction, T-Shirt Booth and Student Artist program. All sales from these programs provide funding for art education in Southern California‘s schools.

WHAT'S NEWS:

  • The Art-A-Fair Foundation contributed $1,500.00 toward the Meet the Masters program for the Tustin Unified School District.
     

  • The Art-A-Fair Foundation contributed over $1,000.00 in art supplies to an arts program for orphaned children in Ethiopia.
     

  • 2008 Student Scholarship Winners received over $10,000 supplies and grant money during their participation in the 2008 Art-A-Fair Festival. 
     

Art-A-Fair Foundation
24002 Via Fabricante #203, Mission Viejo, CA 92691
 email: ron@anzack.com
The Art-A-Fair Foundation is a 501c(3) tax-exempt organization.