2022 Jay Kennedy Scholarship is open for submissions!

Drawn to cartooning? You could win a $5000 scholarship from the NCSF!

October 4, 2022

After a pandemic-induced pause, the Jay Kennedy Scholarship is back for 2022 and accepting applications now!

Applicants must be students at a 4-year college in the United States, Canada or Mexico who will be a Junior or Senior during the 2022-2023 academic year. Applicants do not have to be art majors to be eligible for this scholarship.

The Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship | NCS Foundation

Along with a completed entry form, applicants are required to send 8 samples of their own cartooning artwork (copies only); noting if and where the work has been published, either in print or on the web. (See application for details.) DO NOT send original artwork.

The applications will be judged by the National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) and the number of scholarships given out and their amounts will be at the discretion of the NCSF.

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