About the Program

Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarships

The Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship Program was established to commemorate Anthony Quinn’s contribution to the arts and support his vision for an art-conscious-society. The Scholarship Program provides financial assistance to high school students who wish to attend a recognized pre-college, or summer intensive arts education program.

 
 

Timeline

Applications for the 2025 Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship Program are now open, until January 5th 2025. In order to move onto the Application, the applicant must submit the Registration Form no later than midnight on November 30, 2024.

Review Process

Judging panel are made up of practicing artists, art educators, and experts in the various fields of focus.  Judges are completely independent from the Foundation’s board/staff and are geographically dispersed throughout the United States.

 

Award Amount

The Foundation makes an effort to distribute the funds evenly across all artistic disciplines. The maximum scholarship award is $3,000. Since the tuition costs of many summer intensive programs can exceed this amount, we encourage our applicants to plan for and to seek additional funding from other sources.  

 

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, Film, Video), Performing Arts (Dance, Instrumental, Singing, Theatre) and the Visual Arts (Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Illustration, Photography, etc.). 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 2025 Scholarships will be open from October 1st, 2024 through January 5th, 2025. Prior to receiving access to the application form, the student must submit a Registration Form, which is due no later than midnight on Saturday, November 30, 2024.

Below is a list of requirements needed to complete your application. Please read through them carefully, prior to filling out your Registration Form, to make sure you will be able to meet all of the criteria before the closing date of January 5, 2025. Thank you!

1. Letter of Recommendation

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 directly 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:(please click on the + to expand on the work sample requirements for your discipline)

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.