Join RiverLink and Brenda Mills
to find out how as an artist you can become a contractor for the city. We are
pleased to offer these special two hour interactive FREE
information sessions at RiverLink's Warehouse Studios, 170 Lyman Street
from 10 to 12. The next program will be held on August 26, with subsequent
dates September 25, and October 29.
Brenda Mills is an Economic
Development Specialist with the Office of Economic Development for the City of
Asheville. Brenda has been in Western North Carolina (WNC) since 1992
working in the public sector for over 23 years with an emphasis on
entrepreneurship supporting both Buncombe County and the City of Asheville's
initiative on minority business & community outreach. She served eight (8)
years on the Asheville Regional Housing Consortium as the city's representative
and recently joined the Land of Sky Regional Council's board as minority
representative for Buncombe County.
She
currently works on economic initiatives to include minority business outreach
for all city contracting, public art acquisition which includes staff liaison
to the Public Art & Cultural Commission and works with the city's current
and future incentives supporting job growth and increasing tax base for the
City. Brenda has worked extensively in WNC with other business assistance
agencies, colleges, universities and non-profits to support a vibrant region
with such efforts as Minority Enterprise Development Week, the City's Reverse
Vendor Fair, community visioning in the French Broad and East End neighborhoods
and recommendation and implementation of the city's living wage policy.
This next
phase of training artists on how to be public artists is to increase and
encourage a greater response to the city's future calls for artists on future
public projects. This free training will highlight an actual call for
artist process, general overview of public contracting basics, resources and
how to connect.
RiverLink's popular Wilma
Dykeman RiverWay plans call for economic development that focus
on the core strengths
in our watershed -
recreation in all its forms from manufacturing to retail, health & wellness
and arts and crafts. This is part of series of business topics RiverLink is
proud to host which include a partnership with SBTDC and the AB Tech
small business council, among others.
For more information contact
RiverLink at 828-252-8474, ext 16. or at information@riverlink.org
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