Last weekend, shortly after having returned home to Michigan from New Mexico, where she’d moved some six months earlier, Ypsilanti artist Kim Demick passed away. While I considered Kim a friend, the truth is I didn’t know her terribly well. I think we first met at the Shadow Art Fair about 10 years ago now, […]
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Remembering Kim Demick
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Amanda Edmonds, cancer, Dan Hussong, dancing, David Ketchens, Donald Harrison, EAT, eulogy, Everyone Loves Raymond, fabric art, fashion, food, generosity, hair, Helen Harding, Jean Henry, Jefferson Market, Kim Demick, Margot Finn, Marti Gulkeisen, New Mexico, resiliency, Shadow Art Fair, Sleater-Kinney, Walt Whitman 16 Comments
Local entrepreneurs Jean Henry, Lisa Waud and Helen Harding on what it means to be “Small and Mighty”
We didn’t announce it until this evening, but the October recipient of the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation’s monthly $1,000 cash grant was Small & Mighty, the scrappy, little entrepreneurial support network created in the fall of 2012 by brilliant local shit-stirrers Jean Henry, Helen Harding and the cheese-loving Lisa Waud. What follows is a transcript […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Detroit, entrepreneurism, Local Business, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged A2Awesome, Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Regional Chamber of Commerce, business ethics, business owners who get it, capitalization, Cliff Bell’s, EAT, Helen Harding, Jean Henry, Jefferson Market, Lisa Waud, Michael Shuman, networking, Open City, Pot and Box, Small and Mighty, small business, Sweet Heather Anne, The Wedding Party, Think Local First, Young Entrepreneurial People 25 Comments