[spectre] Fwd: Transart Institute Scholarships

[Chris Byrne]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Transart Institute Scholarships

15 Scholarships in International MFA Program to Promote Independent 
Thinking and Innovative Art Work

Transart Institute announced today that through a generous grant from 
Foundation M and other sources 15 scholarships amounting to $37,500 
have become available to students of their low-residency Master of Fine 
Arts program and non-degree summer workshops.

Transart Institute's low-residency MFA in New Media program - the first 
of its kind anywhere - offers an opportunity for working professionals 
to further their career with self-directed artistic study supported by 
self-chosen artist mentors and Transart Institute faculty and intensive 
summer residencies including lectures, seminars, workshops, critiques, 
exhibitions and performances. The unique transdisciplinary program 
creates the possibility of interaction and cooperation between 
performance and video artists, programmers, sculptors, vjs, curators, 
painters and game designers etc. Genres include: animation, 
architecture, cyberart, film, video, graphic design, installation, 
interactive art, interdisciplinary art, performance art, photography, 
and sound/music. The summer workshops which are an integral part of the 
MFA program are open to the public by application.

Two scholarships of $5,000 are available to candidates from East 
European and new EU-member countries and eight scholarships of $2,500 
will go to accepted students of merit and financial need. Five full 
scholarships of $750 will be given to participants of the Transart 
Institute's non-degree summer workshops which are open to all. 
Recipients will be selected on the basis of creative potential as 
exemplified by portfolio.

Scholarship application deadline for the academic year 2005/06 is May 
31st, 2005.

Further information is available at the Transart Institute's website: 
www.transartinstitute.org