JRB Scholarship at SRU

Be sure to designate your donation to the J Robert Bruya Scholarship fund

J. Robert Bruya was a beloved, generous and eccentric professor who taught in the Department of Art  at Slippery Rock University for more than thirty years. An award winning metal smith, he was also known to many as the “Road Kill King of Western Pennsylvania,” for using bones, feathers and found objects in his work and encouraging students to learn and design from nature. He engaged students deeply in the artistic process and cared for their development as artists and as people.

The J. Robert Bruya scholarship fund was established in 2010 with generous contributions from people like you. A $900 award will be given annually to promising Art students who are selected competitively by a scholarship committee. The first award was made in 2011 to Michelle Miller, a BFA student with a teacher certification major.

J. Robert always jokingly insisted, “I don’t want a tombstone. I want to be remembered in the Art Department at Slippery Rock.” If you knew J. Robert, you know that he is hard to forget! Please help us in reaching our goal of fully endowing this scholarship, so that Bob will be remembered, and can continue to help students, in the SRU Art Department through the years to come.

To contribute to the J. Robert Bruya scholarship fund, please click on the button above, or send your check, payable to the SRU Foundation, to 1 Morrow Way, 100 Old Main, Slippery Rock, PA 16057. Please be sure to indicate the J. Robert Bruya scholarship in the memo.

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