Morgan Gruer, 25, $3000 to take a Painting & Drawing Intensive and A Drawing on Site: Urban Sketching Intensive. Morgan is a multidisciplinary Director, Animator and Artist who works between New York and Los Angeles. She grew up in a creative household in New Jersey where she fostered a passion for art, design, music, and film, and was fortunate enough to build a career that combines all of these.

Sophia Reed, 27, $3000 to study Explorations in Acrylics and Digital Fabrication. She grew up in Warrensburg, Missouri and now lives in Kansas City where she works full-time and spends as many hours as possible creating art in her day-to-day life.

Elmi Ventura Mata, 23, Philadelphia, $3,000 to refine his painting skills, technically and conceptually by taking Shonna Renee Pryor’s Introduction to Oil Painting class and Rebecca George’s Painting Materials+Methods course. He is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Arts and is enrolled in the master’s in fine arts program at Temple University.