scholarships

How to Apply for Scholarships

Kathryn Karipides Scholarship in Modern DancE
If you have completed undergraduate work and have been accepted into a graduate program in Dance or are already in a graduate dance program having completed the first year of study, you are eligible for a scholarship in a summer Modern Dance program of your choice.

In the spring of 2009, The Cleveland Arts Prize will award the Kathryn Karipides Scholarship in Modern Dance. This scholarship opportunity is open to dance students nationally.

Requirements include an essay describing planned program of study, two letters of recommendation, undergraduate transcript (a 3.5 GPA is required), completed application form.

click here to apply for The Kathryn Karipides Scholarship

John Paul Miller Scholarship in the Visual Arts
A fifth year student at the Cleveland Institute of Art will be selected by the scholarship committee at the Cleveland Institute of Art for the John Paul Miller Scholarship in the Visual Arts.

Cleveland Arts Prize Profile of Kathryn Karipides The Kathryn Karipides Scholarship, open to students nationally, was designed to assist students between undergraduate and graduate school with opportunities for summer dance study. Ms. Karipides spent three summers at Connecticut College, studying intensively with some of the greatest modern dance artists of the time: Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Lucas Hoving, Jose Limon, and Louis Horst, and remembers those summers as "transformative" times in her artistic development. It was her wish to help aspiring dancers in this way. to read more about Kathryn Karipides click here.

Cleveland Arts Prize Profile of John Paul Miller The first Cleveland Arts Prize to be awarded in the visual arts was given to a man who had set out to be a painter, but instead made an international reputation in a very different art form: gold jewelry. In 1961, the same year John Paul Miller was awarded the arts prize, examples of his work were included in an international exhibition at London's Goldsmiths Hall. to read more about John Paul Miller click here

Donor Information

The board and staff of the Cleveland Arts Prize are grateful to the many generous contributors who have made these scholarships possible. Kathryn Karipides and John Paul Miller are Cleveland treasures who have inspired countless others to embrace their passionate love of the arts. It is impossible to calculate the number of young lives they have positively shaped over their careers.