Application Guidelines
About the Scholarship
The John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship seeks to recognize, encourage and reward photographers with the potential to create a body of work and sustain solo exhibitions.
Awarded annually, the Scholarship provides recipients with a monetary award of $3,000, exhibition of their work at the Griffin Museum of Photography, and a volume from John’s personal library of photography books. The Scholarship seeks to provide a watershed moment in the professional lives of emerging photographers, providing them with the support and encouragement necessary to develop, articulate and grow their own vision for photography.
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Eligibility Criteria
The scholarship is open to photographers who have produced individual works of photography and/or are in the process of producing bodies of work.
We are looking for candidates who are serious about photography, whose potential is emerging and whose photography will benefit from this scholarship. Candidates can be currently enrolled in a photography degree program if in their graduating year. There is no age limit. There are no residency requirements. There is no application fee.
Photographers without gallery representation who have not exhibited solo in a commercial gallery, academic gallery (except for thesis shows), nor galleries in organizations like the Griffin Museum, Houston Center for Photography, Center for Fine Art Photography etc. nor a museum setting or have not received significant (over $3000) grant funding are eligible (coffee shop, community gallery, library, academic thesis exhibitions, etc. are eligible exhibition settings). Past awardees of the Chervinsky Scholarship, paid employees of the Griffin Museum or their immediate families, Griffin Museum board members and jurors’ immediate families and those immediate families of Griffin board members or jurors’ paid employees are not eligible.
This scholarship is not for well-established photographers. Well-established photographers are individuals in mid-photography-careers and are seen by the public and peers as distinguished in the field of photography and have many accomplishments as a photographer. Of note, receiving a Fulbright Scholarship would disqualify a candidate from receiving this scholarship. Producing a published (by a publisher) photo book would disqualify a candidate from receiving this scholarship. Self publishing does not disqualify a candidate.
Submission
You will be asked for a brief biography and artistic cv (a single PDF that includes both bio and cv. In the PDF title include Chervinsky and last name and first name.); a statement of artistic purpose/intent of how you will use the scholarship; a statement on the work supplied, and flattened rgb jpgs (1200 pixels on the longest side) of your photographs (10 photographs). Naming convention is last name_first name_title.jpg. Artistic Purpose is how you will use the scholarship and your plan for doing so. The statement is about your body of work.
Do not supply links. Café will give the jurors the ability to view material as needed. You will need to add an artistic statement and a project statement in the gateway application as well as bio and cv and 10 images. No other means of submission will be accepted. All missing criteria will disqualify the submission. Emails will not be accepted as a method of submissions. It is recommended that great thought and effort be put into the artistic purpose/intent statement (see sample supplied).
It is recommended that you prepare all the elements of the application in advance. Do not start the application if you do not have time to finish it. Wait until you have time to complete the application in one session.
Scholarship Dates and Deadlines
Submission period opens February 3, 2024 Apply via Café. https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=13065
Submissions close April 3, 2024 at 11:59PM Mountain Time
The jurors will begin their jurying soon after submissions close.
We will announce the awardee by May 15, 2024.
Image above of John Chervinsky © L. Barry Hetherington
2024 Jury
Arlette Kayafas opened Gallery Kayafas in 2003 in Boston’s then new gallery district in the South End. The gallery exhibited photographs from renowned photographers often pairing them with new emerging artists. Kayafas and her husband, Gus, have been collecting photography for more than five decades and the gallery only shows work that she would consider adding to the collection.
In 2012, the gallery expanded its programming to include contemporary paintings, installation, works on paper, sculpture, and video while maintaining its focus on photography.
Kayafas believes that the work shown in the gallery must engage perceptually while having a rigorous underlying message – the artist’s voice. Arlette selects artists who have strong insights and are committed to articulating them through their work. One of the gallery’s missions is to offer a platform for the artist to be heard and visitors to have an experience which brings about thoughtful attention.
Frazier King was born in Virginia and now lives and works in Houston, Texas. He is mostly self taught but has attended classes and workshops sponsored by the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, Texas, and other institutions. His most recent work, entitled “The Seven Deadly Sins” is described in the accompanying statement.
His earlier series, entitled “Orchidaceae”, explores the nature of the orchid and enquires whether we may see sensual or spiritual reflections of ourselves. This work has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States as well as in Mexico, Canada, Peru, Belgium and France. Solo shows have been at FotoFest 2010 at the Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX; Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas; Fotofest 2002 in Houston, TX; Galeria De Arte Fotografica in San Miguel, Mexico; and at Honeysuckle Gallery in Fayetteville, Texas. Prints are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; and Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Another body of work is an examination of whether each of our collections of personal objects, called “Tableau”, reflects an interior landscape. Finally, work done while traveling in Mexico looks for poetic reflections of the basics of daily life. The two bodies of earlier work have been shown world-wide in numerous exhibitions since 1994.
Bruce Myren is a photographic artist based in Cambridge, MA. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art from the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Myren’s work has been featured in publications such as the Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, Boston Magazine, Fraction Magazine, Afterimage, and View Camera Magazine and has been showcased in numerous exhibitions across the United States. Places where his work has been displayed include the Phoenix Art Museum, RISD Museum’s Chace Center, Houston Center of Photography, and the William Benton Museum of Art. He has also had several solo shows, including at the University of the Arts, Danforth Museum of Art, and Gallery Kayafas, where he is represented.
In recognition of his artistic talent, Myren has received a Cambridge Arts Council Grant and has served as a juror for the Griffin Museum of Photography and Flash Forward Festival. He has presented on panels at the College Art Association and SPE, spoken across the country as a visiting artist, and worked as the Chair of the Northeast Chapter of SPE from 2010-2016.
Besides his artistic pursuits, Myren works at the Boston Public Library’s Digital Lab, and the Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnography and owns Bee Digital Lab. He has taught photography at several prestigious universities, including Fitchburg State University, Amherst College, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Northeastern University.
