AMERICAN THEATRE | Camilla Carrasco, Lana Huong Obtain Willa Kim Costume Design Scholarships

NEW YORK CITY: Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has named Camilla Carrasco and Lana Huong the recipients of the 2024 Willa Kim Costume Design Scholarship. The scholarship offers costume designers who’re enrolled in a college or skilled coaching program with the chance to complement their effective arts coaching in hand-drawing and portray.

“At the start of her profession, Willa Kim needed to be an illustrator, and she or he introduced that keenness for hand-drawing into her groundbreaking work as a fancy dress designer,” Emilya Cachapero, TCG’s director of grantmaking applications, stated in an announcement. “TCG is proud to assist her legacy by guaranteeing that future generations of costume designers can have the craft wanted to appreciate their artistic visions.”

Scholarship recipients obtain as much as $7,500 for use towards tuition, registration charges, provides, and/or journey bills over a one-year interval.

Carrasco is an interdisciplinary artist finding out costume design at New York College Tisch Faculty of the Arts. She beforehand accomplished a basis diploma in style and textiles at Central Saint Martins on the College of the Arts in London.

Huong is a New York-based clothier and artist who taught herself sew and sample draft in 2020 in the course of the Covid lockdown. Her present venture, Pleasure and Energy, Tales of Ocellus, is a collaborative multimedia effort with different artists.

The Willa Kim Costume Design Scholarship is known as for the late Willa Kim, a designer of costumes for theatre, ballet, opera, and tv. Kim was the recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Obie, and Emmy Awards and acquired lifetime achievement awards from the Style Institute of Expertise, the US Institute for Theatre Expertise, and the Theatre Improvement Fund. She was inducted into the Theatre Corridor of Fame in 2007.

Based in 1961, TCG leads for a simply and thriving theatre ecology and represents greater than 700 member theatres and affiliate organizations. By way of its applications and providers, TCG reaches over a million college students, viewers members, and theatre professionals annually.

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