This scholarship fund celebrates and honors the founder of CMCArts, Candia Atwater-Shields, annually on her birthday, May 4th. The scholarship fund supports admission for local youth and teens to attend CMCArts' impactful art programs.

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Each year, CMCArts will broaden the student art scholarship program to support education for artists and learning for humanities based jobs in the arts with the inspired hope that students return home to share their knowledge and contribute to the art and culture of the Virgin Islands.