Beyoncé updated her website last night with the announcement of a new scholarship to honor the one-year anniversary of her groundbreaking visual album Lemonade.
The scholarship program, Formation Scholars, will help young women seeking to study creative arts, music, literature, or African-American studies and will “support young women who are unafraid to think outside the box and are bold, creative, conscious and confident.”
Four scholarships will be awarded in total to four undergraduate or graduate students at eligible schools, though only one student per school will be chosen. Beyoncé chose two historically black colleges, Howard and Spelman, and two arts-focused colleges, Berklee School of Music and Parsons School of Design, as the institutions where the scholarships are available.
The scholarships will be available for the 2017-18 academic year. Eligible students can apply through the colleges’ respective websites.
