First Friday: Your Small Business Resource

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First Friday: Your Small Business Resource
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Topic: Creative Minds with an Entrepreneurial Spirit 
A Panel Discussion with O'More College of Design Alums

First Friday will feature a panel of alums from O'More College of Design who are now small business owners in the Middle Tennessee area. The panel will be moderated by O'More College of Design President, Dr. David Matthew Rosen.

Panelists


Kimberly Kelly
Principal, K7 Interior Design
www.k7interiordesign.com

Kimberly graduated from O’More College in 2013. During her time at O’More she received numerous accolades. In 2012 she won the Angelo Donghia Foundation Senior Scholarship. The prestigious scholarship is awarded based on a juried competition of 200+ portfolio submissions.

Following graduation Kimberly worked for an established firm in Nashville designing both residential and commercial spaces. While working with the firm she collaborated on the design for the lobby and owners lounge of the 23-story luxury condominium high rise TWELVE|TWELVE.

In May 2015 she launched her own design studio K7 Interior Design + Lifestyle located in historic Franklin, TN, where she has worked on numerous high-end residential projects. Kimberly’s design intention is to interpret the client’s vision and to create a space that evokes a poetic connection. Kelly believes the best designs are anesthetically rich, well-curated spaces that embraces color and are layered with art and objects.



Joanna Dee
Principal, Joanna Dee
http://joannadee.com/

Joanna is a two-time Dove Nominee for Album Artwork that she designed for Jason Gray and Aaron Shust. Her portfolio of work includes website design, branding, illustration, print and album artwork.


Sarah Mallory
Co-owner, Denim and Spirits
Boutique Services Project Manager, Omega Apparel
www.denimandspirits.com | www.omegaapparelinc.com | 


Moderator


Dr. David Matthew Rosen
President
O'More College of Design

David Matthew Rosen is president of O’More College of Design.  He has worked as a consultant in higher education and served as senior vice president at Woodbury University, Los Angeles, CA; president at the University of Maine at Machias; and president at Kendall College of Art & Design, where he helped create a B.F.A. in fashion, a Masters of Architecture program and the Public Museum School, the first public school whose curriculum is based entirely on Design Thinking pedagogies. He serves as the Chair of the Board Trustees of Brooks Institute in Ventura, California, and The DisArt Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. David holds a B.A. from Haverford College and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University.  He chaired the board of the Maine Humanities Council, was an NEH fellow at University of Cal Berkeley, and a John Carter Brown Library fellow at Brown University. His publications include The Changing Fictions of Masculinity and "The Volcano and the Cathedral” in Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age, as well as short stories in Fiction and Portland Magazine. You can find his song “Valerie” on Greg Kihn’s Rockkihnroll.


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