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. 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.

Within their juried process in 2024, over 100 students submitted 240 entries for a strong exhibition of 77 artworks. This exhibition has the support of many donors from across Tucson and Paperworks has the distinction of being one of the top contributors with thanks to the generosity of our members.

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.

We encourage all of our scholarship winners to introduce themselves and present their work during a member meeting and develop their skills in presentation and representing their work.

You can further 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.