{"id":1416,"date":"2025-09-16T20:24:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/?page_id=1416"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:34:49","slug":"rene-morrell-empowering-black-collegiate-artists-the-rene-anna-morrell-scholarship-fund","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/home\/grantees\/rene-morrell-empowering-black-collegiate-artists-the-rene-anna-morrell-scholarship-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Morrell &#8211; Empowering Black Collegiate Artists &#8211; The Ren\u00e9 Anna Morrell Scholarship Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-text-align-center\">Ren\u00e9 Morrell \u2013 Empowering Black Collegiate Artists &#8211; The Ren\u00e9 Anna Morrell Scholarship Fund<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ren\u00e9 Anna Morrell Scholarship Fund (RAM Fund) is a philanthropic initiative that receives charitable funding to distribute unrestricted use micro-grants to Black Diaspora students enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Established in 2022, this trust-based initiative is funded through individual donors consisting of past and present Chicago residents, art patrons, artists, and arts administrators. As an artist, Ren\u00e9 understands the importance of collaboration between community and artists. The RAM Fund aims to alleviate financial strain so Black collegiate artists can continue to hone their skill while demonstrating the strength of an autonomous, community driven initiative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to growing popularity of the fund, Ren\u00e9 sought external resources to assure an efficient funding cycle. In a change this year, Ren\u00e9 offered honorariums to current MAAAP students as an incentive to serve as panelists, offering an &#8220;in-house&#8221; opportunity to gain additional administrative experience. Ren\u00e9 also invested in a photographer whose photographs will serve as the foundation for RAM Fund&#8217;s digital archive and will be used for marketing materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:3px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/145\/2025\/09\/renescholarship2025nodate.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1420\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9 Morrell \u2013 Empowering Black Collegiate Artists &#8211; The Ren\u00e9 Anna Morrell Scholarship Fund The Ren\u00e9 Anna Morrell Scholarship Fund (RAM Fund) is a philanthropic initiative that receives charitable funding to distribute unrestricted use micro-grants to Black Diaspora students enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Established in 2022, this trust-based initiative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-without-title","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1416","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416\/revisions\/1430"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/enrichmentfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}