Mr. James R. Hopes established the art scholarship to encourage talented art students to further their art careers. Prior to this initiative he founded and managed the charity "Kids Can Save Foundation" for children from low-income neighborhoods to learn financial literacy and served as a senior marketing executive at AOL-Time Warner.
Art Scholarships are granted to outstanding art students (sophomore and junior) and graduate students, with financial need.
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Jerraud Coleman
"One day I dream of teaching at the university. I want to be a professor. This is my personal and academic goal. I want to get smarter, work harder, believe, achieve and succeed. I want to learn more by teaching because that would be awesome. It would be like giving back. It was also be an opportunity to do some legitimate studying. It would be a period of great growth. This scholarship would help me pay for some of my Academic credits and supplies. "
Elise Ertel
..Seeking a challenging education, I enrolled as a student in both the Business school and the Art school. This scholarship will aid me in attaining my personal and academic goals by providing monetary assistance for a student that has, for the past 5 semesters, paid out of state tuition. The toll of paying non-resident tuition has forced me to expedite my education so I can begin paying off my educational debt. With the scholarship, I can take time to enjoy my education and focus on developing additional artistic skills that I would otherwise not have time or money to pursue."
Derek Grubaugh
“My personal and academic goals are to graduate CU with my Bachelors in Fine Art, and then attend graduate school to get my Masters in Fine Art. The ultimate goal is to become a college level professor in the arts, and to help spread my knowledge of fine arts to college students who truly want to learn and excel in the arts. This award would help me to continue my studies in the fine arts at the CU Boulder program, and expand my own knowledge of the arts, so one day I could pass this information on to students that I would have in the future”
Ariel Nelson
"There are infinite possibilities in the realm of creative expression, and I find that I am constantly growing, and goingdeeper into my art and my ideas. That is why I aim to dedicate my life to the exploration of art, and more specifically, to the pursuit of teaching as a career."
Eve Partridge
“... I am requesting assistance to offset debt that has accrued within the last three years of attendance at the University of Colorado. The next two years I will be applying to graduate school, but presently am researching and applying for assistantships and artist residencies, which are usually unpaid positions. A scholarship would allow me to spend less time with financial issues and more time pursuing an education and career in the arts. “
Kathryn Steinfort
"My goal in studying art is to pursue photography as a career, and the only way to do that is to get an education in the arts. As anyone familiar with photography knows, it is a very expensive hobby; from paying for film, and paper, chemicals and reels, photographers can spend anywhere from $75 and up per month, depending on the frequency of your picture taking. A scholarship would genuinely benefit my studies, and therefore push me one step closer towards the career path I want to take. My ideal job would be in fashion photography, and, not to be too cheesy or cliché, if you could help me pursue that goal, I would be forever grateful.”
David Marek, film and video
Over the last two and a half years I have been combining contemplation and technical exploration in the service of developing a new method of filmmaking. I call this method “Dissociative Montage.” Its basic premise is that narrative, sound, image, time and space are the five elements of narrative cinema and have the potential to act in unison, in combination, or entirely independent of each other. This simple premise is based on the belief that if one maintains a sense of narrative flow, or what I call a “narrative thread,” then the other four elements of cinema are able to dissociate from each other as well as from the narrative.
Hong Skains, Integrated Arts
In my most recent work, I address the question of cultural identity. In the process, a new synthesis has been emerging in my own individual practice of painting, video, photography, digital imagery, performance art and installation works. The inevitable conflict of two cultures within my "artistic being" has entered my work since coming to the U.S. and a new synthesis of my artistic outlook and competence. I also believe that an artist should be talented in creating many kinds of things. A work of art should have some kind of visual power, surrealistic shock, and a sense of humor. The subjects in my work are sensitive, timid, narcissistic, skeptical and lonely, but full of desire. They resist the encroaching civilization outside, entirely enjoy and comfort themselves.
On the Other Side of Despair…Hope
56 x100 in., 2009