Scholarships.com offers an annual scholarship in a variety of fields under their Area of Study College Scholarships. Unlike other scholarships for artists, scholarships.com does not define the word "art," offering a scholarship of $1,000 to a high school senior or undergraduate student who is majoring in or intending to major in the arts.
Eligible students should also be U.S. citizens and need to register with scholarships.com. After doing so, your application will be automatically submitted once you select the area of study you plan to pursue. The deadlines for submission vary based on field of study.
Offered quarterly, the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest offers a $1,500 prize each quarter and is open to new and amateur artists who have not been professionally published. The contest also offers prizes of outright cash grants worth $500 and trophies to three co-winners. There is no entry fee and artists retain all rights to their work. Artists may submit one set of three illustrations per quarter. The quarterly deadlines are Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31 and June 30.
Quarterly winners are subsequently placed into an annual competition for an additional $5,000. For the annual contest, artists are furnished with the winning story of the L. Ron Hubbard companion contest, the Writers of the Future Contest, and asked to submit an illustration for it.
According to the website, the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest was started in 1988 as a way to keep alive Hubbard's belief that the relationship between the written word and the illustrator's art was essential.
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation sponsors a scholarship of $2,500 to be used toward tuition for summer art and writing programs. Eligible students must be in grades 7 through 11 and come from a household earning less than $40,000 a year. Eligible students must also earn regional Gold Key recognition in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Students are asked to write an essay on their approach to art or writing, and must submit their Gold Key award-winning work as well as another work of which they are proud, and a work in progress.
Among the summer programs that students may attend are the University of Virginia Young Writers Workshop in Poetry, a photography program at the InnerSpark Summer School for the Arts in California, and a playwriting and screenwriting workshop at the Writopia Lab writing community in New York City.
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards begin in October, with students submitting their required work from November through January. Gold Key winning student are notified in January and may then submit their work to the Alliance for Young Artist and Writers Award.