Two-thousand-sixteen alum earns special visual arts scholarship from Paint Creek Center for the Arts.
Recent Notre Dame graduate Ella Holbert (’16) won a special scholarship this weekend as part of the Paint Creek Center for the Arts program for graduating seniors in the Detroit area.
Holbert picked up the $2,000 scholarship award Saturday, June 25, at the organization’s annual Scholarship Exhibition, which featured work from Holbert and twenty-three other high school seniors from across Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.
Holbert earned a first-place trophy in 2014 in Iowa during the International Future Problem-Solving Program competition. Holbert will be attending the University of Michigan in the fall.
“Super proud of her!” said Sandra LewAllen, Notre Dame’s visual and performing arts chair, on Saturday evening after the awards ceremony at Paint Creek’s Rochester, Mich., facility. “Ella will do very well at the next levels of her academic, arts and professional career.”
Holbert, who also is an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program candidate, will be attending the renowned Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan this fall.
Included in a host of awards and accolades earned during her high school career, Holbert earned a trophy as a Notre Dame sophomore in the annual Future Problem-Solving Program competition for her first-place finish in "scenario writing" at an international conference held at Iowa State University.
More on the Paint Creek Center for the Arts scholarship program
Since 1982, Paint Creek Center for the Arts has been nurturing aspiring young artists through its college scholarship program open to graduating high school seniors from Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties. Paint Creek demonstrates the importance of a quality art education with scholarships focused on helping students with the ever-rising cost of tuition. Typically, applicants are planning to attend an accredited college majoring in a visual-arts program. Scholarships are made possible by the Mary McCarthy Anderson Scholarship Fund and the Abrams Foundation.
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