Eligibility

The Scholarship Program is an annual competition for high school students seeking funding to attend summer intensive arts programs. Applicants must demonstrate exceptional talent, dedication, and a strong commitment to personal artistic growth.

The Scholarship Program focuses on the Literary Arts, Media Arts (Animation, Anime, Film), Performing Arts (Dance, Instrumental, Singing, Theatre) and the Visual Arts (Architecture, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design, Photography). Scholarship recipients can apply Foundation funds to any recognized pre-college or arts education program.

Funds awarded will be sent directly to the arts education program designated by the student. The Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship cannot be used for currently attended programs, previously attended programs, private instruction, secondary school or college tuition, or travel expenses. Past Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship recipients are not eligible to apply again.

Application Requirements

The application period for 2024 Scholarships will be open from October 2nd, 2023 through January 5th, 2024. In order to move onto the Application, the applicant must submit the Registration Form no later than midnight on Thursday, November 30, 2023.

Please read the requirements below and scroll down to the bottom of the page for a link to begin your application.

1. Letter of Recommendation

1. Recommender:  The recommender is a person whom the applicant chooses to endorse their candidacy for the Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship and to write a letter of recommendation (250 words or less). The recommender cannot be the instructor of the program to which the scholarship funds are paid. The recommender can be a teacher, advisor, or other adult mentor outside the applicant’s family. The applicant must provide the recommender’s name and email address and a request for the letter of recommendation will be sent directly from the Foundation.

2. Artistic Statement (250-500 words in PDF format)

Your Personal Artistic Statement allows the Foundation judges to learn about you as a person and to better appreciate you as the young artist whose accomplishments are presented in your work samples. It should reveal what you are passionate about and what personally motivates you to be an artist. How long have you been developing your creative talent and what has helped you develop? How do you think the summer study program you are applying for will help advance your art? These are some of the questions you might consider answering in your artistic statement. Remember most of all that it is your statement, it is about who you are and what makes you an artist.

3. Supplemental Material

1. Personal Email Account: The applicant must have an active, personal email account (not a parent’s or recommender’s). This is our only way of communicating with the applicant. If we attempt to contact the applicant and the applicant does not respond within the time period specified on the communication, the application will be withdrawn. The applicant must keep the Anthony Quinn Foundation informed of any changes to their personal email address. Please note: If you use your school email address, our confirmation email could possibly end up in your spam folder. Please make sure to add the Anthony Quinn Foundation to your "safe senders" list.

2. Parent/Guardian Form: The applicant must provide us with the name and email address of your parent or guardian, if you are less than 18 years of age.

3. Work Samples:

   1. Literary Arts: Applicants must submit a total of three (3) PDF writing samples that characterize your work and best display your talents and abilities. Writing samples are limited to one page each, and therefore may be excerpts from a longer work. The samples should express both technique and artistry and your joy and commitment to Literary Arts.

   2. Media Arts (Animation, Anime, Film, Graphic Design, Photography): Applicants must submit between eight (8) and twelve (12) images and/or three (3) short videos that best display your talents and that characterize your work. Presentation is important. Films should be less than three (3) minutes in length. Videos can be from a short film or a clip from a full length film with a very brief description of the longer film and how the excerpt fits into it. Your portfolio should display a range of your focused abilities and the images/work should connect to the program you wish to attend. For example, if you present anime character drawings and you want to attend an animation program, you will also need to submit film work. If you are submitting film work, please state your name and age at the beginning of each work sample. You must also complete the Media Arts Work Samples Informational form providing the title and author if applicable.

   3. Visual Arts: (Architecture, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design, Photography): Applicants must submit between eight (8) and twelve (12) JPEG images that best display your talents and that characterize your work. Presentation is important. Your portfolio should display a current (this past year) range of your focused abilities, for example, finished drawings or paintings. You should highlight images that connect to the program you wish to attend, for example, show your paintings if you are applying for the scholarship to attend a painting program. You must also complete the Visual Arts Work Samples Informational form providing the title, medium, size of the work and date completed. If you are submitting only images created through digital means, you must also include in the samples some images of different stages of the process.

