RITphoto Scholarships 2018
We asked School Chair, Therese Mulligan PhD to write a post discussing the Scholarships the School offers.
Every spring semester, the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences invites students to submit portfolios for consideration of one or more of the School’s many scholarships. A Scholarship Committee, consisting of faculty drawn from all School programs, evaluates the portfolios based on the intent of individual scholarship donors. Scholarship awards are announced in early May.
Scholarships span all years of study in the School and all programs—BFA, BS and MFA.
For example, there is a special four-year scholarship to support an incoming freshman student (Elder Scholarship) and an MFA scholarship that supports a graduate student in her/his second and final year of thesis study. The majority of School scholarships provide financial help to students after their first year of study or upon completion of 30 credit hours. All scholarships are indispensable in enabling our students to follow their academic and professional path in the School and at RIT.
It is entirely due to the generous assistance of donors that the School is fortunate to offer a wide variety of scholarships, with both single-year and multiple-year aid. For our donors, the professional study of photography in its many forms has always been of paramount concern. They understand the ways in which financial assistance impacts our students’ lives in meaningful ways. The School is indebted to all its scholarship donors—past and present—for their unwavering and continued support.
Current School Scholarships include:
Howard Bingham Scholarship
Jack Renfro Scholarship
Kodak Professional Imaging Scholarship
Owen Butler Scholarship
RIT Bill Reedy Memorial Scholarship
Carter Harmon Scholarship
William A. Reedy Scholarship
Robert Elder Scholarship
John Pfahl Scholarship
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences Scholarship Gift Fund
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This spring semester (2018), current students must submit completed scholarship applications and portfolios in the Photo Office by Friday, April 6, 2018 at 4 pm. Individual scholarship requirements and application forms can be picked up in the Photo Office Gannett Hall 2121. Accepted, incoming freshman students will be notified of their eligibility for the Elder Scholarship by letter in March.
About the Author
Therese Mulligan is a professor and Administrative Chair of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. She also directs the School’s Gallery. Previously, she served for eight years as the curator of photography at George Eastman House, where she organized numerous exhibitions, as well as authored and edited articles and publications on historical and contemporary photography. Highlights of these activities include the 1999 comprehensive guide to the Museum’s photography collection entitled Photography from 1839 to Today; and the exhibition and exhibition catalogue The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: The Legacy of Georgia O’Keeffe (2000). At the Eastman House, she also curated Telling Stories: The Narrative Impulse in Contemporary American Photography; Mexicanidad: Tina Modotti and Edward Weston; and Digital Frontiers: Photography’s Future at Nash Editions. In 2002, she organized the first one-person exhibition of the work of contemporary photographers Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison. Most recently, Dr. Mulligan contributed the keynote essay to the exhibition catalogue The Collective Moment: The Photography Collection at the Norton Simon Museum (2006); organized the traveling exhibition Bernie Boston: An American Photojournalist (2006) and authored and edited the accompanying exhibition catalogue. She continues to contribute essays and articles to various publications and journals.