Fund Details
Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize
Award Amount
$10,000
Competition Type
Yale

Brief Description:

The Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize shall be awarded at Commencement by the Yale School of Art to an undergraduate or graduate woman who has pursued studio art courses in the School including: graphic design, drawing, painting, photography, film-making, printmaking, sculpture, and video.

Description:

The Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize shall be awarded at Commencement by the Yale School of Art to an undergraduate or graduate woman who has pursued studio art courses in the School including: graphic design, drawing, painting, photography, film-making, printmaking, sculpture, and video. The prize is open to graduating MFA students and art major BA students. The prize seeks to encourage the woman whose whole person demonstrates a developing consciousness, a personal vision, and a spirit of search, regardless of whether she has evolved a concrete realization of that vision; a woman who shows promise of fulfilling Blair Dickinson's (Yale College Class of 1974) concept of an artist as suggested by this passage from her journel: "Ability to find spiritually rich occurrences in the world. Observer. Critic. Isolator. One who points to a moment and reveals its importance. Ability to cross over between areas of thought and to ascend and descend." 

Application Information:

Applicants must submit by April 25, 2016:
Essay/Statement-
A hard-copy one-page double-spaced 12-point typed statement of no more than 500 words describing their goals, their work, and the ideas it represents;
Portfolio-
1) an MP3 audio file of this statement that should run no more than 5 minutes; 
2) no more than 10 images of their work submitted on a Mac OS-formatted CD; and 
3) a hard-copy thumbnail inventory listing date, dimensions, medium and title, if any. 
The images should relate to the statement if possible as the statement will be played to the jury as they are shown. In addition to still images, if work is time-based, a single Quick Time video no longer than one minute in length may be included at the end in place of the tenth image.
Submit to:
Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize Committee, Yale School of Art, 1156 Chapel Street, Room 122, New Haven, CT 06520-8339.

Special Eligibility Requirements:

Enrolled as an MFA in art or an art major BA student.

Restrictions to Use of Award:

(no special restrictions entered for this award)

Links to Additional Information:

(no links entered for this award)

Contact Information:

For questions about this application, please contact Patricia DeChiara at patricia.dechiara@yale.edu
Begin Accepting Applications Date:
3/25/2024
Deadline Date (EST Time Zone) :
4/25/2024 12:00 AM