 The MPSGS also provides stipends for talented and deserving art students in visual arts graduating from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C..The origin of these scholarship funds was the proceeds from sales of the first miniature book on miniaturizing, "Art in Miniature", written and published by MPSGS member and past President, Margaret T. Hicks.The Society holds an "International Exhibition of Fine Art Miniatures" for six weeks in November and December at the Strathmore Hall Arts Center in North Bethesda, Maryland.