May 6, 2011 
‘Social Media & the Arts: Fashion, Music and Design’ Panelists
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Jerry Paffendorf – Founder of Detroit Needs RoboCop
Jerry Paffendorf is best known for leading the effort to bring a Robocop statue to Detroit’s TechTown. He is also an artist, futurist, entrepreneur, and swell guy pouring love into LOVELAND micro real estate,Living in the Map: Detroit, theImagination Station, and related efforts to connect the internets, entertainment, maps, fundraising, and storytelling to the making of good, new, and often
surprising things.
www.Detroit Needs Robocop.com
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Matt Clayson – Director of Detroit Creative Corridor Center at College for Creative Studies
Matt is the Director of the Detroit Creative Corridor Center, a partnership between Business Leaders for Michigan and the College for Creative Studies whose vision is to establish Detroit as a global center of creative business, creative innovation and creative talent. He is a drafter of the Detroit Declaration, a Leadership Team member of United Way Leadership Next and the founding Chair of United Way Leadership Next and a founding member of Michigan Children’s Leadership Council. He has served on various advisory boards and taskforces, including the 2009 Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce Mackinac Advisory Committee, the Detroit Renaissance “Road to Renaissance” creative economy work group, The Center for Michigan’s “Michigan’s Defining Moment” campaign, the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit Synergy and the Detroit Yacht Club. A licensed attorney, Matt was formerly with ePrize LLC’s legal department, where he counseled various Fortune 500 brands in the fields of promotion marketing and privacy compliance law.
www.DetroitCreativeCorridorCenter.com
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Hubert Sawyers – Founder of Frying in Vein Music Business Services
Hubert is best known as the founder of Michigan’s longest-running weekly digitally-backed social gathering – TWEETEA (www.tweeteahappens.com) – which is now hosted in multiple locations across the Midwest. He is the principal of SorSaw Enterprises, LLC (www.sorsaw.com), which is a digital communications company serving SMBs and major brands like Mazda USA. Hubert has a great interest in leveraging his marketing background to help rebuild a music economy in Michigan. He blogs about the business of music at FryinginVein.com and has worked on artist-focused programs with the Detroit Tigers, TEDxDetroit and 140 Characters Conference.
www.FryinginVein.com
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Mike ‘icon’ Han – Founder of Street Culture Mash
Mike Han and his doppelganger icon, are the founder & creative director of Street Culture Mash. Han believes that the greatest form of art is a life well lived; one that fulfills purpose by exploring passion. icon defines himself and his work through graphic/visual representations whose form suggests their meaning. icon’s conceptual body of work is a life lived through and with art on the street, in our homes, and in our lives; the streetculturemash.
www.StreetCultureMash.com
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Andrea Duchesneau – Head Makeup Artist at Heidi Bashar Salon
Andrea Duchesneau is a Print, Advertising, Film, and Event Makeup Artist based out of the Metro Detroit Area. Her work has appeared in dozens of magazine editorials, television commercials, feature films, and music videos. She is also one of the lead artists at Heidi Bashar Salon located at The Somerset Collection.
www.MichiganMakeup-Artist.com
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Catherine Healey – Founder and CEO of Fossati Studio
Exquisite Limited Edition Handbags. After a long career in the auto industry Catherine founded Fossati because it sounded fun and when you pour your soul into something only passion will carry you through the rough patches. Named after her family, Fossati is the pursuit of a childhood dream; a return to her creative roots and comfort place.
www.FossatiUS.com
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Moderator:
Emily Rogers – Artist, Musician, Entertainer and Conceptualist at Entertainment Realm
Artist, Musician, Entertainer and Conceptualist – Emily Rogers is known for bringing dynamic groups of people together as well as being an amazing performer. She founded several bands such as Lola Valley, RIB, YiN, O.D.D. She has also selected backing bands for artists like Buppy, Screamin Rachel, One Be Lo, P-A-U-L and Jon Michael Hill of Det 187. Emily Rogers’ new venture, E.R. (Entertainment Realm), fuses her talent, experience and relationships. Enabling her to express her multi-faceted creativity in a space where the possibilities are endless.
www.myspace.com/ActiveTone
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REGISTER:
SocialMediaisaParty.eventbrite.com
$10 advance tickets, $20 at the door
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