Carlos G. Gómez Advanced Painter's Scholarship

Specified Award Criteria:

The scholarship is open to all students who are a declared art major.
A student must be a U.S. citizen, resident alien or international student.
A student must enroll for a minimum of 12 credit hours and take at least one painting course as part of the 12 hours.
The scholarship is for $500.00, awarded once during a semester.
The scholarship is renewable upon successful completion of each semester of course work. However, the student must reapply for a successive year's award.
There is a specified GPA minimum of 3.5.
The student chosen for the Carlos G. Gómez Advanced Painter's Scholarship should be someone who has demonstrated a commitment to painting and is a painting major only.
The scholarship is open to upper division art (painting) majors only.

The committee will be called Carlos G. Gómez Advanced Painter's Scholarship Committee, which will be compromised of members of the 2-D visual art faculty and will award the scholarship based on the specified criteria—a portfolio of previous painting, a letter stating why one is worthy of the award and proof of GPA.
The committee will be chaired by the painting head that will be responsible for tracking the recipient.
Only one scholarship per year will be awarded. A current recipient must reapply each year through a completive process and satisfy the specified criteria again.

Student must submit a portfolio to the chair of the committee, who will then share it with the committee.
The portfolio should contain 10 samples of the student’s artwork (in painting), a bio, and a statement explaining why he or she is deserving of the scholarship.
Upon selection the student will then be sent to the appropriate university department for processing.
The committee will have the option of no award if it deems that submissions are not up to standards.