The Art Practice department offers numerous monetary awards and opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, including project grants, exhibition support, and citations of excellence during graduation. Prizes range from $100 up to $1000 or more. Numerous University-wide grants, fellowships, and awards are also available and many Art Practice majors have been recipients. Students also benefit from internship opportunities in museums, nonprofit art spaces, and commercial galleries, as well as participating in Student Committees at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). The department Newsletter is emailed several times a semester and lists artist residencies, funding opportunities, and support.
Departmental Grants, Awards and Prizes
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Materials Quik-Grant: Each semester, eligible undergraduate Art Practice majors are invited to submit short project proposals to support immediate cost of art supplies and materials for one or more Art Practice classes. Fifteen grants are awarded in the amount of $200. Applications are juried by members of Art Practice staff, faculty, and undergraduate alumni. Started in Spring 2021, over $30,000 has been awarded to over 150 undergraduate Art Practice majors.
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Ramos Family Foundation Award: Awarded at graduation, recipients receive a monetary award and an exhibition at the department’s Worth Ryder Art Gallery.
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Wendy Sussman Prize: Awarded at graduation for outstanding achievement in undergraduate art practice, honors figurative painter and inspirational professor Wendy Sussman, who taught in Art Practice from 1989 until her untimely death in 2001.
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Lauren Krikorian Memorial Prize: Awarded at graduation and established by the family of Art Practice undergraduate Lauren Krikorian.
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Art Practice and University Library Printmaking Award: Awarded at graduation to the undergraduate student in the Department of Art Practice who has demonstrated an astute understanding of printmaking techniques, as well as an advanced ability to express themselves through the medium of printmaking. Established in 2018 by the Department of Art Practice and the University Library, it is given to one or two students each academic year, and their artwork enters into the Graphic Arts Loan Collection
University Grants, Awards and Prizes
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Haas Scholars Program: Apply by junior year for senior year funding. Each year, twenty highly qualified, academically talented undergraduates with financial need come together to build a supportive intellectual community during their final year at UC Berkeley. Once selected, Haas Scholars receive close mentoring from members of the UC-Berkeley faculty, seminars and workshops to assist them in the research and writing process, the opportunity to present their work at a program conference, and up to $14,800 each in financial support.
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Center for Race and Gender’s Student Grants Program for Research & Creative Projects: Since the establishment of CRG's Student Grants Program for Research and Creative Projects in 2003, CRG has awarded over $223,000 in grants to 145 undergraduates and 213 graduate students for research projects that are oriented towards academic work or that approach race and gender from the perspectives of media, fine arts, and performing acts.
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Arts Research Center’s LIFT Student Grants: Sponsored by the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, up to 10 awards for students in the amount of $500 each will fund specific creative arts projects or arts research, including workshops, conferences, performance costs, collaborations, materials, publication, or exhibition costs. Open to full-time UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students (including Masters & PhD).
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Jacobs Institute Innovation Catalyst’s Spark and Ignite Grants: Awards for $500 and $2000. Berkeley students are invited to propose projects that they aim to develop over the course of a semester. Selected grantees will work on their projects with the support of resources from the Jacobs Institute, and as part of a cohort of fellow student innovators.
External Fellowships
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Windgate-Lamar Fellowship: administered by the Center for Craft. Each year the Windgate-Lamar Fellowship identifies 10 graduating students with exemplary skill in craft. One undergraduate Art Practice senior may be nominated by a faculty member to apply for the $15,000 monetary award.
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The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowships in Painting and Sculpture are awarded annually to final-year students who are graduating from an MFA degree program in the United States. Four fellowships are awarded every year, each carrying a stipend of $15,000.