Scholarship Funds Supporting the Brandywine Workshop
Ways you can help support Brandywine Workshop and Archives as well as Artists-in-Residence for our Visiting Artists Program.
Diane Flanagan Memorial Scholarship Fund
Diane Flanagan-Montgomery, a Philadelphia native spent most of her life working in Washington, DC. She was an enthusiastic collector and lover of the arts and was described by a former classmate as the embodiment of Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman.” Recognized as a social activist as well as a social worker, business executive, government official, and art collector. Ms. Flanagan focused her career on such issues as equal opportunity, housing, homelessness, civil rights, and urban policy.
After she died in 1997 of a brain aneurysm at age 46, her family and friends endowed a scholarship fund in her memory to benefit Brandywine Workshop and Archives in recognition of her work spearheading Brandywine’s fund-raising in the nation’s capital.
The William E. Perry Scholarship Fund
Friends and colleagues remember William “Bill” Perry as a Renaissance man with many interests, but particularly for his love of African and Caribbean arts and culture. As a founding faculty member of Temple University’s School of Social Administration, he spent nearly 25 years fashioning a nationally ranked school of social work.
Perry was also largely influenced by the arts and served for four years on the Board of the Brandywine Workshop. The Board endowed the William E. Perry Scholarship Fund through proceeds from a silent art auction including paintings and prints that were part of Perry’s collection.
The William E. Perry Scholarship Fund provides internships in printmaking at Brandywine
Jason L. Vourvoulais and Joyce De Guatemala Funds
Jason Leander Vourvoulais and Joyce DeGuatemala were a multinational couple with diverse interests, unflagging energy, and a pioneering commitment to the arts.
Jason Vourvoulais had many charitable and civic interests and was a lifelong patron of the arts. He and his wife played important roles in the founding of Juannio, an annual charity art auction to benefit the Neurological Institute of Guatemala. He also was a founder of Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala City, and served on several committees of the Chester County Art Association. They raised three children. Joyce died in 2000 and Jason passed away in 2004, after a two-year bout with pancreatic cancer. The fund created in their memory honors the couple’s creative energies.
The Jason L. Vourvoulais and Joyce DeGuatemala Scholarship Fund (established in 2004) assists women artists from Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, and other Latin American nations to study at Brandywine.
Joyce DeGuatemala Scholarship Fund
Joyce DeGuatemala created wood and steel sculptures of geometric simplicity influenced primarily by Native American mythology. She won numerous prizes and awards, and her sculptures remain a notable part of Philadelphia’s public art landscape.
After she married Jason Vourvoulais, DeGuatemala relocated to Chester County, Pennsylvania, where she began a long affiliation with the Marian Locks Gallery in Philadelphia. She also became a fixture of the local art scene, exhibiting at the Moore College of Art & Design, Lehigh University, the Noyes Museum in New Jersey, and in Fairmount Park.
She was a pioneer for women in the arts in Latin America, and never stopped trying to break down barriers for women and Latinos in the arts, even after becoming a United States citizen in 1999. She earned the respect of art critics both in Guatemala and abroad.
The Joyce DeGuatemala Scholarship Fund (established in 2000) enables Latin American women to achieve training and recognition through Visiting Artist Residencies at Brandywine.
Gerald A. Pogach Scholarship Fund
Gerald A. Pogach, a Philadelphia painter, sculptor, and educator, served on the Board of the Brandywine Workshop. A memorial exhibition of his work, curated by several of his professional colleagues and friends, was held at Brandywine in 1998. Proceeds from the sale of works at that exhibition, as well as contributions raised through the efforts of his widow, Mary Kilroy Pogach, were used to create the fund that honors him.
The Gerald A. Pogach Scholarship Fund (established in 1999) provides fellowship stipends at Brandywine for students to develop their artistic talent by working with master printmakers and/or mature artists.
You can support the Brandywine Workshop by contributing to any of these funds and in doing so, perpetuate its strong tradition of instructing and mentoring talented students, and collaborating with diverse artists of all ages.