College of Fine and Applied Arts

Interior design student Alexandra Koury has received a Construction Professionals Network (CPN) scholarship.

CPN established the annual scholarship to assist in the education of the future leaders of the construction industry and to create an alliance between themselves and the North Carolina institutions that provide construction industry education. 

The scholarship is rotated annually to a student enrolled at Appalachian, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte or Western Carolina University. 

The scholarship award is $1,000 each semester for the Fall and Spring semesters totaling $2,000. Recipients must be a United States citizen; paying in-state tuition; a junior, senior or fifth year student; and pursing a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, Construction Management, Business, Engineering, or Land Surveying in preparation for a career in the construction industry. 

 

The Furniture Foundation for the 2007-08 academic year increased its funding for scholarships at Appalachian State University from $18,000 to $24,000.

The eight $3,000 scholarships will go to qualifying Department of Technology students pursuing the Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Design - Furniture Design with a minor in Marketing.

“The Furniture Foundation is proud to continue our support of this multi-disciplined degree track at Appalachian,” said Andy Counts, chief executive officer of the Furniture Foundation and the American Home Furnishings Alliance, who serves as administrator of the Foundation. “This program continues to provide qualified professionals for the furniture industry.”

The Industrial Design – Furniture Design program prepares students as professional designers and provides experience with various technologies and materials as they relate to creative work, analysis, manufacturing and problem-solving to design and market creative and useful furniture.

“These scholarships assist Appalachian in continuing to provide highly skilled designers for the furniture market,” said Dr. Glenda Treadaway, dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts which houses the Department of Technology. “We are grateful to the Furniture Foundation for its continued investment in the future of our students and the furniture industry.”

The Furniture Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded to support research and educational programming aimed at improving management, manufacturing and marketing within the residential furniture industry. It has distributed more than $3 million in scholarships and grants since 1990.

Headquartered in the Furniture Capital of the World, High Point, North Carolina, AHFA represents more than 200 of the industry’s leading manufacturers who make everything from bedroom and dining room suites to upholstered sofas and chairs to outdoor furniture.

For more information about the Industrial Design – Furniture Design program, visit www.tec.appstate.edu.  

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Three Appalachian Technology students walked away with a first place win and two honorable mentions at the bi-annual Association of Woodworking and Furniture Suppliers (AWFS) Fresh Wood student competition July 19 in Las Vegas. 

Michael Poorman took first place in the open category with his piece, “Genesis.” Ashley Hilton received an honorable mention in the casegoods category with her piece, “Brick House,” and Phil Hull also received an honorable mention in the open category for “Down the Drain.” 

The awards gala was hosted by Richard Karn, best known as Tim Allen’s sidekick “Al” from the long-running sitcom “Home Improvement.” A highlight of the evening was the special rap performance by “MC Fresh Wood” (also known as AWFS® intern and Appalachian furniture studies student, Thomas Tuck). MC Fresh Wood (complete in wooden sunglasses) and “Rapper Richard Karn” provided a unique introduction to the Fresh Wood awards portion of the ceremony. The two kept the audience entertained by offering a humorous and upbeat history of the competition. 

By the end of the night, 38 awards were presented to 34 students in the Fresh Wood competition; a total of $23,750 in prize money was distributed. 

Judging for the 2007 Fresh Wood Student Competition began in May with 210 initial entries from 41 different schools from the United States and Canada. The entries were rated by a panel of 10 judges that represent five different aspects of the industry: design, education, manufacturing, retail, and trade press. Out of the 200 plus entries, 58 finalists from 27 schools were selected to proceed to Las Vegas for final judging at the AWFS®Fair. AWFS® covers finalists’ shipping and the majority of costs to bring students and their teachers to the Fair. 

All finalists will be featured in the third volume of Fresh Wood, which will be available in January 2008. Order forms are available at awfs.org. 

For more information about the Furniture Design program at Appalachian, visit www.tec.appstate.edu. 

Spencer Black, a technology student in the Graphic Arts and Imaging Technology program, received first place for his web page design at the 82nd International Graphic Arts Education Association student competition held on the campus of Rochester Institute of Technology, July 22 - 26.

Spencer’s winning entry is based on two assignments from the Advanced Electronic Imaging class taught by Dr. John Craft. The URL to his winning site is  http://www.gilmoreplant.com/. Visitors to the site can click on the image thumbnails to see a unique way of viewing a larger version of the image.

The website is for a nursery business owned by the parents of Mary Gilmore, a technical photography student, who provided the photography for the site. Their efforts on the web page fit the overall theme of the conference– collaboration.

The Gutenberg Award recognizes exceptional achievement in the field of Graphic Arts. Awards are available for printed items, Web sites, and photographs. Entries may be submitted by graphic arts students at any educational level including those in university, college, community-college, post-secondary technical school, high school vocational, high school technology education, and junior high/middle school technology education programs. There are three different Gutenberg competitions: Print, Web Site, and Photography.

The International Graphic Arts Education Association (IGAEA) is an association of educators in partnership with industry, dedicated to sharing theories, principles, techniques and processes relating to graphic communications and imaging technology.