Washington DC
Date
Sunday, September 18, 2011
11am to 5pm
Location
Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th and F Streets, N.W. Washington
DC 20004
**Registration onsite
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10:30am – 11:00am – Meet and Greet Coffee, craft and registration!
Location: Courtyard
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11:00am – 11.15am – Welcome – Kyla Fullenwider
Location: Auditorium
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11:15am – 12.00 noon – Keynote: John Maeda
*This talk will be livestreamed via Etsy’s online labs
Location: Auditorium -
12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch
Location: Courtyard encouraged!
Craft, chat and have lunch in our courtyard, discounted lunch available in the Courtyard Cafe
Location: tbd -
12:15pm – 12:45pm Yoga Session 1
Location: Multipurpose room
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1:00pm – 1:30pm Yoga Session 2
Location: Multipurpose room
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1:30pm – 2:15pm Keynote: Jenny Hart
Location: Auditorium
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2:30pm – 3:30pm Workshops
What is a locla living economy with BALLE
Location: TBDBasic Financials for the Creative Community with the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum and Evelyn Bandoh
Location: TBDStream of Hello Etsy Content: Tony Greenham- Business as if People and the Planet Mattered
Location: Auditorium -
3:45pm – 4:45pm Workshops
It’s All About Who You Know with Ilise Benun, Freelancers Union
People buy from people they know and like. And one of the most effective ways to build your own business, whether online or off, regardless of the state of the economy, is networking: getting to know others and making it easy for them get to know you, even if you consider yourself shy or introverted. This interactive session provides simple strategies and practical tips for developing and nurturing relationships with everyone you come across—because you never know who your next customer will be.
Location: TBDMaking Money Should be Beautiful with Tara Gentile, Scoutie Girl
Love making your craft and practicing your art? Hate that you have to be “in business” to make it worth your while? Think selling your craft means settling for less dough in the bank? Radically reframe your relationship with cash and sales. Tara Gentile shows you how making money can be just as beautiful as the art your create and why you, artist, are a hot commodity.
Location: TBDStream of Hello Etsy Content: Session: Natalie Chanin- Connecting Your Business to Your Community
Location: Auditorium
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5.00pm – Closing Remarks, Nicholas Bell
Location: Auditorium
Speaker Bios
John Maeda (@johnmaeda) is a world-renowned artist, graphic designer, computer scientist and educator whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology. For over a decade, he has worked to integrate technology, education and the arts into a 21st-century synthesis of creativity and innovation. A recipient of the National Design Award and represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Maeda became president of Rhode Island School of Design in June 2008.
He seeks to connect RISD to political, economic, social, and business spheres where artists and designers make a difference, and has prioritized scholarships to ensure the broadest possible access to a RISD education.Maeda taught media arts and sciences at MIT for 12 years and served as associate director of research at MIT Media Lab. His books include The Laws of Simplicity, translated into 14 languages. Redesigning Leadership (2011, with Becky Bermont) expands on his Twitter posts. In 2008 Maeda was named one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire and in 2010 he was called the “Steve Jobs of academia” by Forbes.
Jenny Hart is the founder and sole proprietor of revolutionary, Texas-based embroidery design company, Sublime Stitching. In 2001, Jenny introduced a new approach to embroidery with patterns of tattoos, robots, pinups and other non-traditional themes to a weary and declining needlework market that was stuck in a time-warp of teddy bears and bunnies. Before launching Sublime Stitching, Hart first received international attention for her fine art and portraits in embroidery which have been exhibited and published throughout Europe, South America, Mexico, and Japan. Her work has been featured in publications that include SPIN, Real Simple, Rolling Stone, Vogue (Italy) BUST, ReadyMade, The New York Times, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal and many others.
Hart’s hand-embroidered portraits are included in many private and public collections that include Carrie Fisher, Laura Dern, comedian Tracey Ullman and Elizabeth Taylor.
Jenny lives and works in Austin, Texas, where she is a founding member of the infamous Austin Craft Mafia, the original group that inspired an international network of Craft Mafias. Despite a hectic schedule, Jenny runs Sublime Stitching full blast with the help of a small staff, but couldn’t possibly do it without the direct support of stitchers everywhere.The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation’s first collection of American art, is an unparalleled record of the American experience. The collection captures the aspirations, character and imagination of the American people throughout three centuries. The American Art Museum is the home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal key aspects of America’s rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today.
Thank you so much to Capitol Region Etsy Streat Team (CREST) for volunteering to help make Hello Etsy a vibrant, fun and friendly representation of our wonderful community. You can find out more about this local Etsy Team here.
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