With the support and vision of the arts enthusiasts, Dale and Doug Anderson, Scholarships for Scholars, was created in 2000 to provide much needed funding for the UW Ceramics graduate students. The UW Ceramics Program has played a unique and leading role in contemporary ceramics for some fifty years and is nationally ranked by U.S. News and World Report. In 2005 the program was honored to receive the Brotman Instructional Award by the university. The strength and vision of the clay tradition at the UW was established by the outstanding contributions of Robert Sperry, Howard Kottler and Patti Warashina. The current faculty-Doug Jeck, Akio Takamori, Jamie Walker-continue to encourage experimentation and promote the use of clay as a basis for individual artistic expression.
Every February, the Scholarships for Scholars Celebration coincides with the opening of the 1st Year Graduate Exhibition, open studios, silent auction and raffle drawings. Over $150,000 has been raised to help support the education of twenty-eight of our graduate students. This helped us to continue to recruit the outstanding students who form the core of our program, with most of them establishing studio and/or teaching careers following graduation.
After eight years of having this as a Ceramics event, Scholarships for Scholars IX will highlight the new 3D4M consortium which includes Ceramics/Glass/Public Art/Sculpture. The faculty have been working on this collaborative endeavor for a few years as a way to restructure our programs to better reflect the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary art, embrace the introduction of Glass, and provide the most stimulating studio environment possible. In particular the graduate students are very excited by this change and we are looking forward to attracting an even more diverse and talented pool of graduate candidates to study at the University of Washington.
Graduate Students Supported
2001 Sarah Lindley, Paul Metevier, Jodi Rockwell
2002 Carrie Kaufman, Debbie Reichard, Tony Pazzi
2003 Julia Cole, Kris Lyons, Tammie Rubin, Timea Tihanyi
2004 Drew Daly, Ryan Horvath, Tim Roda, James Sumey
2005 Katie Cox, Eric Eley, Satomi Jin
2006 Ben Hirschkoff, Susie Lee, Matt Mitros
2007 Amy Johnson, Mike Simi, Matt Van Horn, Kristine Veith
2008 Alicia Basinger, Evan Blackwell, Rachel de Conde, Kinu Watanabe
2009 George Rodriguez, Arun Sharma, Ben Waterman