SVA Scholarships and Awards

Offered to Design Criticism MFA students.

Henry Wolf Scholarships

Tuition for one year will be granted to an incoming student. This annual $25,000 gift honors Henry Wolf (1925–2005), the graphic designer, photographer and seminal art director of Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and Showmagazines in the 1950s and ’60s. The receiver of this award is chosen based on their submitted D-Crit application, and no application form is necessary.

Silas H. Rhodes Scholarships

Partial-tuition awards—totaling $50,000 annually—will be distributed to students entering their second year who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement during the course of their first year of study.

SVA Alumni Scholarship Awards

This interdepartmental award offers support for the direct costs of completing a final thesis project. The grant ranges from $500 to $2,000 based upon academic and artistic merit as determined by a review panel, and financial need as demonstrated by your project budget. The average award is expected to be $1,000. Students may request amounts in increments of $500 (i.e. $500, $1,000, $1,500, $2,000). In 2008, 30 awards were distributed throughout graduate and undergraduate departments, totaling $40,000.

SVA Matching Outside Scholarships

SVA will match 25% of any outside scholarship, up to $2500, that a student obtains for enrollment at SVA. This award is available to full time graduate students.

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