Myartspace Launches Major Art Scholarship Program for Graduate and Undergraduates

myartspace.com, the premier online venue for contemporary art has launched an exciting scholarship program -- "myartscholarship". The scholarship program is intended for students who exhibits exceptional artistic excellence in all mediums of the visual arts including photography and video, both contemporary and traditional in nature.

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) July 24, 2008 -- myartspace.com, the premier online venue for contemporary art has launched an exciting scholarship program -- "myartscholarship". The scholarship program is intended for students who exhibits exceptional artistic excellence in all mediums of the visual arts including photography and video, both contemporary and traditional in nature. Myartspace is providing a 3 scholarship prizes for undergraduate students and separately 3 scholarship prizes for graduate students. First place winners in each category are awarded a $5000 cash art scholarship. Second and Third placement receive $2000 and $1000 respectively.

In order to be considered for a myartspace scholarship, the artist must be a member of myartspace. Membership is free and members can upload an unlimited amount of images, videos and music. Members must build and submit an online art gallery through a registration and submission process which is simple and straight forward. The deadline for submission is November 21, 2008. Scholarship winners are announced on December 19th, 2008.

The student body within myartspace is significant in size and importance. We devised a scholarship program for both our MFAs and undergraduate students to compete for consideration and win a meaningful cash scholarship. We hope to expand this program each year.

Catherine McCormack-Skiba, the Company founder of myartspace noted "The student body within myartspace is significant in size and importance. We devised a scholarship program for both our MFAs and undergraduate students to compete for consideration and win a meaningful cash scholarship. We hope to expand this program each year."

Students interested in signing up for consideration for a myartspace scholarship can find out more details visiting the myartspace web site.

About myartspace:
myartspace, the premier online venue for contemporary art, is one of the fastest growing and diverse communities on the internet. Its members include more than 40,000 artists, collectors, galleries and other art world professionals from across the globe, and it currently hosts the work of nearly 30,000 artists. Membership is free and artist can upload an unlimited amount of work including images, music and video. Myartspace is created and run by CatMacArt Corporation. www.catmacart.com.

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