As we begin 2012, we would appreciate feedback from our members
about our past year and ideas for planning future events.
Please take
a few minutes to complete a short online survey. Tell us how
you found WiD and what the organization can bring to you in the New
Year.
Complete the survey by 20 January 2012 and your name will be
entered in a raffle. Join us at Energize 2012 for your chance
to win!
Women in Design - Hampton Roads (WiD-HR) is dedicated to advancing
and supporting professional designers of our community. We inspire
one another's creativity and encourage each other's professional
growth. We unite for mentorship, education, networking, and
advocacy. Together we celebrate the talents and accomplishments of
women designers both past and present and work together towards
advancing our future. Please contact womenindesign.hr@gmail.com
for further information.
We look
forward to seeing you at our next event!
Last December Women in Design - Hampton
Roads hosted a holiday event to benefit Operation Write Home.
Serving military deployed throughout the world, Operation Write
Home collects and distributes greeting cards to troops away from
home. This non-profit organization which formed in 2009 has
sent over one million cards to American troops deployed
overseas. Women in Design - Hampton Roads attendees
participated in a holiday potluck and learned how to craft homemade
greeting cards. At the conclusion of the evening, WiD-HR
created many beautiful handmade blank greeting cards.
Attendees enjoyed an evening of holiday festivities and experienced
the joy of helping others. For more information on how
you can help Operation Write Home go to http://operationwritehome.org/index.html
Many thanks
to all those who participated and donated towards our team in the
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. We surpassed our goal of
raising $500 by nearly tripling it! In total we raised
$1,461!
If you
would like more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure
please visit their website at www.komen.org
WiD-HR
participated in United Way's Day of Caring. Volunteers spent the
day assisting The Salvation Army with projects including
landscaping, painting doors at the Corps Community Center and
painting the red kettles in preparation for the annual Red Kettle
Campaign. WiD-HR is proud to have participated in the United
Way's 20th Year celebration "Neighbors Helping Neighbors to Build a
Strong Community" Thanks to all of our generous and hard working
WiD-HR volunteers!
Sharon
Roadcap & Lorri Roadcap-Clower have created some of the
country's most innovative art glass commissions and WiD-HR got a
look behind the scenes in their studio. This mother-daughter
duo shared the evolution of their work, their process, and a
glimpse into some of their new and developing ideas. Thank
you to Kioo Glass Studio for sharing with us your wonderful
talents!
If you
would like more information about Kioo Glass Studio please visit
their website at www.kiooartglass.com
WiD-HR's
first official event was a HUGE success! Thanks to our wonderful
panel who shared insight into their successes and struggles with
starting a Woman-Owned business and for providing encouragement to
those attending for being a woman in a design profession.
As we begin
2012, we would appreciate feedback from our members about our past
year and ideas for planning future events. Please take a few
minutes to complete a short online survey. Tell us how you
found WiD and what the organization can bring to you in the New
Year.
We look
forward to seeing you at our next event!
For more information please visit http://www.csitidewatervirginia.org/
The
Virginia Society AIA is pleased to announce Michelle
Kaufmann as the 2011 Architecture Exchange East
Keynote Speaker.
Her firm,
Michelle Kaufmann Studio, recipient of the 2008 TOP FIRM AWARD by
Residential Architect, specializes in sustainable prefab design
including single family homes, eco-luxury resorts, and multi-family
communities. She is also a consultant for builders, developers and
architecture firms on sustainability and prefabrication, and an
advisor to Architecture for Humanity, and Cradle to Cradle Products
Institute.
Her book,
Prefab Green describes off-site construction and the green design
principles of Kaufmann-designed homes such as the Gli
dehouse®, the Sunset®
Breezehouse®, the mkLotus® and others. She has been called "the
Henry Ford of green homes" by the Sierra Club and was named "2009
Green Advocate of the Year" by the National Association of Home
Builders. She was also included in Business 2.0 magazine's list of
"100 People Who Matter Now," and listed as one of the "The Green
50" by INC magazine. She has been featured on the Sundance channel,
HGTV, Discovery, Planet Green and in numerous magazines including
Town+Country, Dwell, Sunset, Time, and the Smithsonian.
