Baker Duncan Scholarship Application Procedures for the Art History Program

The Department of Art & Art History now has available a Baker Duncan Scholarship for incoming first-year students who intend to major in art history. Awards range from $2,000 to $5,000 and are renewable for up to eight semesters (see details below).

Application Procedures

Applicants should submit the following:

1) An application essay (maximum 500 words) that addresses interests and motivation to study art history. For your application essay, please respond to one of the following prompts:

A. Describe a meaningful encounter you have had with a work of art or architecture, a museum installation, or a curated exhibition. What was it about the experience that inspired you? If you had to communicate to others the broader significance of your personal experience, how might you do so?

B. What do you think are some necessary skills for an art historian to possess in order to understand artworks (painting, sculpture, architecture, photography)? How have you attempted to develop these skills (for example, through reading, travelling, looking, writing, etc)?

C. What are your ideas about the relationship between art and society today? Does an art historian have a particular role to play in communicating the significance of art to others? If so, what is that role?

Include in this application statement any museum or internship experience that you have had. Please also include your full name, postal address, telephone number and email address.

2) List of courses taken in art history and related disciplines (e.g., history, foreign languages and literatures, anthropology, classics, etc.);

3) Current g.p.a.

4) Current résumé.

The deadline for consideration is 1 March 2010. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.



The Baker Duncan Scholarship in Art History is renewable for up to eight semesters, excluding summer, on condition that the recipient becomes and remains a major in art history and maintains full-time enrollment and a cumulative 2.0 g.p.a.

For further information on the Department of Art & Art History and the Baker Duncan Scholarship in Art History, please contact:

Mark B. Garrison
Alice Pratt Brown Professor in Art History

Department of Art & Art History
1 Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212
210-999-7648
mgarriso@trinity.edu