Scholarships

Scholarship Application Form

Split Rock offers a number of scholarships to help motivated, committed artists attend the program. Last year, five percent of Split Rock participants received a scholarship. These awards not only help a wide range of artists and writers attend Split Rock, they also ensure that the program remains both excellent and accessible.

Applications must be postmarked no later than May 5, 2008.

Art Educators of Minnesota Scholarship
The College of Continuing Education offers one full-tuition scholarship for a current member of the Art Educators of Minnesota (AEM) to take a visual art workshop. Founded in 1950, AEM is a professional organization dedicated to promoting and advocating for quality art education for all learners, and providing professional growth opportunities for Minnesota’s art educators.

The Charlene Burningham Scholarship Fund
This scholarship was established in 1989 to honor Minnesota fiber artist Charlene Burningham for contributions to her field, both as an artist and educator. Its purpose is to help aspiring design artists attend Split Rock. In 1992, the fund became endowed through a generous contribution by Charlene Burningham. Now an energetic octogenarian, Mrs. Burningham is an active member of the Twin Cities textile community.

The Andrea Gilats Scholarship
Established in 2007, this scholarship honors the leadership, dedication, and vision of Split Rock's co-founder and former program director of more than 20 years, Andrea Gilats. This need- and merit-based scholarship enables a wide range of participants to attend Split Rock, and in so doing, underscores Gilats' belief that "diverse choices and abundance possibilities are what make creativity thrive."

The Ingrid Lenz Harrison Scholarship for Continuing Education
Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison established this scholarship in 2001 to encourage women with a significant gap in their education to participate in lifelong learning through College of Continuing Education classes, courses, and programs. The scholarship reflects Ingrid Lenz Harrison's strong belief in the transformative power of education and the arts.

Gilford and Esther Remington Scholarship
Esther Remington established this scholarhip in 1974 as a memorial to her husband Gilford, a noted University professor and Director of Extension. After Esther's death in 2000, Remington's daughter, G. Jean Berman, contributed to the scholarship in memory of both her parents. Preference is given to students studying art, history, education, and media at the Twin Cities and Duluth campuses.

Elizabeth Talford Scott Scholarship for African American Artists
This scholarship is funded by internationally renowned bead artist Joyce J. Scott, and named in honor of her mother, Elizabeth Talford Scott, an eminent American quilt artist. The scholarship provides full tuition and on-campus housing to a motivated, committed African American artist, writer, or designer from anywhere in the United States.

Split Rock Arts Program Participation Fund
This fund offers scholarships that enable a wide range of artists and writers to attend Split Rock. It is supported by donations from those past, present, and future participants, artist-instructors, friends, and staff, who want to insure that Split Rock remains a program of excellence and accessibility.

Eligibility
You are eligible to apply if you plan to take any Split Rock workshop and if you did not receive a scholarship from Split Rock in 2007. Participants need not be enrolled a degree program at the University of Minnesota nor a resident of Minnesota. Scholarships apply to both noncredit and credit registration.

How to Apply
Mail or deliver the items listed below to: Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota, 360 Coffey Hall, 1420 Eckles Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108-6084.

1. Completed Split Rock Arts Program registration form. The only items you need not include are the $40 registration fee and tuition payment or credit card authorization.* Applications that do not include a completed registration form, including indication of noncredit, undergrad credit, or grad credit, will not be considered.

2. Completed scholarship form

3. Six color reproductions of your visual work (submitted as slides, photographs, or digital files), which will be returned, or no more than ten pages of your writing, which will not be returned

You may also enclose any supporting materials you would like the committee to consider.

*Note: If you elect to enclose a tuition payment with your scholarship application in order to hold a place in your chosen workshop, your payment will be processed when it is received. If you are not awarded a scholarship and choose to withdraw from the workshop, you will be charged a withdrawal fee according to the Split Rock withdrawal policy.

Criteria for Selection
Scholarships are awarded based on merit and financial need. Split Rock defines merit as demonstrated experience in an art form related to your chosen workshop. Evidence of talent and commitment is based on answers to the application questions, samples of creative work, and other supporting materials. Applications that do not include creative-work samples will not be considered.

Split Rock defines financial need as a level of demonstrated need that would make it impossible for someone to attend Split Rock without a scholarship. Other forms of need, including whether or not you have had access to the kinds of educational opportunities that Split Rock offers, are also considered.

Review Process
Scholarship applications and supporting materials are reviewed by the Split Rock Arts Program’s professional staff. If you qualify based on merit, your financial need will be reviewed by College of Continuing Education financial aid advisers. The review is conducted in accordance with special guidelines developed for assessing the financial needs of adult learners. Award amounts are based upon level of need and the availability of funds.

Awards
Scholarships may be used only for workshop tuition, on-campus housing in the Twin Cities, and room and meals at the Cloquet Forestry Center. No cash awards are made. If you are awarded a scholarship and the award does not cover the full cost of your workshop, you will receive an invoice for any balance due along with your award letter.

Split Rock must receive your payment or credit card authorization by the date shown on the invoice (approximately one week after the award letter is mailed) or you may forfeit your scholarship and place in your chosen workshop.

If a scholarship award is received, you will be asked to write a letter of acknowledgement to the donor.

Financial Resources Wizard
As an additional resource, participants may want to use the College of Continuing Education’s Financial Resources Wizard, an interactive tool that helps participants identify appropriate financial aid and other tuition payment options. Resources may include grants, scholarships, loans, employer tuition benefits, funding from government agencies, federal education tax credits and deductions, discounts, credit card payment, and more. To use the Wizard, visit the CCE Financial Aid web site.

Scholarship Thanks
The Split Rock Arts Program is grateful to those individuals and businesses who have enthusiastically supported Split Rock by contributing to its scholarship funds during the past calendar year. Donor support, at any level, is crucial to helping Split Rock provide the highest quality educational experience to committed writers, artists, and designers.

Please consider making a tax-deductible gift to any of Split Rock’s scholarship funds. Checks may be made payable to the University of Minnesota Foundation and be mailed to: Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota, 360 Coffey Hall, 1420 Eckles Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108-6084.