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Aspiring artists get major boost from Spanish-Jamaican Foundation, EMC

Published:Sunday | July 21, 2013 | 12:00 AM
Four of the five scholarship recipients, (from left) Nadette Grant, Deidre McKenzie, Joshua Jones and Richard Campbell receiving scholarship letters from Celsa Nuño, ambassador of Spain to Jamaica and president of The Spanish-Jamaican Foundation, alongside Vice-Principal Miss Denise Salmon, Arts Foundation directors, Stephen Facey and Camille Facey and Arts Foundation Chair Pat Ramsay. - Contributed

Kingston:

The Embassy of Spain and The Spanish-Jamaican Foundation in collaboration with the Arts Foundation of the Edna Manley College (EMC) awarded scholarships valued at J$125,000 each to five talented students from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in a handing over held on the college campus earlier this week.

The students, one each from five of the college's schools, were awarded the scholarships based on the criteria of being Jamaican citizens currently enrolled in a programme of study at the college with financial need and having a GPA of 3.0 or above. Recipients were also chosen based on their display of good citizenship at the college.

The scholarships were awarded from the proceeds of An Evening of Jazz Flamenco Fusion with the CMS Trio, a fundraiser held last November by the Arts Foundation of the Edna Manley College in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain and the Spanish-Jamaican Foundation. The event raised a total of J$1.3 million to fund the education of aspiring artists at the college.