SCHOLARSHIPS
2026 Winners! Scholarship Chair Jan Gmitter with Amber Noble: Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Helen Popadic: The Kings Academy
Sophie Li of West Boca Raton High School and Marianna Padilla of Spanish River High School, winners of 2025 Scholarships
Leah Abito of Jupiter High School, Isabella Sanchez of Wellington High School and Lili Rose Leonard of West Boca High School (Not pictured). Awards were presented by Jan Gmitter of the Wellington Art Society.
Marianna Padilla spoke to our artist members about her art.
Stella Martinelli of G-Star School of the Arts
The Wellington Art Society is pleased to offer high school students a scholarship opportunity!
Art scholarships of $1,500 are awarded to High School Seniors who…
are residing in, and enrolled in, high schools in Palm Beach County
planning to major in visual arts or an art related college degree
are starting their college freshman year the same calendar year as the scholarship application
have a 3.0 GPA or higher in visual arts and a 2.0 overall GPA
The Wellington Art Society will be accepting registration/applications for this Art Scholarship starting January 1, 2027 and ending on March 31, 2027
There is no cost to enter
Notification of winners on April 26, 2027 - Only winners will be notified.
For consideration of a Wellington Art Society scholarship, students must register and apply via email.
See instructions that follow:
Students must complete and provide all information on the attached registration/Application form as per the instructions on the form.
This completed registration/application form, letter of recommendation from a faculty member, school transcripts, and photos of artwork will be emailed to WASartscholarship@gmail.com.You can combine all the documents in a .pdf format or you can submit forms and .jpegs separately.
You may submit more than one work. However, a total of no more than five (5) images are permitted. Therefore, if you are photographing more than one image per work, each photograph counts as one. If you submit more than five images only the first five will be accepted.
Each image must comply to the following requirements:
File format: JPEG only (Title, Size, and Medium) DO NOT USE YOUR NAME ON THE TITLE
File dimensions: No smaller than 1920 pixels on the longest side
File resolution: 72 ppi/dpi (standard web resolution)
File size: 3 MB maximum
If you have any questions, you can contact JG at WASartscholarship@gmail.com.
To join our team of volunteers to help with the scholarship program, please click here to contact us.