Please enter your name. Use the spelling, spacing, and capitalizations as you prefer. If you win a scholarship or are included in the exhibit, the name displayed with your work will be based on what you enter here.

Please indicate the best personal email address to communicate with you.

Please indicate your LACC email address to communicate with you.

Please indicate your complete mailing address. The scholarship committee uses the submitted address to mail scholarship checks in the event the submission wins a scholarship. Make sure the address, city, state, and ZIP code are included.

Please indicate the best phone number to communicate with you.

Please indicate your LACC student ID

The Henry Walton Award is currently open to receive applications for scholarship.

Please list all relevant courses you've taken at Los Angeles City College.

Include the course number, course name, instructor name, semester, and year.

Please list any relevant classes you've taken at another college.

Include the college name, course number, course name, instructor name, semester, and year.

Please submit your portfolio materials, either by uploading a portfolio PDF, or submitting a link to your online portfolio. Only work produced as part of LACC coursework is allowed for this scholarship.

Upload Portfolio PDF (maximum filesize allowed is 30MB)

When preparing a portfolio PDF, make sure you design and lay out work do be descriptive and informative. Please make sure each piece is accompanied with the following text information: Title, Medium, Year, Size (Height x Width [x Depth if applicable]), class made. Particularly important is noting which course a work was made for, please make sure to include this information.

Examples: [1] Falling Leaves, Archival Inkjet Print, 2021, 8.5 inches x 11 inches, Photo 7; [2] Balloons, Acrylic Paint, 2020, 24 inches x 24 inches, Art 305.

Links to tutorials on how to make a PDF art portfolio: From Adobe, CLIP guide, YouTube. Good luck!

Remember the maximum filesize allowed for upload is 30MB. If your portfolio PDF has to be larger, consider hosting your portfolio on cloud storage and submitting portfolio link, see next option.

Also, include your name in the portfolio filename. Example: WoodwardBernstein.PDF is better than portfolio.pdf.

Submit Portfolio Link

You may provide link to your online portfolio. Remember it can be a link to your portfolio on Google Drive, One Drive, or a web site. Make sure the website portfolio is adequately formatted for a formal portfolio review. Make sure a could storage link is set to allow anyone with link to view. Any problems with your link will mean your work is inaccessible to judges and the application is likely to not score very well in judging. Particularly important in your portfolio materials is noting which course a work was made for, for every work, please make sure to include this information.

Add Portfolio Description

You may use the description textbox if you would like to also list additional information about the works included in your portfolio. Particularly important is noting which course a work was made for, please make sure to include this information.

If you are submitting this application for the Henry Walton Award, please include an essay statement (250 words max) on how to you have overcome tremendous obstacles to pursue a photography or journalism degree at Los Angeles City College. We recommend you write your essay in another program and then cut-and-paste text into this submission textbox.

Please review these exhibition preferences, which confirm your intent to submit your work to share with others via the scholarship's exhibition and related programming, communications, and marketing.

If I win, I want my winning work to be a part of the physical exhibit at VAMA Gallery and will be prepared to bring to exhibit organizers the physical work as described in my submission materials by the artwork delivery deadlines issued by the exhibition curators.

I agree to have my submitted work exhibited online on the VAMA Gallery website and on VAMA social media.