Students received their awards at ceremony on November 14.
The College of Creative Arts and Media recognized 30 students with The Valerie Canady Charitable Trust Foundation scholarship. Each year, The Valerie Canady Charitable Trust Foundation awards the scholarship to students who have a grade point average of 3.5 or above, are verbally fluent in two languages and have received three faculty letters of reference.
The foundation is named for Valerie Canady, a Morgantown native and WVU summa cum laude graduate, who was among 270 people killed in the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Valerie worked for H.J. Heinz Co. in London, and was an accomplished linguist, pianist and artist in various means of expression. Her parents, William and Loulie Canady, created the scholarship award in her honor.
“Loulie and William created it with the belief that art and language are important tools for establishing greater understanding among humanity,” said Keith Jackson, dean of the College of Creative Arts and Media. “Their dedication to honoring Valerie through these causes is an inspiration to all who look to culture as a vehicle for improving the human condition.”
This year’s recipients are:
Ruby Diana Amores - BA, Art History & Museum Professions
Maria Carmona Campo - DMA, Conducting
Kelsey Clodfelter - BA, Technical Art History
Claire Davis- BA, Technical Art History
Mingzhe Feng - DMA, Piano Performance
Grace Givens - BA, Technical Art History
Jeremiah Wayne Hines - DMA, Piano Performance
Lingqing Huang - DMA, Piano Performance
Isabel Kristina Johnson - BM, Composition
Talina Lynn Jones - BA, Art History & Fashion Design Merchandising
Zoe Keefover - BA, Art History
Supphanat Lamache - MM, Piano Performance
Hanna Noh - BM, Flute Performance
Tian Qiu - DMA, Piano Performance
José Fernando Ramirez-Macías - DMA, Flute Performance
Christian James Rhen - MA, Music Business & Industry
Isaac James Ridgely - BA, Music Industry
Samuel Rolim de Souza Araujo - DMA, Violin Performance
Shairah Sanchez - BM, Violin Performance
Huilin Shen - DMA, Piano Performance
Dominic Smith - BA, Art History
Joseph Malik Walczyk - DMA, Trumpet Performance
Claire Weydt - MA, Musicology & MM, Performance
Alton Xian Rong Wong - DMA, Piano Performance
Wenjun Xia - DMA, Piano Performance
Songting Xie - MM, Voice Performance
Jingyi Xu - DMA, Piano Performance
Muhan Zhang - BM, Piano Performance
Runyi Zhang - DMA, Collaborative Piano
Kexiang Zhao - DMA, Flute Performance
The recipients received the awards on November 14, at the Loulie, Valerie and William Canady Creative Arts Center (CCAC), which was named in their honor in 2020.
The Canady family has provided generous support to the College of Creative Arts and Media (formerly the College of Creative Arts). They played a significant role in the creation of the Art Museum of WVU and established The Canady Fund for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts, which funds arts programming, educational enrichment opportunities, building improvements and discretionary support to benefit students, faculty and staff within the college.
For more information about the The Valerie Canady Charitable Trust Foundation scholarship, visit creativeartsandmedia.wvu.edu.