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Beyond the Classroom
The Program in Art and Art History provides opportunities provides opportunities for students to apply classroom theory to real world experience through internships, with a select number of awards to support internships that involve exceptional cost for the student. Additionally, junior and senior prizes reward and honor excellent creative work by students in their third and fourth years of study.
Internship Support Awards
We offer a limited number of internship support awards, each of which may provide up to $1,000 of support for a student wishing to pursue an extracurricular internship that involves travel or higher living costs.
Senior Awards and Exhibition
The Senior Exhibition is a celebration and showcase of work created by graduating Studio Art and Art Education majors and Art minors. Every student who enters work for the Senior Award competition will have one work chosen for the Senior Exhibition. The exhibition opens in early May and continues through Commencement Day.
Junior Awards and Exhibition
Every year in the spring term, the Studio Art faculty jury the creative work of junior-level Studio Art and Art Education majors and Art minors. The four students receiving an award also exhibit their work the following Fall term in the Colburn Gallery, Williams Hall.
Mollie Ruprecht Fund for Visual Arts Brings Fresh Perspectives
Besides first class instruction from UVM scholar/teachers, students are constantly exposed to new art created by regional artists and critics who hold public talks, display their work, and discuss their creative interests. The Ruprecht Fund was established in 2011 by Bill Ruprecht, an alumnus of the department to honor his daughter, Mollie Ruprecht, who was also an art and art history major. Ruprecht visitors' creative work has often been integrated into the curriculum of our courses, and many of the visiting artists have exhibited their work in conjunction with their visits.