Kaufmann
received her undergraduate degree from Iowa State University, and
her Master's from Princeton University. A well-known and
highly-acclaimed speaker, she has taught at Iowa State University
and Woodbury University, and prior to founding Michelle Kaufmann
Designs, she was an Associate with Frank O. Gehry.
For further
information please visit
http://www.aiava.org/featured/kaufmann-announced-as-archex-keynote/
Please join
the Hampton Roads Green Building Council for a
trip to Washington DC to see . We will
tour some of the most innovative housing prototypes in the country,
including Hampton Roads' very own Team Tidewater Unit 6
house.
Fees for
this event are $35 for HRGBC members and WID-HR members, $40 for
non-members and $45 for everyone on the day of the event.
Pre-registration is required. There are only 55 seats on the
bus, so register early before it is sold out!
Register
here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2140660774
Please contact
Donna Wilgus at 757-214-6732 or admin@hrgbc.org with any questions.
For more information on the DOE Solar Decathlon visit: http://www.solardecathlon.gov/index.html.
For more information on Team Tidewater's Unit 6 house visit: http://teamtidewatervirginia.com/index_ie8.html
We hope you will join
us!
Join on
September 15 at 6:00 pm for a conversation with
Michelle Braden, founder of The Emerging Executive
Leadership Program and The Authentic Leadership Summit.
Michelle Braden is the CEO of MSBCoach, member of the
ICF (International Coach Federation). She is
passionate about collaborating with leaders and their organizations
to discover and reach potential they did not think was possible.
Michelle is the founder of The Emerging Executive Leadership
Program and The Authentic Leadership Summit.
Through Michelle's leadership, the team at MSBCoach partners
with leaders to give feedback, support and accountability to
produce life-long results. Michelle has worked in
organizational development, training and coaching for over 17 years
with organizations such as UVA, General Dynamics, Morgan Keegan,
Lexis Nexis and many others as well as the developer of the award
winning Charlottesville Leadership Develop Academy.
Please rsvp
at womenindesigncharlottesville@gmail.com
Please join Virginia Women in
Design on Friday, September 9th for
Location: Carole Weinstein International Center,
Richmond Way, University of Richmond. (Campus map will be provided
upon RSVP)
Time:
5:30-7:30pm
Women
in Design Hampton Roads this is your time to Design your heart
out!!!
The Tidewater Builders Association (TBA) of Hampton
Roads is calling all designers to assist with a Designer's Home for
Homearama 2011.
This year,
TBA has presented more than $69K in scholarships to thirteen
students in the Hampton Roads area who are pursuing futures in the
design industry.
WiD
is partnering with TBA to mentor Students of TCC and AI to create a
home for Homearama 2011.
Women in Design Hampton Roads is partnering with Tidewater
Builder's Association to mentor design students as they create
rooms for the Homearama 2011 House. The mentoring is opened to
everyone on a voluntary basis. Mentors are needed for the month of
August while the students of TCC and Art Institute of Virginia
Beach are designing their rooms for space planning, furnishing and
color selections and incorporating creativity into the overall
concept. If you are interested in volunteering please let us know
via email at womenindesign.hr@gmail.com.
Student/mentor pairing is happening now.
Watch as we
all move toward creating a spectacular house - the event is
scheduled to be marketed in the papers, in the local media, on line
and ofcourse on facebook! With the final completion of the design
executed by the future designer and their mentor, the "Designer's
Home" will be on display at Homearama 2011, October 15-30 in the
Riverfront area of Harbor View in Suffolk.
Virginia Society
VSAIA is
currently accepting scholarship applications for young architects,
AIA Associates, and AIAS members to attend this year's Arc
hEx Expo in Richmond Virginia November 2nd thru
4th. This is an incredible opportunity to have full access to
all that ArchEx has to offer - educational seminars, product
showcases, keynote speaker Michelle Kaufman's lecture, and three
incredible Women in Design Seminars. VSAIA is looking for
dedicated and knowledgeable professionals to capture and share the
event contents via various multi-medias such as blogging,
videocasts, and summary articles. Applications are due August
15th. Go to http://www.aiava.org/featured/aia-offers-archex-scholarship
for more information and to download an application.