Upcoming Events 2011 Year in Review
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reflections President’s Message The New Year is upon us and though our organization encounters a change in leadership and deep evaluation of our chapter goals in July, a new year always brings the opportunity to reflect upon those goals, think about our accomplishments and face our new initiatives with a fresh perspective. A new year brings hope for growth and a more January 2012 prosperous future for all. Rebecca Brown, IIDA This year our Board of Directors identified four key categories Upcoming Events for our strategic goals that will help this chapter to grow and SWMF Great Bag Bash 2012 be prosperous. They focus on the following: Knowledge, Community, Value Interior Perspectives 2012 and Infrastructure. You will see initiatives rolled into our Premiere Events Celebrate In Design 2012 and City Center Programs focusing on these categories. Career Day 2012 Knowledge: Enhance the programming of IIDA WI to be the interior design professional development resource in the state by providing growth 2011 Year In Review opportunities for our members. Premier Events SWMF Great Bag Bash 2011 Value: Assist members with the process of transition from one level of Interior Perspectives 2011 membership to the next through awareness, scholarship for continuing Celebrate In Design 2011 On Par Golf Outing 2011 education and opportunity to earn a membership as well as to appropriately Strut 2011 recognize our Annual Partners for their support. Statewide Events Community: Grow our membership base to enable each City Center to create Flourish LEED Event 2011 a strong camaraderie and network base as well as to increase our online City Centers 2011 community through social media avenues. Madison City Center • Winter Holiday Party Infrastructure: Focus on providing convenient programming to underserved • Madison Children’s Museum markets and adapting our Board structure to accommodate this change. Also, Tour launch a new internet platform that will provide engaging and convenient • Epic Tour • House of the Future Tour access to our events and ease of registration with industry information readily Milwaukee City Center available online. • Integra Tour & Boat Cruise Fox Valley City Center Our chapter of IIDA remains strong with great thanks due to the number • Kroc Center Tour of volunteers that put their heart, skill and time in making all of our events • Wicked/ PAC Tour possible as well as our Annual Partners that provide the funds to execute our Students programs. I would like to extend a personal thank you to the volunteers and Career Day 2011 Annual Partners as well as the Board of Directors that dedicate countless hours Lighting the Community to defining and implementing our chapter goals and initiatives. It is truly a pleasure working with such a fine organization of professionals. Board of Directors BOD Retreat 2011 Best Wishes, IIDA Wisconsin Address IIDA WI PO Box 14164 Rebecca Brown, IIDA Madison, WI 53708-0164 2 Upcoming Events 2012 2011-2012 Save the Date! IIDA Wisconsin IIDA WI Sixth Annual Board of Directors SWMF Great Bag Bash! President Rebecca Brown, IIDA [email protected] February 23, 2012 President-Elect 2012-2013 Please join us for an evening of food, fun, laughter, creativity, a Melissa Destree, AIA, IIDA celebration of Susan and the advancement of design and education [email protected] in her honor. Past-President Tracy Pugh,IIDA February 23, 2012 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM [email protected] Delafield Brewhaus VP-Communications 3832 Hillside Drive / Delafield WI Ashley Phelps Wagner, IIDA Cost: $20 in advance, $25 at the door [email protected] and $5 for Students VP-Professional Development Sarah Wesley, Associate IIDA This event raises money for the Susan Wohlitz Memorial Fund, [email protected] which promotes the advancement of Design and education in the state of Wisconsin. Gather a team or work as an individual to create VP-Gov’t & Regulatory Affairs a sassy bag! The first 25 persons at the door will be guaranteed a Open [email protected] bag to decorate. IIDA- WI will provide decorating materials, BUT please feel free to bring your own. VP-Membership Deb Davis, Industry IIDA Registration begins at 5:00PM with appetizers and cash bar, 5:00- [email protected] 7:00 Bag Decorating, Susan Bingo, and Silent Auction, 7:30-9:00 Director-Industry Members Live Auction of the bags to the highest bidder. Denise Zoratti-Hill, Industry IIDA [email protected] New for 2012...Coalesse has donated the SW_1 Lounge and Director-Student Members Ottoman. Winning ticket to be included in one live auction bag. Shana LaFore, Associate IIDA [email protected] For additional information go to www.iidawi.org. Director-Associate Members Christine Pearson, Associate IIDA [email protected] VP-City Centers John Norfolk, Affiliate IIDA [email protected] Director-Madison