Artwork PDF Instructions | FAQ’s | Review Rubric
How to Photograph Artwork
Art and Design in the School of the Arts at Northern Kentucky University is pleased to offer art scholarship opportunities for our incoming freshman students. Students who are majoring in Art and Design and have officially applied at NKU may apply for this scholarship support. At least two Art and Design Freshman Scholarships are awarded every year for one semester of in-state tuition. Several alternates will also be chosen.
To apply for one of these portfolio-based freshman scholarships, please fill out the NKU Art and Design Incoming Freshman Scholarship Application through the link provided below. As part of the application, the student must upload a PDF document containing digital images of 10-15 pieces of artwork. Each image must be labeled as directed in the ‘Artwork PDF Instructions’ document (see above). Applicants will be judged on the quality and originality of their artwork, as well as their grade point average, letter of intent, letter of recommendation (preferably from their high school art teacher), and high school transcripts.
Once the deadline passes, the Art and Design scholarship committee, consisting of art and design faculty, will review each qualifying application (see Review Rubric above). Immediate notification will be sent from the chair of the scholarship committee to those that did not meet all the qualifications, along with an explanation of why. After the committee determines the scholarship recipient(s), the Program Head of Art and Design will send a letter of notification to all qualifying applicants.
Applications must be submitted by December 1 each year. Late (and/or incomplete) submissions will not be considered. Please click on the blue button below to begin your application.
Materials you will need for this application:
All PDF documents must be openable and viewable in the most current version of Adobe Reader.
For questions regarding the scholarship application process,
Brad McCombs
Art & Design Program Head
email: mccombsr1@nku.edu
phone: (859) 572-5562
Other Institutional Scholarships can be found under the Freshman Scholarship Listing.
Complete list of Scholarships and Awards
Contact the Office of Student Financial Assistance for more information.
Toll-Free 1-888-225-4499
Ten (10) to Fifteen (15) individual artworks must be submitted for scholarship consideration. Work may be in a single discipline or a combination of work from 2D, 3D, and 4D areas. If a student is working in a series, each work counts as one individual work of art. For more clarification, refer to the FAQ’s for assistance.
Please review the "Artwork PDF Instructions" document above for proper layout. Any embellishment on this layout will result in disqualification. Each image must be labeled as follows:
Label | Example |
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Your Full Name | Joe Smith |
Title of the Artwork | Conversations |
Medium | Steel, fabric, and wood |
Dimensions *(see specifics below) | 31” x 24” x 12” |
Completed for **(see specifics below) | Completed for Art 317 |
Labels for "Detail" views of your artwork (or alternate views of a 3-D/Installation) should be as follows:
Label | Example |
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Your Full Name | Joe Smith |
Title of the Artwork | Conversations |
Detail | Detail |
* Dimensions are required for all artworks submitted, whether photographs, digital art, drawings, etc. The committee understands that photographs and digital art can be printed or exist in multiple sizes/dimensions. In these cases, please submit the image dimensions in which the work was originally created.