Fellowships for Creative and Performing Arts Graduates
Available Fellowships by Granting Agency
Fulbright U.S. Student Program
English Teaching Assistantships (ETA)
The ETA program allows students to travel overseas and be placed in a classroom environment to supplement English language instruction and provide native speaker experience. The U.S. Fulbright Program has sent students to over 160 different countries and is open to students of all majors/backgrounds. Students must have a Bachelor's degree by the time of the experience abroad.
Study/Research Awards
Candidates must design a specific proposal for a research project or graduate program abroad. Study/Research Awards are available in 140 different countries around the world; programs and requirements will vary based on the country of interest. Applicants must have a Bachelor's degree by the time of the experience.
MacDowell Colony Residences
MacDowell Fellowship
The MacDowell Colony provides creative artists with time and seclusion to work and enjoy the experience of living in a community of gifted artists. Residences of up to two months are available. No residency fees are charged; grants for travel are awarded based on financial need. Disciplines include architecture and landscape architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts.
Deadline for Fall/Winter season is February 10 and deadline for Spring/Summer season is September 10.
Marshall Scholarship Program
Marshall Scholarship
One of the most prestigious scholarships, the Marshall is awarded to top American students for 2-3 years of graduate study in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). The competition is open to students in all fields of study.
Rhodes Trust
Rhodes Scholarship
The best known of the prestigious scholarships, the Rhodes Scholarship is awarded to 32 top American students for 2-3 years of graduate study at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The competition is open to students in all fields of study. Applicants are chosen for their academic achievements as well as "their character, commitment to others and to the common good, and for their potential for leadership in whatever domains their careers may lead."
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Residency Program for Emerging Visual Artists
Skowhegan offers an intensive 9-week summer residency program for gifted and diverse visual artists who have demonstrated a commitment to art-making and inquiry to create the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction, and growth. Fellowships are available to cover tuition, room and board. Applicants must be 21 before the session begins.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Nicholl Fellowships are intended to identify and encourage talented emerging screenwriters. Applicants can submit scripts for consideration and recipients are expected to complete at least one original feature film screenplay during the year of the award.