Award is for research, travel, and scholarship related to Hilla Rebay and her associates. Applicant must be accepted for a summer internship.

Award is a nine-month internship with three months each at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. Preference is given to doctoral-level applicants. Fluency in English, Spanish, and Italian required.

Dissertation research must focus on European art before 1900. Applicant must be pre-doctoral in the history of art. Applicant must be U.S. citizen or matriculated at an American university. Two-year research appointment in association with one of a list of foreign institutes.

Applicant must have attended a Kentucky high school and plan to major in art or art history.

Applicant must plan to major in art or art history.

Applicant must execute an interview on Strassler Scholars Day in February.

Applicant must be a senior who has a minimum 3.0 GPA and who has demonstrated the finest qualities of leadership through participation in campus organizations and has rendered service of significant benefit to the campus community.

Selection is based upon financial need. Preference given to freshmen majoring in studio art, art history, new media design, music, musical theatre or theatre.

Applicant must have a minimum overall GPA of 3.0 and a minimum 3.2 GPA in art history coursework. Applicant must have earned distinction in art history courses or display great promise as an art history major.

Applicant must have the highest average in their art history courses.

Applicant must be in good academic standing and submit a portfolio and the appropriate application.

Applicant must be specializing in the history of painting and preference will be given to the applicant in need of financial aid.