Weston Scholarship Education Association

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2010 - Press Release

Save the date:
May 5, 2010: Weston Scholarship Exhibition and Award Ceremony, 6-7pm; Marjorie Evans Gallery; Sunset Cultural Center Carmel, CA
8th and San Carlos St. Call Gina Weston for information 831.614.8111

2010 Donations - Freestyle Photographic Supplies
Freestyle Photographic Supplies has generously donated supplies to our local King City High School Photography Program so they could finish out their 2nd semester. Their funds had been cut and their supplies depleted. When Weston Scholarship approached Patrick DelliBovi to ask for a partial donation, Patrick graciously donated the full amount to them. Thank you Freestyle for such a generous donation! And thank you for getting out our orders correctly and promptly. We never have to worry about ordering supplies from you because it always comes in perfect condition and we get it right away! Thank you so much!

2009 Press Release -

This year The Weston Photography Scholarship Portfolio Contest received 77 student portfolios, up from 42 last year and 12 the first year. Entries came from the usual places – such as Carmel High, Pacific Grove High, Stevenson High, Santa Catalina and Monterey Peninsula College – but they also came from Seaside High, Monterey High and King City High. Because of the number of entries we increased the number of scholarships to twenty $200 honorable mentions, two $300 third places, two $500 second places, and two $1,000 first places, in addition to the $1,000 Julian P. Graham Scholarship, bringing the total given out to $8,600. Since its inception, we have given 88 awards totaling $29,988.00.

Our goal at the outset was to generate interest among students in the classic analog photographic processes and thereby, we hoped, preserve that art form through another generation. As Kim remarked at the award ceremony, the increase in participants from 12 to 77 means that we are on the way to accomplish exactly that.

Many of the scholarship winners have gone on to pursue their photography career by attending such notable schools as The Academy of Art in San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. One of last year’s recipients of the Julian P Graham Award is home for the summer and will help Kim on a book project.

New Date! Fine Print Art Scholarship Auction 2010

Our 2009 Fine Art Scholarship Fundraiser will be postponed until 2010. We are planning to combine the Fine Print Auction Fundraiser with our MAY 2010 Weston Scholarship Awards and Exhibition. This year’s Awards Ceremony and Exhibition was so well attended this year that we want to be sure to include the students, families and friends of the scholarship winners at the auction next year.

In the mean time we will be looking for new ways to partner with other venues (literary and music) in our community. In doing this we can include a new audience to our event, creating more awareness to our cause and to our unique photographic community.

We want to have another great event like we had last year, thanks to all of you who have continually donated to our scholarship fund.

We will gladly continue to accept donated photographs if you would like to send them to us or have us pick them up or you can wait for several months and we will send out another donation letter as the time gets closer.

Thank you very much for all that you have done to enrich the lives of these young photographers on our peninsula.

We are also looking for volunteers, so if you would like to participate in some manner or know anyone that might want to, let us know. To see this years awards and exhibition see the 2009 Winners!

Thank you for your ongoing support!

100% of the proceeds goes directly to the Weston Scholarship Fund.

Gina & Kim Weston

2008 Link to article in The Monterey Herald by Lisa Crawford

2008 Press Release

Weston Photography Scholarship
5th Annual Fine Print Auction

Carmel Art Association – Carmel Ca. – Saturday, September 13 – 7pm
The Weston Photography Scholarship Fund will be hosting their 5th Annual Fine Print Auction at the Carmel Art Association. Donated works include Roman Loranc, Robert Weingarten, Graham Nash, Kim Weston, Huntington Witherill, Ryuijie, Chuck Davis, Jim Kasson, Chip Hooper, Jerry Takigawa, Donald Ross and Kenneth Parker among others. $10 per person. Hors d’oeuvres by A Moveable Feast. Preview Auction with online bidding September 5-12, 2008. www.westonscholarship.org.

100% of proceeds go directly to the Weston Scholarship Fund which benefits high school and college photography students in Monterey County. Each spring Weston Scholarship Fund holds a juried competition that culminates with an awards ceremony and an exhibition at the Sunset Cultural Center. For information call Gina Weston 831.624.8111 or gina@kimweston.com
Weston Photography Scholarship is a nonprofit organization.

Weston Scholarship Fund

The 2008 scholarship contest received portfolios from the largest range of Monterey County Schools so far to date. Out of 42 entries we awarded 17 Scholarships totaling $5800. Since its inception, we have given 61 awards totaling $21,300. In 2008 additional money and photography supplies was awarded to the local school programs in order to advance the teaching of photography.

This year we held an exhibition of the winning photographs at the Marjorie Evans Gallery at the Sunset Cultural Center that was quite the success.

“With the generous amount of honorable mentions as well as awards, there was something for everyone and a strong sense of community by showing the works at the Sunset Cultural Center”.

“Students, who even at a beginning level, are encouraged by seeing their work presented formally, under glass and lit in a gallery. They can observe responses as the public views their pieces, and hear comments that raise their awareness from the viewer's perspective”.

“This competition prepares students for portfolio reviews before college applications, and helps the advanced students to feel validated as fine art photographers”.

“Providing so many recognitions gave the participants a sense of camaraderie rather than rivalry. When young artists’ have the experience of fellowship they can believe their art has value”.

“Monterey County has had a tradition of community networking in the arts for several generations. Your competition reaches out regionally and brings together young artists who are in the pursuit of luminosity”.

Many of the scholarship winners have gone on or are going this year to very notable schools such as The Academy of Art in San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California Institute of the Arts in Valencia and Brooks Institute of Photography. I would say it’s an impressive lineup and who would have known that this scholarship would be guiding so many young artists into a photographic study/career?

Each year, the main fundraiser for our non-profit Weston Scholarship Fund is a silent auction of donated photographs from local and internationally renowned photographers. We will have between 40 – 50 prints in our auction this year. I reached farther out to our community of photographers asking for donations this year because I wanted it to be more of a community event. We have a wide range of photographers that donated this year including Kim Weston, Edward Weston printed by Cole Weston, Huntington Witherill, Ryuijie, Richard Garrod, Henry Gilpin, Chip Hooper, Robert Weingarten and Kenneth Parker to name just a few. Roman Loranc a central coast photographer has donated a limited 8x10 Silver Gelatin Photograph “Mount Shasta” that is now sold out and the negative has been retired.

Mission Statement

Educate and enlighten the community about the richness of photography on the West Coast.

Goals and Objectives

Keep the traditional process of the black and white photographic medium alive in the tradition of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.

Support this philosophy in our local institutions of learning – celebrating the roots of our photographic history.

Offer artists, educators, students and the community the opportunity to experience the richness of photography through exhibitions, workshops, publications, lectures, videos, artists – in – residence and scholarships.