Elise M. Billmaier Memorial Art Scholarship
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Established 2023
Elise Billmaier was a 2017 graduate of Findlay High School. She went on to Bowling Green State University to earn a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts in 2022. She was a talented artisan and made the world a better place with her creativity, smile and artistic abilities.
Elise loved playing softball and volleyball, watching the Detroit Lions, going to concerts, and making and listening to music, especially Harry Styles. She was named Findlay High School's 2017 Artist of the Year and received BGSU's Bowen Thompson Student Union Purchase Award in 2020. She listed illustration, 3-D modeling, digital painting, traditional painting, ceramics and glass as her favorite mediums.
Elise worked at the Findlay YMCA, Wolfie's and was an art history tutor at BGSU. Her hope was to become an art therapist to help people "use art as a natural coping mechanism to deal with this thing called life."
Elise's family and friends established this scholarship in her memory.
Standards for Determining Eligibility
- The applicant must be a graduating senior of Findlay High School or a non-high school senior entering their freshman year of undergraduate study who graduated from Findlay High School.
- The applicant must be a resident of Hancock County.
- The applicant must plan to be a full- or part-time student enrolled for their first year at an accredited technical, two-year, or four-year institution.
- Applicant must be a citizen of the United States of America.
- There is no minimum GPA for this scholarship.
- The basis for the award is merit only.
- The student must be pursuing visual art as a course of study (traditional art, animated art, graphic design, art education, etc.).
- Preference will be given to students with a proficiency in art.
- Any student who receives a full scholarship that includes all the fees normally payable by policy of The Community Foundation will not qualify for this Scholarship.
