Date/Time
Date(s) - January 26, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Location
Clyde’s of Gallery Place
The meeting this month will introduce members to the topic of Creative Placemaking. .Click here to register.
The goal of creative placemaking is to advance humanity through artistic initiatives that build healthy, strong communities. Creative placemaking is a movement of artists and designers, cultural groups and arts organizations that get out of their silos and into their neighborhoods.
Placemaking and Creative Placemaking can be transformative in uplifting communities and delivering benefits to all stakeholders – community members, government and real estate developers and their partners.
Some examples of creative placemaking are:
- An abandoned building becomes artists studios and gallery space
- An abandoned parking lot becomes an inner city soccer field, basketball court, and outdoor drive in movie
- An overgrown park becomes a place for little lending libraries, garden clubs, chess games, live music and public art
Speaker Bio
Hardy’s IBM experience – spanning 31 years between 1974 until her retirement in 2005, includes leadership roles in software development, systems engineering, and management consulting.
Hardy has served/serves on many nonprofit boards since 1980 and co-founded Millennium Arts Salon, a non-profit art education initiative, in 2000. She has been an avid collector of fine art since 1985, and with her husband, Melvin Hardy, has acquired many works of art on paper, canvas, photography, sculpture and African Art.
Ms. Hardy received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from Livingstone College. She did graduate work in Operations Research at George Washington University and is a 2006 graduate of the inaugural program, ACTiVATE – Achieving the Commercialization of Technology in Ventures through Applied Training for Entrepreneurs, at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
About
Hardy’s IBM experience – spanning 31 years between 1974 until her retirement in 2005, includes leadership roles in software development, systems engineering, and management consulting.
Hardy has served/serves on many nonprofit boards since 1980 and co-founded Millennium Arts Salon, a non-profit art education initiative, in 2000. She has been an avid collector of fine art since 1985, and with her husband, Melvin Hardy, has acquired many works of art on paper, canvas, photography, sculpture and African Art.
Ms. Hardy received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from Livingstone College. She did graduate work in Operations Research at George Washington University and is a 2006 graduate of the inaugural program, ACTiVATE – Achieving the Commercialization of Technology in Ventures through Applied Training for Entrepreneurs, at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
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