HSPVA Friends presents summer scholarships

HSPVA Friends, a nonprofit organization supporting The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, has awarded 17 students with funding for arts education over the summer.

More than $17,000 was granted to student artists working to advance their skills.

Two students received $4,000 summer scholarships from The John E. Guid a Foundation.

Shilpa Sadagopan will study songwriting or vocal performance at Grammy Camp in Los Angeles.

Faith Dagohoy will study violin at Cambridge International String Academy at Trinity College in Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Three students received $ 1,000 summer scholarships from The Ed and Birdie Dawley Educational Trust.

Emily Wolfe will study vocal music at the Vocal Academy for High School Students at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. Haley Packer will study bassoon at Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute. Audrey Griffin will study creative writing at the Iowa Summer Writing Workshop in Iowa City, Iowa.

The following students received $500 scholarships to pursue studies in their focus area: Anna Peters, Sophie Margolin, Sofia Michaelides, Margaret Fisher, Jordyn Williams, Daniel Huerta and Emma Kerr, visual arts; Jazmine Blas and Fernell Hogan, theater; Nadia Halim, Makayla Matranga-Tidwell, dance; and Chris Sommer, jazz.

Hogan also received a $ 1,000 scholarship from The Dr. R. Scott Allen Scholarship Fund and a $500 scholarship from the Dawley trust.