Available Scholarships
We are excited to offer the following scholarships for SFCB workshops. Interested applicants will be asked to apply using Google Forms; questions about specific scholarships or the application process should be directed to workshops@sfcb.org.
AVAILABLE SCHOLARSHIPS:
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Through a generous grant from The Windgate Foundation, SFCB is able to offer need-based tuition assistance for many of our workshops. Interested applicants must apply at least 3 weeks before their selected workshop's start date to be considered for financial assistance. Applicants will be notified at least 2 weeks before the workshop begins regarding whether or not the application has been approved.
Deadline to apply: this scholarship has a rolling application deadline and is ongoing.
NOW OPEN: The Alice A. Forlin Memorial Scholarship is intended to assist emerging underrepresented artists whose practice would benefit from in-depth exposure to letterpress printing or bookbinding. The scholarship covers full tuition and materials cost of either the Bookbinding Core 1-4 :: Weeklong Intensive or the Cylinder Core 1-4 :: 4-Day Intensive during the Spring workshop term (January-April). SFCB defines an emerging artist as someone in the early stages of their artistic career who has not yet gained widespread recognition or significant professional experience. This includes recent graduates of arts programs or individuals who are actively developing their artistic practice.
The application will close at 5pm on Sunday, January 12, 2025. Applicants will be notified by Friday, January 17, 2025.
PAST SCHOLARSHIPS:
(Winter 2023): In conjunction with SFCB's exhibition, Paper is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures SFCB offered two related workshops for BIPOC-identifying (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) students during December 2023. Recipients were awarded scholarships covering the full tuition and materials cost of either "Exploring Materiality, Meaning and Memory: Natural Dyes in Papermaking" (instructor: Trina Michelle Robinson) or "Paper Bojagi" (instructor: Steph Rue). Scholarships for these two workshops were supported by a grant from the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
(Spring 2024): Two artists received the inaugural Alice A. Forlin Memorial Scholarships for the Bookbinding and Cylinder Core Intensive workshops.
(Summer 2024): SFCB Book Arts Mentorship Award :: Supported by the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation: SFCB is proud to announce a new national mentorship award in book arts. With the support of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, SFCB partnered with esteemed artists and educators John DeMerritt, Li Jiang, and Emily McVarish to offer three, five-day, one-on-one mentorships for experienced artists held at SFCB’s facility in Potrero Hill.
