Calling all young scholars, creatives and community leaders: we are excited to introduce you to our program, the first and only four-year, full-tuition scholarship for Hip Hop and urban arts: First Wave!
First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Scholarship Program is a cutting-edge multicultural artistic program for students that are seniors in high school or freshmen in college that are applying to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bringing together young artists and leaders from across the United States and beyond, the First Wave Scholarship Program offers students the opportunity to live, study and create together in a close-knit, dynamic campus community, while allowing First Wave students to major in the UW-Madison department of their choosing.
The First Wave Scholarship application deadline is Feb. 5th, 2024. Please go to the First Wave Application page for additional information on the application process.
With the support of affiliated faculty, staff, and artists, First Wave students:
- develop their craft as part of a high-level artistic community alongside faculty, staff, and nationally renowned hip hop and urban artists;
- pursue their academic and career goals by studying fields that merge their artistic interests with professional development;
- engage the community in creative service-learning projects that combine multicultural arts and activism;
- showcase their talents around the campus, city, country and globe as part of the First Wave Hip Hop Touring Ensemble.
If you want to learn a little more about us, you can click here to check out an Emmy-award winning documentary about First Wave by PBS Wisconsin, click here to visit our website, or feel free to email us with any questions at fwscholarship@cdo.wisc.edu!
All the best,
First Wave