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Lantos Activist Artist Scholarship

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Due: February 28, 2026

No min. GPA required

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Lantos Activist Artist Scholarship, with an application deadline in February, offers 14 awards that vary in amount.

Description

As part of the foundation's Global Citizenship work, the Lantos Foundation is committed to supporting, encouraging, and recognizing the work of Artist Activists who tell human rights stories in ways that are unique, inspiring and significant. The Activist Artist Scholarship was launched in 2020 with a grant from Bank of New Hampshire as an annual competition dedicated to the work of Activist Artists all over the world. Students are challenged to examine the influence of an Activist Artist's work on a particular human rights issue or create and submit their own Activist Art. Students are encouraged to seek inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the seminal document enshrining the rights and freedoms of all human beings. It is also the foundation's hope that the students will look outside of the United States to consider issues that arise in countries where democracy does not prevail and where authoritarianism and lack of press freedom often mean that human rights violations happen without any consequences for the abusers. Applicants must be high school seniors. Category 2 of the award provides students with the opportunity to show the same influence and inspiration by submitting an original piece of art, music, dance, or written form of original work focused on a human rights issue. Please visit the scholarship's website for more information.

Lantos Activist Artist Scholarship

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