Fourth year interior design student Maggie McCoy was awarded the 2018 Angelo Donghia Foundation Senior Student Scholarship Award. McCoy is one of 12 candidates to receive this national prestigious award.
Annually, the Angelo Donghia Foundation invites two students from each interior design program with Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) to submit scholarship applications. This year, the foundation received 69 student projects for consideration. In the last 14 years, the College of Architecture’s Interior Design Program has had eight recipients of this highly competitive national award. The merit-based scholarship, which has a value of up to $30,000, is determined by a jury comprised of nationally renowned interior design professionals, interior design educators and interior design editors.
“When students from our college are repeatedly recognized at a national level, it speaks volumes to the talent of our students and the dedication and caliber of our award winning faculty,” said Dean Katherine Ankerson.
McCoy’s winning submission was titled “Nebraska Art Therapy Collective” a project from the IDES351 design studio taught by Lecturer Erin Miller and mentored by Interior Design Associate Professor and Program Director Lindsey Bahe.
The project proposes the creation of a built environment designed to retain the creative class in rural American communities by providing a place for healing, learning and self-discovery through expressive arts therapy. The concept aims to not only foster people of the creative class, but also to provide ample job opportunities that are otherwise unavailable in the rural market.
McCoy is from Omaha, Nebraska, and is entering her senior year in the Interior Design Program at the UNL College of Architecture.
The Angelo Donghia Foundation, created under the will of the Angelo Donghia, is a private, nonprofit organization that supports two distinct fields: The advancement of education in the field of interior design and initiatives researching AIDS.
Since its launch, including the amounts to be distributed to the scholarship winners, the foundation has awarded in excess of $15,000,000 to the above causes.
