About

The "In Her Eyes" scholarship is a specialized opportunity aimed at supporting an Undergraduate Black Woman from Philadelphia who is currently an undergraduate student with a passion for the creative arts. The scholarship offers financial assistance to help the recipient pursue a passion project of her choice, fostering her artistic growth and creative exploration.

This scholarship is designed to uplift and support the artistic voices of Black women in Philadelphia, empowering them to create, innovate, and impact their communities in a positive light through the arts.

Applications will open soon in Spring 2026

Arianna Cabrera

Philadelphia native and Dominican born Arianna is a multidisciplinary visual artist and content creator whose work explores portraiture, identity, womanhood, and emotional connection. Centered primarily on portraits of women across cultures, her practice is driven by a deep fascination with the human face—its subtle expressions, silent emotions, and capacity to hold a story without words.

Influenced by Caribbean and Dominican aesthetics, expressive storytelling, and artists such as Kim Jung Gi, Arianna blends realism with symbolism to capture not just likeness, but essence. Her work invites viewers to feel seen, encouraging reflection on femininity, faith, and the quiet power of self-discovery. Through both physical and digital platforms, she seeks to make art accessible, intimate, and rooted in shared humanity.

Skyla Rimple

Skyla is a poet whose practice centers on translating lived experience into language that grounds, reflects, and connects. Her work functions as both personal archive and communal offering—channeling moments of beauty, difficulty, friendship, and reflection into poetry that makes emotion tangible. Writing serves as a grounding force in her life, tracing the evolution of her inner world as she moves through adulthood, identity, and belonging.

Deeply influenced by writers and musicians such as Maya Angelou, Mary Oliver, Kendrick Lamar, and Gil Scott-Heron, Skyla is drawn to poetry that holds vulnerability, history, and spirituality with care. She is particularly inspired by the way these artists weave social context, faith, and continuity into their work—allowing poems to speak to both individual experience and collective memory.