The Future of Design Jewelry Education Fund: Alice Abrams Scholarship Contest

The Future of Design Jewelry Education Fund, a charitable fund founded and administered by Cindy Edelstein, announces its first scholarship competition to the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco. This year's grant is in honor of Colorado designer Alice Abrams and will be awarded to a designer wishing to attend the Academy. The fund was established "to foster the future development of talented American jewelry designers by providing financial assistance in the form of scholarships, partial scholarships and awards to qualified students studying design and/or metals and/or jewelry courses at accredited educational institutions."

The scholarship competition is open to anyone. Jurors will look for an individual whose work displays original, innovative, high quality jewelry design. The winner will be awarded $1,500 in tuition credit, which can be applied toward any classes at the school for one year, including the Academy's famed Master's Symposium that takes place each Spring. Applicants must submit three print-ready images (up to 9MB in size each) of their work and answer two short essay questions. Jurors are Alice Abrams, Alan Revere, and Cindy Edelstein.

Deadline: September 1, 2014 at 11:59pm (MST). Entry fee: $25.00. Maximum of 20 applications allowed. Note: This scholarship is in lieu of the Mort Abelson Masters Symposium Scholarship, which has been deferred for one year.