Fallout from cuts to UCOL in Wanganui continues with the prestigious pattillo arts scholarship, the biggest in New Zealand, coming to an end.
Pattillo director Anne Pattillo said yesterday the scholarship would no longer continue because of cuts to Whanganui UCOL's arts programme.
The scholarship, established in 2007, was to have run for 10 years. It awarded a UCOL Quay School of the Arts student a $7500 prize, the largest monetary award for art students. The money could be used to further the winner's art education in whatever way they chose. Last year's winner, Bonnie Wroe, used her prize to travel to New York, while 2009 winner Maria Martin-Smith used hers to buy a printmaking press.
Ms Pattillo said she was disappointed the scholarship was unable to continue.
"We chose Wanganui and UCOL's Quay School of the Arts because of its growing national and international reputation. The scholarship was a small attempt to nurture the creative and innovation capacity of New Zealand," Ms Pattillo said.