City Center Joni Juergens, Industry IIDA [email protected] Director-Milwaukee City Center Keith Alberico, Industry IIDA [email protected] Director-Fox Valley City Center Melissa Schumacher, Industry IIDA [email protected] Treasurer Koreen Pelot, IIDA [email protected] www.iidawi.org 3 Upcoming Events 2012 Save the Date 2012 Celebrate In Design 2012 Interior Perspectives Call for Entries- Students The Wisconsin Chapter of IIDA invites student May 3, 2012 chapter members to join us in the 2012 IIDA Wisconsin Chapter Student Interior Design Competition- Wisconsin IIDA invites your participation in Chapter. Honoring outstanding design in the the 2012 Interior following categories; Residential, Hospitality/ Retail Perspectives held and Corporate. The Best of competition will we in conjunction with awarded with a $1,575 scholarship, First place in the AIA Wisconsin each category will receive a $1,000 scholarship and convention on Award of Excellence in each category will receive Thursday May 3rd a $575 scholarship. Entry deadline is Wednesday, at Monona Terrace February 6, 2012. For more details please visit in Madison, WI. www.iidawi.org. Interior Perspectives is an all day CEU event coupled with the AIA Building Products Expo. This year’s Interior Perspectives schedule of events will be as follows: Mark Your Calendar 2012 WI Interior Design 9:30 - 11:00 Seminar 1 Student Career Day 11:00 – 2:00 AIA WI Building Expo March 2, 2012 2:00 – 3:00 Seminar 2 ASID & IIDA invite you to join us at the 2012 WI 3:15 – 5:15 Seminar 3 Interior Design Student Career Day on Friday, March 2 from 9:00am-3:00pm at the American Family Insurance company in Madison. This event is More Details to Follow! geared for students traditional and non-traditional alike. Cost is $10 per student to register click HERE. We are also inviting design professionals both commercial and residential to be an educator for the day to share their experience and advice Save the Date with the students! Contact dirstudents@iidawi. 2012 Celebrate In Design com for more info on how to participate. May 3, 2012 Visit Career Day 2012 on Facebook. A day of education culminates with an evening of celebration; please join us for the Celebrate in Design Awards in the evening of Thursday May 3rd at Concourse Hotel, Madison, WI. The awards will honor outstanding design in the following categories: Office/Corporate (under 5,000sf), Office/Corporate (5,000-25,000), Office/Corporate (over 25,000sf), Hospitality, Healthcare, Retail, Sustainability, Educational/Institutional, Liturgical, Residential and Custom/Non-Building Design. Cheryl Durst, Executive Vice President and CEO of IIDA will be the emcee for Celebrate in Design. The schedule for the evening events will be as follows: 5:30 – 7:00 Cocktail Reception with Silent & Live Auction 7:00 Design Awards Presentation 4 2011 Year in Review - Premier Event 2011 IIDA WI Fifth Annual SWMF Great Bag Bash The Great Bag Bash wasRecap a success! It was the 5th annual Bag Bash with 153 people in attendance. IIDA WI had their largest turn-out for the famed annual event. Just over $7,000 was raised for the Susan Wohlitz Memorial Fund. The Susan Wohlitz Memorial Fund, part of the IIDA Foundation, is a scholarship fund used for the advancement of students pursuing interior design degrees in the State of Wisconsin. This year was the last year live auction participants had an opportunity to win a Knoll Womb Chair. This year the Womb Chair went to Erin Jende, InterfaceFlor, first time attendee of the Great Bag Bash. A good time and good fun was had by all. We decorated bags, played a little “SUSAN” bingo, and auctioned off both donations and the fabulous bag designed off our “bag bashers”. We hope you’ve been able to join us over this year! Thank you to all our committee members, volunteers, attendees, and donors. IIDA WI is very proud of this event and we hope it continues to grow over the years to come. We also hope you keep coming. Thanks again! 5 2011 Year in Review - Premier Event 2011 Interior Perspectives 2011 IIDA WI Celebrate In Design Recap Recap On Thursday, May 5th, IIDA-WI held the 14th What a better way to end a hard day's work of annual Interior Perspectives continuing education learning and rekindling our design education and event in conjunction with the AIA- WI Convention skills, but then to have a celebration! Immediately and Building Product Expo at the Monona Terrace following Interior Perspectives on Thursday, May in Madison, WI. Interior Perspectives is a premier 5th, IIDA-WI hosted the interior design awards event offering CEU opportunities to Interior Design event, Celebrate In Design at the Best Western professionals. Inn on the Park, Madison, WI. This year brought a change in schedule The room was beautifully decorated with fresh consolidating the IIDA sponsored speakers to a floral arrangements and brightly colored hand- one day event.