The Joy Kingston Foundation® helps talented young men and women blaze the trail of design by providing them with the inspiration and assistance to achieve their goals in the Fine Arts. The Foundation’s mission is to provide scholarship opportunities to promising individuals who wish to pursue careers within the design industry. The Foundation scholarships are intended to promote and foster the elements of the Fine Arts encompassed by and utilized within the design profession.

Joy Kingston was passionate about design in all forms. As a fashion designer, every element of her life involved her quest for fine design. Whether it was fashion design, interior design, or even products she purchased such as jewelry or automobiles, Joy could articulate her keen sense of style and imprint it upon everything she touched.

It is with this intent that the Joy Kingston Foundation was created. The Foundation will perpetuate Joy's legacy in fine design. Our goal is to assist in cultivating the next generation of designers in reaching their full potential within the career paths of design.

The Joy Kingston Foundation® is an organization that will help young men and women blaze the trail of design. It is the Foundation's goal to inspire and assist talented young people to achieve their goals in the Fine Arts. The mission of the Joy Kingston Foundation is to provide an opportunity for arts education and scholarship to individuals in the pursuit of careers within the design industry. The Foundation scholarships and Joy Kingston's fashion and design legacy are intended to promote and foster the elements of the fine arts encompassed and utilized within the design profession.

Foundation Activities A Donation from the Alfred Parvin Foundation The Joy Kingston Foundation® gratefully acknowledges a generous donation of $10,000 received in 2014 from the Alfred Parvin Foundation in Los Angeles, CA. The Alfred Parvin Foundation believes deeply in supporting education, especially in the arts, and has a long history of providing scholarships to students. This donation will enable the JKF to provide scholarship money to several deserving students pursuing a future in the world of design. The JKF appreciates the generosity of the Alfred Parvin Foundation and will put the funds to good use supporting our designers of the future.

Art is 100 at UFMA : Portrait of Natacha Rambova

To kick off the year-long Art is 100 celebration in spring of 2014, the Utah Museum of Fine Art featured a painting which was originally presented to the museum in 1949 by Rambova's mother, Mrs. Winifred Hudnut. When Rambova learned that this portrait would be on display for the UMFA's 1951 opening, she immediately wrote to the museum director, asking that her name not be attached to the work. She cited concerns that her support of the new museum would conflict with funding she was receiving to study Egyptian art. Family history, however, suggests another reason: While sitting for the portrait in 1925, Rambova wore a very bohemian outfit, much to her mother's displeasure. Mrs. instructed painter Pavle Jovanovic to substitute what was, in her view, a more suitable dress. Rambova never liked the result. The portrait was on view for the first time since the frame was restored in 2012 through a gift from the Joy Kingston Foundation and its Chairman Paul Matthew Layne. . [See More..].

Collaboration with Liz Gordon of Liz's Antique Hardware in Los Angeles, CA

The Joy Kingston Foundation® in collaboration with Liz Gordon of Liz's Antique Hardware in Los Angeles, CA is please to announce the availability of financial aid scholarships for college students. Students must be currently enrolled in an accredited lighting or hardware design college program. Additional scholarships shall also be available in other relevant lighting and hardware related career disciplines.

Donation for scholarship given to the Art Center College of Design

ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN 
April 18, 2013: Stewart Reed, Chairman of Transportation Design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA received a donation from Paul Matthew Layne, Chairman of the Joy Kingston Foundation for Transportation Design Scholarship. 


Joy Kingston Foundation® Donates to Pastor Davis

On behalf of the Pastor Davis Scholarship Fund, and its student beneficiaries across the state of Utah, please accept our great thanks for your generous gift of $5,000 from the Joy Kingston Foundation. We recognize that this gift is to be awarded as a scholarship to a student who is interested in majoring in one of the design fields. As you know, the needs are great within this community and your gift will be used to provide scholarships to deserving students with financial need and academic merit.

We will solicit applications based on your criteria and award the scholarship for the 2012-13 school year. Again, thank you for your generosity and support.

- Kathleen Christy, Administrator

Pastor France A. Davis Scholarship Fund