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 provides costume designers who are enrolled in a university or professional training program with the opportunity to supplement their fine arts training in hand-drawing and painting.
“At the beginning of her career, Willa Kim wanted to be an illustrator, and she brought that passion for hand-drawing into her groundbreaking work as a costume designer,” Emilya Cachapero, TCG’s director of grantmaking programs, said in a statement. “TCG is proud to support her legacy by ensuring that future generations of costume designers will have the craft needed to realize their creative visions.”
Scholarship recipients receive up to $7,500 to be used toward tuition, registration fees, supplies, and/or travel expenses over a one-year period.
Carrasco is an interdisciplinary artist studying costume design at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She previously completed a foundation diploma in fashion and textiles at Central Saint Martins at the University of the Arts in London.
Huong is a New York-based fashion designer and artist who taught herself how to sew and pattern draft in 2020 during the Covid lockdown. Her current project, Pride and Power, Tales of Ocellus, is a collaborative multimedia effort with other artists.
The Willa Kim Costume Design Scholarship is named for the late Willa Kim, a designer of costumes for theatre, ballet, opera, and television. Kim was the recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Obie, and Emmy Awards and received lifetime achievement awards from the Fashion Institute of Technology, the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, and the Theatre Development Fund. She was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2007.
Founded in 1961, TCG leads for a just and thriving theatre ecology and represents more than 700 member theatres and affiliate organizations. Through its programs and services, TCG reaches over one million students, audience members, and theatre professionals each year.
