Medici Circle
Supporting School of Art

 

The Medici Circle is a Lubbock community volunteer group supporting School of Art through friends-raising and fund-raising for art scholarships. Since 2005, when the group first formed, the Medici Circle has successfully created or augmented $750,000 in art scholarship endowments using funds raised to incentivize new donors with fund-matching opportunities.

On March 8, 2025 the Medici Circle staged a Soup & Champagne Supper at a local home. There were sixty persons in attendance enjoying soups made by members of the Medici Circle Council in ceramic cups made by students, faculty, and alumni of the School of Art's Ceramics Program. Proceeds from the event were added to the Medici Circle Ceramics Endowed Scholarship that was first created in 2014-2015 when the first Soup & Champagne Suppers were staged.

In 2025-2026 the Medici Circle Council has a series of events and fundraisers in the works that will provide opportunities for community members to meet School of Art students and faculty, to get more involved in the arts, and to support the creative and scholarly projects of our students. Keep and eye out for announcements for the following fundraisers.

• Prosecco & Painting with Shannon Cannings & Ghi Fremaux (December 6, 2025)
• The 2026 Soup & Champagne Supper (February 14, 2026)
• The 5x7 Art Dash Bash (April 2026, date TBA)
• Community Supported Art Shares Program (spring 2026 - TBA)

Medici Circle continues to help create new endowments each year, the numbers and amounts of scholarships available to support Art majors in all the areas at the undergraduate and graduate levels have steadily increased since 2007 when the first Medici Circle scholarship was awarded.

School of Art endowments supported by the Medici Circle include:

• Bill Lockhart Art Scholarship Endowment (2007)
• Ken Little - Medici Circle Art Scholarship Endowment (2007)
• Mrs. Linda S. & Dr. John M. Filippone, Jr. - Medici Circle Scholarship Endowment (2009)
• Terry Morrow - Medici Circle Art Graduate Fellowship Endowment (2010)
• The Willie and Eve Tate Family - James E. LaMunyon Chancellor's Council Scholarship (augmented 2011)
• Rex & Bonnie Aycock - Medici Circle Master's in Art History Graduate Fellowship Endowment (2011)
• E. Grey Lewis, Jr. Memorial - Medici Circle Art Graduate Fellowship Endowment (2011)
• Real & Muff Musgrave – Medici Circle Art Scholarship Endowment (2012)
• Donna Howell-Sickles & John Sickles – Medici Circle Art Scholarship Endowment (2014)
• Deborah Milosevich – Medici Circle Scholarship Endowment (2015)
• Medici Circle Art Scholarship in Ceramics (2015)
• The Paul D. Hanna Memorial – Medici Circle Endowed Scholarship for the Fine Arts (2016)
• Rick Dingus – Medici Circle Graduate Fellowship Endowment (2016)
• Clarence E. Kincaid Memorial Scholarship Endowment (augmented 2016)
• Cheatham/Howze Drawing Scholarship Endowment (augmented 2016)
• Tina Fuentes Painting Fellowship Endowment (2019)
• Stacy Elko Memorial – Medici Circle Scholarship Endowment in the School of Art (2022)

Join Medici Circle today. With your $75 donation you will receive an individual or family annual membership to the Medici Circle. You will receive regular announcements about exhibitions and receptions on campus as well as at the School of Art's Satellite Gallery located downtown at the Charles Adams Studio Project and receive special invitations to Prossimo Receptions for members and receive deep discounts to fundraisers and events such as the Soup & Champagne Supper, the 5x7 Art Dash, and more. Join now and your membership is good through August 2026.

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