Application Deadline: March 1, 2025

Notification: Early April, 2025

“Thank you for the opportunity to take such a great and (in my mind) life changing course! Through the scholarship program you offered for school faculty and staff, I was able to broaden my horizons, gain important knowledge, and embrace the opportunity to try something I have always hoped to explore. Sincerely, thank you!!”

-Summer Workshop Student

The Fine Arts Work Center is committed to awarding scholarships to increase access to our summer workshops, with a special focus on engaging young people, people with low incomes, and individuals from BIPOC, AAPI, LGBTQIA+, and other communities historically underserved by FAWC. 

Last summer, 20% of our summer workshop students—over 110 students—attended with no charge for tuition. Almost half of those were local artists and writers who live and work on Cape Cod. Over 60 scholarship recipients traveled from beyond Cape Cod, and  they not only paid no tuition, but also received free housing and a travel stipend. Our goal is to match or increase this commitment in 2025, and in years to come.  

We couldn’t have made such a significant commitment to our scholarship program without the support from our philanthropic community. Thanks to the generosity of individual donors, businesses, foundations, and state and federal government agencies, we were able to open our doors wider last summer, and we will be able to do so again in 2025. 

We are also grateful to our 35 scholarship partners, including The City of Boston, nonprofits like Art Lords, Cave Canem, Community Building Art Works, Kundiman, Indigenous Nations Poets, Lambda Literary, Future Perfect Project, and Mass Poetry, as well as colleges like Cape Cod Community College, Dartmouth College, the Institute of American Indian Art,  New York University, and Washington University in St. Louis. 

Included in our list of scholarship partners is a whole roster of incredible new local scholarship partners, who are essential to our effort to expand access of Cape Cod artists and writers to the Summer Workshops. These partners include nonprofits like 20 Summers, The Center for Coastal Studies, the Commons, the Pilgrim Monument, PAAM, the Provincetown Theater, WHAT and WOMR, as well as educational institutions like the Provincetown School, Nauset Regional High School and Nauset Regional Middle School. 

If you apply for a scholarship, you do not need to register for a workshop beforehand – we are holding space for scholarship students in each workshop. If you are awarded a scholarship, we will work with you to register you in one of your top workshop choices.

Please continue to check back here as our list of partnerships and available scholarships is constantly growing! 

Online Applications

The following FAWC Scholars Awards opportunities require applicants to submit applications to FAWC. Please choose the scholarship that is the best fit for you. Please note: one scholarship application per person.

Application Deadline: March 1, 2025

Notification: Early April 2025

Sponsored and Named Scholarships 

(Includes cost of tuition and housing and typically provides a travel stipend)

• Cave Canem Scholarships: Four scholarships for Cave Canem Fellows.
• Community Building Art Works Scholarships: Three scholarships for veterans working with CBAW.
• Institute of American Indian Arts: Two scholarships for indigenous writers/artists affiliated with IAIA.
• Kundiman Scholarships: Four scholarships for Asian American writers.
• NYU Scholarships: Two scholarships for NYU students.
• RISD Scholarships: Two scholarships for RISD students or alums.

General Scholarships

(Includes the cost of tuition and housing and provides a travel stipend)

• The Summer Workshop Program will award a variable number of FAWC Scholars Awards for creative writing and visual arts workshops.

Cape Cod Resident FAWC Scholarships

(Includes the cost of tuition only)

• The Summer Workshop Program will award a variable number of FAWC Scholars Awards for creative writing and visual arts workshops for residents of Cape Cod.
• Jacobs-Ganz Scholarship: One full-tuition scholarship for a visual arts workshop.
• Rudy Kikel Scholarship: In memory of Rudy Kikel, one full-tuition scholarship for a Cape Cod resident for a poetry workshop.
• Michael Mazur Scholarship: In memory of Michael Mazur, one full-tuition scholarship for a Cape Cod resident for a printmaking workshop.
• Michael Prodanou Scholarship: Thanks to the support of Provincetown artist Michael Prodanou, one full-tuition scholarship for a Cape Cod resident for a drawing or painting workshop.
• Future Perfect Project Scholarships: Thanks to The Future Perfect Project, up to twelve scholarships for people ages 16 – 22 who identify as LGBTQIA+ and live year-round on Cape Cod.

Partner Organization Scholarships 

The following organizations and academic institutions are partnering with us to provide scholarships specifically for their constituents that are not run through our website application process. We are grateful for their support. 

• 20Summers
• ArtLords
• Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation
• Center for Coastal Studies
• Dartmouth College
• Georgia Writers
• Lambda Literary
• MassArt
• Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture/City of Boston
• Nauset Regional High School
• Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum
• Provincetown Art Association and Museum
• Provincetown Schools
• Provincetown Theater
• Susquehanna University
• The Commons
• Undocupoets
• University of Houston Creative Writing Program
• University of Texas, El Paso
• Washington University in St. Louis
• Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
• WOMR

Scholarship Supporter

• Kennesaw State University

Please remember to check this page often, as our list of partnerships and available scholarships is continually expanding!