15 Scholarships in International MFA Program to Promote In..

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - May 5, 2005 - Transart Institute announced today
that through a generous grant from Foundation M and other sources 15
scholarships amounting to $37,500 have become available to students of
their low-residency Master of Fine Arts program and non-degree summer
workshops.

Transart Institute's low-residency MFA in New Media program - the first
of its kind anywhere - offers an opportunity for working professionals
to further their career with self-directed artistic study supported by
self-chosen artist mentors and Transart Institute faculty and intensive
summer residencies including lectures, seminars, workshops, critiques,
exhibitions and performances. The unique transdisciplinary program
creates the possibility of interaction and cooperation between
performance and video artists, programmers, sculptors, vjs, curators,
painters and game designers etc. Genres include: animation,
architecture, cyberart, film, video, graphic design, installation,
interactive art, interdisciplinary art, performance art, photography,
and sound/music. The summer workshops which are an integral part of the
MFA program are open to the public by application.

Eight scholarships of $2,500 will go to accepted students of merit and
financial need and two scholarships of $5,000 are available to
candidates from East European and new EU-member countries. Five full
scholarships of $750 will be given to participants of the Transart
Institute's non-degree summer workshops which are open to all.
Recipients will be selected on the basis of creative potential as
exemplified by portfolio.

Scholarship application deadline is May 31st, 2005.

Further information is available at the Transart Institute's website:
www.transartinstitute.org