Helen Bonzelaar Art Education Scholarship

With a career devoted to art education - both in the elementary school classroom and in the art department of Calvin College, Professor Helen Bonzelaar, emerita, knows the importance of teaching visual imagination and playful expression with visual images. This knowledge combines with her own joy in teaching art in motivating her to support an art education scholarship for students at Calvin College.   Her purpose is to advance the teaching of art.   Helen is joined by her family, friends, and colleagues and those of her late husband, Wes, to make this scholarship possible.   It will be awarded to a junior or senior art education student.

Applicants must meet the following criteria:   
• Applicant must be entering their junior or senior year.
• Applicant is a current student planning to enroll full-time the following year.
• Applicant is an Art Education Major.
• Applicant must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 (all college classes) or higher.

One scholarship of $1,700 was awarded for 2009-2010.

Applications for this scholarship are available from the Department of Art and Art History's website each February.