Fellowships & Awards
My Brother’s Room, by 2023 George Nick Prize recipient, Carolyn Guerin, BFA Painting ’23
Apply for art, internship, and travel awards, such as the $2,000 Internship Incentive and prestigious George Nick Prize.
As a MassArt student, there are a variety of opportunities to apply for art awards, internship awards or fellowships at the College. Some awards provide relief for tuition or are awarded based on merit.
$2,000 Internship Incentive Awards
Each year, MassArt awards 40+ need-based $2,000 Internship Incentive Awards to undergraduate students to help off-set the cost of completing an internship for academic credit.
Student Awards & Fellowships
Dondis & Godine Travel Awards
The Donis A. Dondis Travel Fellowship & Morton Godine Fellowship are each one $5,000 award granted to graduating juniors or seniors to help defray the cost of traveling for the purpose of completing a well defined project having artistic merit.
Richard Aronowitz Senior Project Award
The Aronowitz Award is an $1,000 award granted to a rising senior (current junior) to support the funding of a senior project. Rising seniors from all majors are eligible to apply.
George Nick Prize
The George Nick Prize is a juried award given on the basis of merit and selected by a blind jury led by MassArt Professor Emeritus George Nick. The competition is open to all current MassArt students (undergraduate, graduate, and PCE), but it is restricted to original works done in drawing, painting, and printmaking.
The purpose of the George Nick Prize is to encourage emerging artists who create two-dimensional works — through observational abilities, drawing skills, and the understanding of the role of tone and color — that can be recognized in terms of subject and an emphasis on forms of realism. The total prize amount is approximately $12,000, to be split between the selected winners.
The Genevieve Mcmillan-Reba Stewart Traveling Fellowship
The Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Grant is awarded to a graduating senior, printmaking major at MassArt. Genevieve McMillan established a fellowship in memory of her dear friend, painter and world traveler, the late Reba Stewart. Genevieve McMillan, an intrepid traveler herself, knew that MassArt students would benefit from an opportunity to travel abroad.
Senior printmaking majors are required to prepare a complete application. Alumni are eligible to apply up to two years after they graduate.
Harris Barron Scholarship
The Harris Barron Scholarship is awarded each year to a junior student, continuing through the senior year, in the Studio for Interrelated Media Department (SIM), selected by that department’s faculty, based on exceptional and/or innovative artistic merit with consideration for financial need.
SIM Majors that have completed 3 semesters of SIM Major Studio are invited to submit the following by April 1 to the SIM department chair: Cover letter, Artist Statement, Senior Year Plan, Portfolio.
Students should contact affiliated program areas with questions about individual awards.
