Scholarship Show 2023

This April, the Gallery at the Park presents its annual Scholarship Show, an exhibition of two artists. The first is a visual arts master of fine arts (MFA) student who is enrolled in a university in Washington, Idaho, or Oregon, and the second is a student enrolled in the Visual Arts Program at Columbia Basin College (CBC).

Jurors Mary Dryburgh and Tracy Walker selected this year’s MFA winner, an Iranian student who wishes to remain anonymous, for her animated video titled “Listen.” The second scholarship winner, Maureen Magee-Uhlik, was selected by the CBC Art Department.

Allied Arts Association has been holding Scholarship Shows since 1950, when the organization awarded a scholarship to an artist named Richard “Dick” Morton, an artist studying painting. For more than 70 years, Allied Arts has promoted art education and empowered developing artists by featuring their work in scholarship shows.