   4. Performing Arts: (Dance, Instrumental, Singing, Theatre):

      1. Dance: Applicants must submit a total of three (3) videos (studio samples are acceptable) that best display your talents and that characterize your work. Work samples should be less than three minutes in length. You must submit at least two (2) solo videos which demonstrate your command of fundamental steps in the field of dance you are applying to study. For example, a ballet applicant should submit samples with a pirouette, leap/jump combo and steps that clearly represent the technical aspects of ballet. If you also submit a performance video, you must clearly identify which dancer you are and the context in which the performance was presented. Your work samples should demonstrate both technique and artistry and your joy and commitment to the art of dance. You should state your name, age, and what you are performing at the beginning of each work sample. You must also complete the Performing Arts Work Samples Informational form providing the title, choreographer, composer, and the character you are portraying, if applicable.

      2. Instrumental: Applicants must submit a total of three (3) videos that best display your talents and that characterize your work. Work samples should be good quality videos less than three minutes in length. You must submit two (2) videos in which you are the principal soloist, and which also display contrasting styles and show your technical abilities, as well as one (1) solo live performance, which can be a concerto and may be with accompaniment, such as piano. Please try to assure that the technical quality of such performance videos is clear and presents you and your playing in a compelling way. You should state your name, age, and what you will be performing at the beginning of each work sample. The Foundation will not accept works where the applicant is a member of an orchestra, nor duets or small groups. Audio-only submissions will not be considered. You must also complete the Performing Arts Work Samples Informational form providing the title and the composer.

      3. Musical Theatre/Theatre: Applicants must submit a total of three (3) videos that best display your talents and that characterize your work. The Foundation is looking for some versatility in the pieces you present. Work samples should be good quality videos less than three minutes in length. At least one of the videos should be an audition-type monologue, with clear video and audio, that emphasizes your strengths as an actor. If you submit two monologue samples, they should represent two different dramatic genres, such as one dramatic and one comic. If you submit a live performance video, you must clearly identify which character you are playing and the context in which the performance was presented. Please try to assure that the technical quality of such performance videos is clear and presents you and your acting in a compelling way. You should state your name, age, and what you are performing at the beginning of each work sample. You must also complete the Performing Arts Work Samples Informational form providing the title, author, composer, and the character you are portraying, if applicable.

      4. Singing: Applicants must submit a total of three (3) videos that best display your talents and that characterize your work. Work samples should be good quality videos and less than three minutes in length. You must submit two (2) solo videos which display contrasting styles and show your technical abilities, and one (1) solo live performance video. Please try to assure that the technical quality of such performance videos is clear and presents you and your portrayal in a compelling way. All three samples should be with accompaniment, piano is acceptable. You should state your name, age, and what you will be performing at the beginning of each work sample. Please submit the title; author or composer; the character you are portraying, if applicable. Please note: Audio-only submissions will not be considered.

Funding Requirements

The Anthony Quinn Foundation awards a maximum of $3,000.  Based on the requested amount and the overall cost of the program, the Anthony Quinn Foundation may award full the amount requested or partial funding. 

1. Funds must be applied directly to a recognized pre-college, or summer intensive arts education program identified by the applicant.

2. Funds will go toward one program – not multiple programs. Changing the program could affect the outcome of the application. 

3. Funds awarded are sent directly to the arts education program of choice, not to the recipient.

4. Funds must be expended by December 31st of the year in which the funds are awarded.

5. Funds may not be used for currently attended programs, previously attended programs, private instruction, secondary school, college tuition, or travel expenses. Furthermore, the recommender may not be the instructor or be the recipient of the Anthony Quinn Foundation scholarship funds.

Recipient Requirements

Scholarship recipients will be required to submit the following:  

1. Scholarship recipient must provide proof of acceptance to their program of choice. If the applicant is not accepted into their program of choice, changing the program could affect the outcome of the application.

2. Scholarship recipient must pay the non-refundable deposit fee, if applicable, and submit proof of payment to the Anthony Quinn Foundation.

3. Scholarship recipients must show proof of acceptance into the program, and that any remaining balance has been paid by the recipient.

4. Scholarship recipients must provide the deadline by which the tuition is to be paid and request an invoice from their program to be submitted to Mariela Mauro: mariela@aqfoundation.org  

5. Scholarship recipients will be required to complete a post program, follow-up survey. 

Anti-Discrimination Clause and Behavioral Standards

The Anthony Quinn Foundation does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race/ethnicity, color, religion (creed), national origin (ancestry), gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, political beliefs, height or weight in any of the Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship processes or in its operations. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all the applicants, the Board of Trustees, our staff, volunteers, subcontractors, and vendors.

Plagiarism is defined, but not limited to, submitting work done by another person or source or failing to cite another person or source’s ideas; failing to properly place quotation marks on borrowed sentences or phrases and not appropriately documenting notes and bibliographic references.