Junior School Scholarships
The Glassell Junior School offers scholarships through two opportunities each year: the Portfolio Competition in March, and the Outdoor Sketching Competition in April.
Portfolio Competition
2025 Digital Portfolio Competition | Friday, March 7, 2025
The Glassell Junior School offers scholarships through a digital portfolio competition to elementary and middle school students up to age 14. Scholarship awards are for one weekly class beginning with the fall semester in September 2025. Classes are available on weekdays after school, and also on Saturday and Sunday. Scholarship students may pick the class in their age group that best fits their schedule.
Scholarships for the 2025–26 School Year
The competition is through digital submission only—physical student artwork is not accepted.
- Good quality jpeg images of 8 to 10 pieces of original student work must be submitted via email on Friday, March 7, 2025. Send your completed application along with images to portfolioapplications@mfah.org.
- Students should include only their best and most recent work, completed in the previous 18 months.
- The application must accompany your images. Forms must be filled out completely and legibly. Incomplete applications, and those with an insufficient number of images, will not be considered. Applications received outside of March 7 will not be considered.
- If you are a current Junior School student, please check with your instructor for any additional requirements.
- Winners are notified by mail, by the end of April. Thank you for your participation!
Please do not call for names of winners. Email juniorschool@mfah.org for additional assistance.
► Download the 2025 Portfolio Competition application form to include with your submission.
Outdoor Sketching Competition
The Glassell Junior School offers scholarships for students ages 10 to 12 through a sketching competition. Scholarship awards are for one weekly class beginning with the fall semester in September 2025. Classes are available on selected weekdays after school, and also on Saturday and Sunday. Scholarship students may choose the class in their age group that best fits their schedule.
Application Process
- Students are invited to visit the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden or The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza at 5101 Montrose Boulevard to sketch an object, scene, or sculpture of their choice during business hours from Friday, April 11, through Thursday, April 17, 2025.
- Parents must accompany children at all times and adhere to all posted safety protocols.
- Participants supply their own sketching materials.
- Qualifying sketches are pencil drawings (no colored pencils, markers, pens, etc.) on recommended paper size 11x17 inches. Students are encouraged to fill the page!
- Submit completed sketches, along with the application, to the Junior School office during business hours April 11–17, 2025.
- Winners are notified by mail no later than Friday, May 9, 2025.
Please do not call for names of winners. Email juniorschool@mfah.org for additional assistance.
► Download the 2025 Outdoor Sketching Competition application form to include with your submission.
The Glassell Junior School scholarship program receives generous funding from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, and Wells Fargo.