Sculptors Lily Baxter ’15 and Davis Gerber ’14 were recently awarded the inaugural Fifth Year Art Fellowship. This is a program which will provide promising art alums interested in pursuing MFAs with funds, facilities access and faculty input as they create a body of work for graduate school applications. The program is free of charge to students.
The Fifth Year Art Fellowship is awarded to recent, truly outstanding Whittier College studio art graduates who intend to pursue a Master of Fine Art degree. During the 1-year program, students will have access to Wardman Gym and its facilities as they produce a formally and conceptually coherent body of work for their graduate school applications. Though students will be granted a substantial amount of freedom in their explorations, they will have several formal critiques with studio faculty throughout the year, and faculty will be available should students need guidance with specific tasks. Additionally, fellows will participate as critics in senior critiques. At the end of the fellowship, students will be expected to mount an exhibition of their work and to submit an artist statement and a complete graduate school portfolio. To be eligible for the fellowship, it is recommended that students graduate with a 3.5 GPA in the Art major and that they be nominated by the Art and Art History faculty.
