Murphy & Cadogan awards for Visual Arts MFAs

Purpose: The Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowships in the Fine Arts and the Edwin Anthony and Adelaine Bourdeaux Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts are multiple awards available to Bay Area fine arts MFA students to underwrite tuition for continued academic study.

Amount: $3,500 grant award towards tuition, and winners will be invited to be part of an exhibit at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in the fall and to the Arts Award Celebration at the San Francisco Foundation on November 5, 2009.

Eligibility:

• MFA students
• Must have completed at least one semester of coursework as of January 1, 2009.
• Must be continuously enrolled in the same program and in good standing through December 31, 2009.
• This award is not for students currently in the last year of their MFA studies.
• Previous winners of Murphy or Cadogan Fellowships may not apply again.
• Artwork submitted must have been completed by the student in the past two years, since April 1, 2007.
• Work must be created by a sole applicant; collaborations are not accepted.

Announcements will be made by June 30th.

For full Fellowship information and an application, please visit The San Francisco Foundation website