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 gives costume designers who’re enrolled in a college or skilled coaching program with the chance to complement their fantastic arts coaching in hand-drawing and portray.

“In the beginning of her profession, Willa Kim needed to be an illustrator, and she or he introduced that zeal for hand-drawing into her groundbreaking work as a fancy dress designer,” Emilya Cachapero, TCG’s director of grantmaking packages, mentioned in a press release. “TCG is proud to assist her legacy by making certain that future generations of costume designers can have the craft wanted to comprehend their inventive 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 learning 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 dressmaker and artist who taught herself easy methods to sew and sample draft in 2020 throughout the Covid lockdown. Her present undertaking, 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 Vogue Institute of Expertise, america Institute for Theatre Expertise, and the Theatre Growth 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 its packages and providers, TCG reaches over a million college students, viewers members, and theatre professionals every year.

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