PaperWorks Scholarship Program

The Paperworks Scholarship Program is a collaboration with the University of Arizona’s Graduate Studies in Art and Pima Community College’s Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery. This community outreach effort has been one of our Paperworks core initiatives since it inception. The Bernal Gallery, located on the Pima West campus, holds an ‘Annual Student Art Exhibition’ open to all Pima Community College’s students across their five campuses.

The faculty of the School of Art at the University select graduate students working predominantly in paper arts, allowing the program to recognize and support artists from all levels of study and within various disciplines. This collaboration also allows us to provide support and resources to supplement the efforts of staff and faculty.

You can support the fund with an individual contribution, and participate in our annual fund raising event for the scholarship program this year. Our Paperworks Board continues to build a more robust, effective and efficient program that we can all be very proud of: building community one artwork at a time.

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2026-2027 Scholarship Recipients from Pima Community College and the University of Arizona

I explore the space between observation and perception- where reality shifts, distorts, or reveals something unexpected. Working primarily in watercolor, I use transparency, layered color, and atmospheric effects to move beyond literal representation and into moments that feel remembered, imagined, or slightly unsettled. I am drawn to the tension between the familiar and the strange, and to the quiet narratives that emerge when something appears just outside what we expect. As a largely self-taught artist, I have developed personal approaches to watercolor that emphasize luminosity, flows, and expressive design. To create work that continues to reveal itself

-Terence Leach