Clone of High School Scholarship Application 2025 (LHS Only)

2026 High School Scholarship Application: Lexington High School

Deadline: April 1, 2026
Lexington Arts and Crafts Society is dedicated to sparking joy, enriching lives, and building community through the practice, teaching, and sharing of art and craft. Located in Lexington Center, LexArt currently has roughly 200 member artists in 9 Studios, representing a variety of art forms. LexArt holds a series of exhibits in its newly renovated Molly Harding Nye Gallery year-round, providing an opportunity for members and other local artists to exhibit and sell their work. LexArt also offers ongoing classes and workshop, both online and in-studio, open to artists and aspiring artists including teens.

Each year, since 1960, the Lexington Arts and Crafts Society offers to aspiring artists several scholarships to further their education at accredited art schools and colleges. Most of this funding is awarded to high school seniors, who are selected from candidates recommended by their school Visual Arts Departments. This year, the scholarship is open to high school seniors from Lexington, Arlington, Concord-Carlisle, Bedford, Burlington, Minuteman,Waltham, and Winchester High Schools. This webform is only for Lexington High: If you are enrolled in another school, please return to the LexArt website to find the proper form.

To make a complete application, you must (1) Apply using the on-line LHS google form and (2) Use the form below to provide the additional required materials:
- Portfolio
- List of Portfolio works (MS-Word or PDF)
- Recommendation from your art instructor
You may start filling out the form below, save it, and finish later.

DEADLINE

Your application must be submitted by Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at 11:45 pm.
PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENTS
- Digital images of a minimum of six (6) but no more than twelve (12) works with titles. May include videos (no more than 5 minutes in length).
- If not included directly with the portfolio image, please also upload a document (*.doc, *docx., or *.pdf) noting the title, original medium & dimensions for each piece.
- If submitting a video with file size exceeding the upload limits, you may instead submit a link to the file using a file-sharing service such as Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or WeTransfer. Please make sure that the access allows downloading and remains open through at least June 30, 2025.
QUESTIONS? Contact us at scholarship@LexArt.org.
I confirm that I attend Lexington High School and expect to graduate in 2026.*
We're sorry. Applications for this scholarship are open only to students enrolled at Lexington High School who expect to graduate this academic year. Thank you for your interest. If you attend another local high school, you may be elgible to apply here. If you expect to graduate from LHS next year, we invite you to apply then.

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Recommendation

We require a signed letter of recommendation from your art instructor.

You may either upload the recommendation here or have the instructor email the recommendation directly to Scholarship@LexArt.org.

Please tell us how you will submit the recommendation.
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PORTFOLIO UPLOAD
- Digital images of a minimum of six (6) but no more than twelve (12) works with titles. May include videos (no more than 5 minutes in length).
- If not included directly with the portfolio image, please also upload a document (*.doc, *docx., or *.pdf) noting the title, original medium & dimensions for each piece.
- Acceptable File Formats: pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, csv, txt, rtf, html, zip, mp3, wma, mpg, flv, avi, jpg, jpeg, png, gif.
- File size limit: 10.8 MB. If submitting a larger file, you may instead submit a link to the file using a file-sharing service such as Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or WeTransfer. Please make sure that the access allows downloading and remains open through at least June 30, 2026.
- BE PATIENT AND CAREFUL WHEN UPLOADING. Especially if you have a slow connection, be sure to allow time for the larger files to upload. You may wish to upload 1 or 2 at a time, hit the SAVE button at the bottom of the page, and then add more files.
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Image description information*

Each image in my portfolio has been labelled with the work's title, medium, and size.I have uploaded a separate file with the required descriptive information for each image in my portfolio.
FILE LINK (for large files)
Use of portfolio images. In addition to publicly announcing the recipients of scholarship awards, LexArt publicizes the awards on its webiste, in email and social media, and in press releases to local newspapers and magazines. In these announcements, LexArt typically shares one or more images of each recipient's work. LexArt does not and will not charge or receive any compensation for use of these images.
If I am a LexArt awardee, I agree that one or more of my portfolio images may be used as described above. *
APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 1, 2026

All required materials must be submitted by the deadline. If you have asked others to submit recommendation letters or a transcript directly, please check that they have done so. Mail to:

Scholarship@LexArt.org or 130 Waltham St., Lexington, MA 02421

Awardees will be announced by 5/5/26
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2026 High School Scholarship Application: Lexington High School