FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:
Susana Weymouth
813-221-2787
susanaweymouth@tbbca.org
TBBCA encourages students to gather together their application, recommendation letters, artist statement, work samples, and compete for $15,000+ in scholarships
TAMPA, Fla. (December 6, 2018) – Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture & the Arts (TBBCA) is proud to continue to financially support arts education and announces The 2018 Charlie Hounchell Art Stars Scholarships Program Call for Applicants is now open.
This cornerstone TBBCA program in support of arts education and young artists and performers, is named in honor of TBBCA Past President, the late Charlie Hounchell, who was the program’s founder and champion. Each year, TBBCA awards six or more competitive talent and merit based fine and performing arts scholarships of $2500 each in Theatre, Instrumental Music, Vocal Music, Dance, Literary Arts, and Visual Arts, to Tampa Bay area high school juniors and seniors, helping them to fund their higher education in the arts. Since 2008, TBBCA has awarded over $155,000, providing financial assistance for higher education tuition to more than 60 Tampa Bay area students who are some of the most promising and talented young artists and performers in the nation.
Scholarship awards are applied directly towards tuition expenses at the winner’s selected college, university or professional training program. Winners will be selected based on talent and merit by a panel of judges who are experts in their respective fields. For information on 2017 judges and CHASS recipients, see https://www.tbbca.org/programs-events/art-stars-scholarships/ Past winners have attended prestigious institutions, including The Juilliard School, Yale, The Eastman School of Music, The University of Miami Frost School of Music, Belmont University, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Tufts, Savannah College of Art & Design, Penn State, Northwestern, the University of South Florida, the University of Tampa, Florida State University, University of Florida, and others.
The guidelines and requirements with the 2018 application form are posted and downloadable on TBBCA website https://www.tbbca.org/programs-events/art-stars-scholarships/ or contact TBBCA Executive Director Susana Weymouth at susanaweymouth@tbbca.org with any questions or to receive an application via email. There is no fee to apply. Qualified students may apply in one, more, or all disciplines, via separate applications for each category. A completed packet for each application must be mailed to TBBCA at P.O. Box 559, Tampa, FL 33601, by the deadline of Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. TBBCA will hold an awards ceremony for the 2018 winners in May.
About TBBCA
Tampa Bay BCA is a non-profit 501 (c) (3), one of 11 national Business Committees for the Arts, member of the private sector network and pARTnership movement of Americans for the Arts. For over 28 years, TBBCA has united businesses in support of arts education, and culture and the arts in our community, based on the philosophy that ‘the arts are good for business, and business is good for the arts.’ TBBCA pARTnerships support programs including free Cultural Encounters, Pop-Up Prose and Poetry, TBBCA Chalk Walks, Culturepreneur Leadership Intern Program, Call to Artists, and others. The Charlie Hounchell Art Stars Scholarships – Individual scholarship naming rights and sponsorships are available. For more information, or to join the TBBCA pARTnership Movement of business leaders, or to donate online to The Charlie Hounchell Art Stars Scholarships contact TBBCA Executive Director Susana Weymouth at 813-221-2787 or email susanaweymouth@tbbca.org.