Fri, Apr 15
|Online Application
Compassion in Action Scholarships for Students
APPLY NOW! AVAM’s Compassion in Action Student Scholarship program to be awarded to Baltimore K-12 students who have demonstrably put compassionate actions into their own daily lives, and to the benefit of fellow students, elders, family, animals, and their community.
Time & Location
Apr 15, 2022, 7:00 PM
Online Application
About the Event
The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) is thrilled to announce our Compassion in Action Scholarship Program! Inspired by our current mega-exhibition, “HEALING & THE ART OF COMPASSION (And the lack thereof!),” and with the intent to inspire students to actively practice compassion as they move through the world, AVAM will award fifty (50) $500 scholarships to Baltimore area K-12 students who have incorporated extraordinary compassionate actions into their daily lives.
Each entry must present evidence of exceptional actions that express a real understanding of the importance of compassion and a creative commitment to make compassionate action a continuing part of their future life. Compassion for other human beings, respect for elders, nature, and animals are among possible great examples.
Each applicant should express, in 250 words or less, how they have incorporated compassion into their own actions and just what compassion means to them. Young children can orally dictate their…