The Art of the City Scholarship seeks to encourage and empower local youth artists of all disciplines to submit an original piece of art around the year's chosen theme.
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2026 Scholarship Submissions Now Closed!
Thank you to our 2026 Art of the City Scholarship students for your thoughtful & reflective submissions — We’re excited to view the theme of Transformation though your perspective!Â
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We are currently in the process of selecting the scholarship recipients. Keep an eye on your email and our social media @artofthecityscholarship for the upcoming announcements!
The Art of the City Scholarship seeks to encourage and empower local youth artists of all disciplines to submit an original piece of art around the year's chosen theme.
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2026 Scholarship Submissions Now Closed!
Thank you to our 2026 Art of the City Scholarship students for your thoughtful & reflective submissions — We’re excited to view the theme of Transformation though your perspective!Â
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We are currently in the process of selecting the scholarship recipients. Keep an eye on your email and our social media @artofthecityscholarship for the upcoming announcements!
OPEN STUDENT SUBMISSIONS
2026 TRANSFORMATION
Submissions now closed!
Thank you to our 2026 Art of the City Scholarship & Alumni Challenge participants for your thoughtful & reflective submissions — We’re excited to view the theme of Transformation through your perspective!
We are currently in the process of selecting the scholarship & alumni award recipients. Keep an eye on your email and our social media @artofthecityscholarship for the upcoming announcements!
WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
Now taking Alumni submissions!
Would you like to share your story and your creative journey with us? We’d love to hear about where you started, how your work has evolved, and what you’re creating now.
Selected stories will be featured on our page, allowing your journey to connect with a wider creative community.
ART OF THE CITY GALLERY
Now Open by Appointment!
Art of the City Gallery is a celebration of our Art of the City Scholarship recipients’ creative works, displayed in an interactive, rotating gallery space for VERVE residents and Creatives to enjoy.
We warmly invite you to participate in this shared creative experience. Receive one of our new Art of the City Society exclusive alumni buttons — a limited keepsake created to celebrate community, creativity, and participation.
FEATURED PAST SCHOLARSHIP THEMES
The 2025 Art of the City Scholarship welcomed the graduating classes of 4 local high schools to explore the 2025 theme, SELF.
The 2025 Creatives examined the theme of SELF through every lens — Discovering and detailing relationships between themselves and the world around us, Creatives found SELF in everyday moments & unexpected places.
​Congratulations to the graduating classes of 2025 — We're honoured by the opportunity to support our local students, and wish them our best as they continue their Creative journeys!
Our 2024 Creatives pushed their artistic boundaries in the pursuit to exemplify CHAOS. Students explored the way CHAOS is inevitable — through the mundane or the extraordinary, whether embraced or challenged.
The 2024 Creatives' submissions showcased the greatest range of artistic mediums we've seen yet, and we are thrilled by the incredible talent and creativity displayed by this year's Creatives.​
We're honoured to have the opportunity to support our fellow Creatives and wish the graduating classes of 2024 endless inspiration in their pursuits!
We are so inspired by the creativity, interpretation and conceptualization of the 2023 theme, HOPE. From poems to embroidery, sculptures to paintings, the 2023 Creatives demonstrated exceptional artistic talent and imagination.
A progression from the 2022 theme UNITY, we are inspired by the many interpretations of HOPE through original art pieces. The creatives have taken HOPE and explored, defined and deconstructed it.
We offer our sincerest congratulations to the 2023 Art of the City Scholarship Creatives, and wish them all the best in their future artistic endeavours!
We are so proud to have awarded our first Art of the City Scholarships in 2022. For our premiering year's theme, we chose: UNITY.
From fashion to film, and everything in between, each submission was an incredible journey as Semiahmoo Secondary's students explored, deconstructed and demonstrated the concept of UNITY and what it means to them.Â
We are incredibly grateful for every submission received in our inaugural year and we couldn't be more proud of our fellow creatives.Â
FEATURED PAST THEME: SELF
The 2025 Art of the City Scholarship welcomed the graduating classes of 4 local high schools to explore the 2025 theme, SELF. The 2025 Creatives examined the theme of SELF through every lens — Discovering and detailing relationships between themselves and the world around us, Creatives found SELF in everyday moments & unexpected places.
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