John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer 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 is open to photographers who have produced individual works of photography and/or are in the process of producing bodies of work. Candidates must be serious about photography with emerging potential. Photographers currently enrolled in a photography degree program are eligible if in their graduating year. There is no age limit, no residency requirements, and no application fee. Photographers without gallery representation who have not exhibited solo in a commercial gallery, academic gallery (except thesis shows), galleries in organizations like the Griffin Museum, Houston Center for Photography, or Center for Fine Art Photography, or in a museum setting, or who have not received significant grant funding (over $3,000) are eligible. 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. Well-established photographers, those who have received a Fulbright Scholarship, or those who have produced a published photo book are ineligible. Self-publishing does not disqualify a candidate.

Submissions must be made through Café and include a brief biography and artistic CV (single PDF), a statement of artistic purpose/intent, a statement on the work supplied, and 10 flattened RGB JPGs (1200 pixels on the longest side). Images should be submitted in order numbered 1-10. The application period opens February 5, 2024 and closes March 31, 2024 at 11:59 PM Mountain Time. The awardee will be announced by May 31, 2024.