GRANTS COMPETITION 2025

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The Art Students League of New York is delighted to offer Grant opportunities through the annual Merit Competition. Unless otherwise stated, Grants include a cash award plus tuition for one full-time class for the next Regular Session (September 2025-May 2026) and are open only to League members.  

GRANTS ELIGIBILITY 

  • League membership in good standing at time of application (member status may not be Lapsed or Dropped). The Annual Registration Fee paid by all League students who take classes is not a membership fee and does not constitute League membership. For further information regarding membership, please click here. For further information regarding membership status, please click here. 
  • Candidates must be enrolled in class(es) at the time of application and competition. 
  • Eligibility for grants is keyed to registration hours AND areas of concentration. For example, students who have been registered full-time in only a sculpture class will not be eligible for painting grants. Please see Available Grants listing for complete details. 
  • At the time of application candidates must have completed a minimum of 1,120 cumulative class hours (full-time and/or part-time, excluding workshops), of which 420 class hours must be in the current Regular Session (September 2024 – May 2025). Read more about this requirement here under the Grants Eligibility and Class Hours heading.
  • Past recipients of an individual grant may not reapply for the same grant (exception: Nessa Cohen Grant) but may apply for other grants (based on eligibility). 
  • International students must have the appropriate visa status allowing full-time study at the time of application and for the 2025/26 Regular Session. 
  • Temporary international visitors to the United States, regardless of membership status, are not eligible for the grant competition.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

APPLICATION DUE DATE: Sunday, April 27, 2025 

  • Required fields are marked with a red asterisk (*)
  • Email Address Validation is required. You will receive an email from Submittable asking you to confirm your email address.
  • Completed and signed application form. (Note: applicants to the McDowell Travel Grant will be asked to submit a notarized affidavit.)
  • Eligible students may submit multiple applications for different grant categories (see below), each with different artworks. NOTE: Eligibility is based on the types of classes taken and the number of hours in each category.

 GRANT APPLICATION CATEGORIES

  1. Gonzalez-Edwards Travel Grant; Kuniyoshi Award for Painting
  2. McDowell Travel Grant (open to all categories)
  3. Figure Painting Grants (Lysun, Mason)
  4. Abstract Painting/Mixed Media Grant (Sherwood); Bruce Dorfman Grant for Assemblage & Mixed Media
  5. Nessa Cohen Grant for Sculpture; Bassen Grant for figure sculpture in clay
  6. Nessa Cohen Grant for Works on Paper [printmaking, drawing, watercolor], Kuniyoshi Award for Printmaking

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS 

  • Submit three (3) digital images of artwork to be judged
  • Artworks in multiple panels (diptych, triptych) must be submitted as single image files
  • Sculpture may be photographed from multiple angles, but must be submitted as a single image file.
  • Save each file in JPEG format, no larger than 2 MB (megabytes).


 

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