Youth Arts Grants and Scholarships

Photo by Seeley Swan Pathfinder

Are you a student interested in the arts?

Want to hone your art, dance, drama, or musical skills?
Alpine Artisans wants to help. We offer Youth Arts Grants and the annual Senior Scholarship.
Please read more about each program below by clicking on either
Youth Arts Grants or Senior Scholarships.

Our 2025 Youth Arts Grants recipients

Pearl Ployhar Violin lessons
Luke Smith 3-D printer and supplies
Thomas Smith MIDI keyboard/equipment
Abigail Smith Guitar
Stephen Smith Digital Camera
Hale Devins Bagpipe lessons
Thomas Smith Woodworking supplies

Hale and his bagpipe

Congratulations to all of the Youth Grant recipients.

Youth Arts Grants

All public and home-schooled students K-12, living in the Blackfoot or Seeley-Swan Valleys, are eligible to apply for Youth Arts Grants. The funds support expenses for instruction in arts such as visual art, graphic design, drama, dance, creative writing, film or music. Expenses may include tuition for private lessons, camps, supplies, instruments or workshops.

The Youth Grant Resources Suggestions page has a listing of opportunities that might support your interest. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader DC to view the document.

Please click on the JotForm “Online” application below to apply. You may need an adult to help you.
If you need a paper form, please contact a Scholarship Committee member listed at the bottom of the page.

Youth Arts Grant JotForm Online Application

If you can not finish the application when filling it out, click the "Save" button. You will receive an email with a link to the form. When you're ready to get back to filling out the application, click on the link at the bottom of the email.

Senior Scholarship

The 2026 Senior Scholarship application period will be available in
the middle of February with the application deadline of April 17, 2026.

The Senior Scholarship was created to support tuition or fees for post-secondary education. Eligibility includes high school students in their senior year attending Seeley-Swan High School, Lincoln High School or a home-school program residing in the Blackfoot or Seeley Swan Valley. Scholarship awards range between $500-$1000. While pursuit of an art degree is most applicable, other degree paths will be considered. If your degree path does not include an art specific degree, please be prepared to explain how the arts will enhance your educational pursuit and how you plan to stay engaged in artistic endeavors.

Last year’s 2025 Senior Scholarship recipient was
Aubrey Matthew

In her application, Aubrey wrote,

I have always been invested in the arts, whether it was drawing, painting, theater, music, and now graphic design. I have competed in promotional photography through Business Professionals of America two years, as well as practiced graphic design work in two years of yearbook, two years of entrepreneurship, and one year of graphic design electives.

I have received two Alpine Artisan grants over the years, one to participate in a Missoula Children Theatre production over the summer in Missoula when I was in Elementary school, and another this past spring to fund Adobe Indesign on my computer as I became interested in graphic design work.

I will be attending college online in the fall through Abilene Christian University majoring in Communication Sciences and Disorders as the first step to becoming a licensed speech-language pathologist. I understand that my degree does not contain an art related major or minor, however I am prepared to continue working and growing through my graphic design career.