Visual Arts Scholarships

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Scholarships open to students interesting in and/or majoring in fields related to art and design, including art, graphic design, and photography.

Bulkofficesupply.com Scholarship
Sponsor: Bulkofficesupply.com
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: February 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors and college Freshmen and Sophomores in the United States. Applicant must have an interest in teaching, art or owning their own business.

John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship
Sponsor: National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: February 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to U.S. citizens between the ages of 18 and 35 years old. Applicant must be pursuing a profession in visual arts and must show an affinity with the classical tradition of Western culture.

Winston Two-Dimensional Art Scholarships
Sponsor: National Society of Arts and Letters
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: February 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to U.S. citizens between the ages of 16 and 22 years of age. Applicant must submit five (5) art works done within the past two years. Scholarship funds are for private study, special training or personal advancement in the applicant’s chosen art field – funds cannot be used for college tuition, housing or travel.

Archibald Rutledge Scholarship Program
Sponsor: South Carolina Department of Education
Amount: $2,000.00
Closing Date: February 2, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors in South Carolina with talent in creative writing, dance, music, theatre, or visual arts.

Arts for Life Scholarship
Sponsor: Arts For Life!
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: February 9, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to Florida high school seniors who demonstrate academic and artistic excellence in creative writing, dance, drama, music, or visual arts.

NEWH BERMANFALK Hospitality Design Scholarship
Sponsor: BERMANFALK
Amount: $7,500.00
Closing Date: February 13, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to current interior design students (with a hospitality career focus).

NEWH Harvey Nudelman Scholarship
Sponsor: NEWH – The Hospitality Industry Network | Fabricut Contract
Amount: $7,500.00
Closing Date: February 13, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to students actively enrolled in college with an interior design major with a career objective in the hospitality industry.

Illustrators of the Future Contest
Sponsor: L. Ron Hubbard Library
Amount: $500.00
Closing Date: March 31, 2026
Description: Contest is open to new and amateur artists who have not been professionally published and paid for more than three black-and-white story illustrations, or more than one process-color painting, in media distributed broadly to the general public.

art + biz Scholarship
Sponsor: Barrel and Flow Fest
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: Rolling
Description: Scholarship is open to residents of Western Pennsylvania who identify as Black or African American, Indigenous, or as a Person of Color. Applicant must be currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in a visual arts, performing arts, or culinary arts.