Webinar: The Essence of Place: How to Placemake Anywhere

FREE Webinar
for Mid-America EDC Members

The Essence of Place: 
How to Placemake Anywhere

Learn examples of creative placemaking that can work in any size town or city from Kady Yellow. Yellow is a placemaker focusing on the power of art, music and culture through bringing together people, places and programs as an effective process for economic development and downtown revitalization.

Presenter:
Kady Yellow, Director of Placemaking for The What's Up Downtown Project

Kady Yellow is leading The What’s Up Downtown project, a placemaking initiative in Flint, MI. Yellow comes to Flint as a specialist in the field, born and raised in Binghamton, N.Y., where she became the youngest commissioner for Downtown Development and co-founded the Department of Public Art. She launched Binghamton’s riverfront revitalization and led a local art co-op focused on empowering artists to help revitalize main street by celebrating the essence of her hometown. She went on to earn a Master’s in the management of art and culture and gained valuable hands-on experience designing and implementing projects in all five boroughs of New York City, New Orleans, Alaska, and Ireland, with a focus on placemaking and importance of community-driven use of public spaces that celebrate the unique essence every place has! Yellow brings her formal education and world experience to Flint, MI to guide the project and continue to grow the state of Michigan’s exemplary leadership in placemaking.

Moderator:
Timothy S. Robinson, CEcD, EDFP, Director of Operations Lenawee Now

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(Free for Mid-America EDC current members, $25 for non-members.)