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Interior Design Students Awarded Angelo Donghia Foundation Scholarships
Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009, by Sarah Owens
Two California College of the Arts (CCA) Interior Design students—Breanne Bumanlag and Ginny Uyesugi—were each awarded top honors in the prestigious 2009 Angelo Donghia Foundation Senior Scholarship Award competition. The scholarship provides the students with up to $30,000 each to complete their senior year (2009–10).
The Angelo Donghia Foundation Senior Scholarship Award, based on academic merit and financial need, is awarded to interior design students by the Angelo Donghia Foundation, created by the estate of the late Angelo Donghia, a prominent New York interior designer.
Uyesugi's entry was a guerilla-type architectural transformation of an alley or vacant lot into a hair-and-style academy, Beauty-for-All Style Academy (BASA). For her entry, Bumanlag designed a brick-and-mortar iTunes retail store intended for downtown San Francisco. "This project proposes to translate the time-based experience of the online iTunes store into a physical retail space," she elaborates. "By doing so, the human element is reintroduced in a way that allows for social connections with other music lovers as well as live performances, both of which are void in the virtual store environment."
The recent scholarship honor marks neither student's first scholarship.
Bumanlag won an International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Honor Award Scholarship this year as well as scholarships from the Crocker House in Sacramento, the CCA President's Scholarship, the CCA Creative Achievement Award, a Carmen Christensen Scholarship, and the Hedge Gallery Steven Volpe Scholarship.
Uyesegi was awarded the Council for Interior Design Accreditation's (CIDA) Keith Hooks Scholarship in 2009 and was the CCA student president to the International Interior Design Association (IIDA). She's also currently working on connecting alumni with students, developing a campuswide project to make sketchbooks from recycled printer paper, and assisting Interior Design chair Katherine Lambert to plan a SEED lecture that focuses on sustainable design practices.
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Ginny Uyesugi’s Keith Hooks Scholarship Win
Breanne Bumanlag's IIDA Honor Award
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