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I Create Birmingham: Burgin Matthews
“I’m really excited by the idea of whatever Birmingham will be in five years, period.”
I Create Birmingham: Brian C. Moon
“The experience of touring with a rock band, dragging my equipment onto the stage of a bar, and playing to a crowd of strangers and/or friends is a very different experience than solitarily working on a composition, attending rehearsals with the musicians, and attending a concert of string quartets to hear the performance.”
I Create Birmingham: Alex Lazzari
“Creative Birmingham means a community of creatives who really support one another and work together to build awareness and cultivate a creative city.”
I Create Birmingham: Jason Hamric
“Our per capita talent level here is off the charts. It’s an amazing idea to bring together all of our creatives from every field, and I can’t wait to see what happens next!”
I Create Birmingham: Michael Flowers
“All the studies related to this issue clearly indicate that students who are connected to the arts are better students and lead more fulfilling and engaged lives. The arts are absolutely essential to our quality of life.”
I Create Birmingham: Jacob Schwartz
Name: Jacob Schwartz Occupation: Creative Director at The Modern Brand Co Creative Industry: Design
I Create Birmingham: Wassan Al-Khudhairi
Name: Wassan Al-Khudhairi Occupation: Curator Of Modern & Contemporary Art at BMA Creative Industry: Culture & Heritage
I Create Birmingham: Jarrod Allen
Name: Jarrod Allen Occupation: Industrial Designer Business: Hide & True Creative Industry: Design
I Create Birmingham: Infectious Designer
Name: Infectious Designer Members: Brian Curtin, Mat Powell, Matt Hall Occupation: Film Makers Creative Industry: Film & Media
I Create Birmingham: Velouria
Name: Velouria Members: Deanna Medina- vocals Michael Harp- guitar/vocals John Denton- drums Stephen Wills- bass Zane Lake- guitar Occupation: Musicians Creative Industry: Performing Arts
I Create Birmingham: Lillis Taylor
Name: Lillis Taylor Occupation: Fabric Artist Creative Industry: Visual Arts & Crafts
I Create Birmingham: Roscoe Hall & Wil Drake
Names: Roscoe Hall and Wil Drake Occupation: Chef Creative Industry: Culinary
We Create Birmingham: Klein Arts and Culture
We Create Birmingham: Andrea Early
We Create Birmingham: Ashley Woods
We Create Birmingham: Will Mason
We Create Birmingham: Aaliyah Taylor and Gelenda Norman
We Create Birmingham: Jordan Higgins and Jacob Patrick of Electra Film Lab
We Create Birmingham: Cameron Sankey
We Create Birmingham: Dr. Leah Tucker
We Create Birmingham: Tyler Jones
We Create Birmingham: Edina Shrestha
We Create Birmingham: Cristal Laraé Brister
We Create Birmingham: Jessica Moody
We Create Birmingham: Ursula Smith
We Create Birmingham: Anthony Waller
We Create Birmingham: Viola Ratcliffe
We Create Birmingham: Jorge Castro
We Create Birmingham: Anna Foshee
We Create Birmingham: William J. Rushton
I Create Birmingham: The Jaybird
“What we hope to see is more collaborations, conversations, mixtures and fusions that cross our cultural and generational lines in Birmingham.”
I Create Birmingham: Kim Strickland
“Everything starts with a dream, and the rest is as simple as planning out how to make that dream become a reality through practice, hard
I Create Birmingham: Melissa Scott
“I would love to see more writers take the leap of publishing and creating publicly. I’d love to see Birmingham support local writers by buying
I Create Birmingham: Tracie Noles-Ross
“I love exploring new ideas and materials. I love that being an artist gives me permission to think outside that tired old proverbial box and
I Create Birmingham: John Paul Taylor
“We feel the arts, and in particular hip-hop and spoken word, can be used as a tool to build, inspire and engage community.”
I Create Birmingham: Armand DeKeyser
“We’re building a community with this event. That’s part of what the humanities are for, to talk about our community, our culture, our environment. “