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Keith and Win Shantz Summer Internship

The Keith and Win Shantz Summer Internship is funded by a generous donation from Win Shantz, a prominent Waterloo supporter of the arts. Each year, four second-year M.F.A. students spend six weeks of the summer months working as assistants in a professional artist's studio. Each student receives a $5000.00 scholarship and a stipend of $2000 CDN to cover accommodation, living and travel expenses. On completion of the internship, students devote the balance of the semester to developing their work in their own studios.

This innovative program provides students with the unique opportunity to travel, to experience the wide range of activities of professional artists, and to gain some valuable insight into the "business" of making art along the way. Now going into its eighth year, the Keith and Win Shantz Summer Internship has proven to be mutually beneficial to our students and the participating artists alike. To date, our students have worked with renowned artists such as Kim Adams, David Batchelor, Martin Creed, Thomas Demand, Stephen Ellis, Ceal Floyer, Nicola Hicks, John Hartman, Philip Pearlstein, Thomas Scheibitz, Jana Sterbak, and Donald Sultan, to name only a few.

2011 Shantz Internships

Shauna Born
Linda Martinello
Rob Nichols
Joshua Peressotti

2010 Shantz Internships

Gary Carlson
Heidi Jahnke
Alison Sheilds

2009 Shantz Internships

Michael Capobianco
Dyan Marie
Sasha Nelson
Shannon Partridge

 

2008 Shantz Internships

Colin Carney
Scott Everingham
Nathalie Quagliotto
Ram Samocha
Miranda Urbanski

2007 Shantz Internships

Monika Raciborski
Cameron McKnight-MacNeil
Joanna Roznowski
James Olley

2006 Shantz Internships

Richard Rizzo
Emmy Skensved
Stephanie Bush
Dawn Stafrace

2005 Shantz Internships


Rick Nixon
Susy Oliveira
Francois Xavier Saint-Pierre
Cesar Forero-Garcia