ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Danielle N. Hawkins
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HAWKINS DANIELLE
ARCHITECT + GRAPHIC DESIGNER
EXPERIENCE
University of Idaho, Recreation and Wellbeing
August 2021 - Present || Graduate Assistant, Marketing
Develops, manages and delivers marketing initiatives including print and digital advertising, promotions and branding; creates and edits high quality graphic design and marketing materials for print and digital distribution; manages and executes a social media marketing team and plan; works with campus partners in coordinating special events; builds relationship with professional staff for ease of collaboration
Lake Oconee Living
October 2018 - Present || Art Director
Phone
810-399-3188
Email danielle.n.hawkins@gmail.com
Website daniellehawkinsart.com
CONTACT EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Education
The University of Georgia | 2010
Master of Architecture
The University of Idaho in progress | expected May 2023
Manages fifty+ advertising accounts: creating dynamic branding and advertising campaigns for print which includes creating content, directing photo shoots and advising clients of local market trends; collaborates on editorial content with a focus on visual concepts; oversees photographers on shoot; completes layout and design of magazine with a coherent theme
The Morgan County Citizen
September 2017 - June 2020 || Graphic Designer
Conceptualize and design print and web ads from start to finish working alongside clients to ensure quality and satisfaction based on branding preferences; organizes text and photos for newspaper layouts to create a visually pleasing page while adhering to Associated Press standards
The Ritz-Carlton Reynolds, Lake Oconee 2012 - 2017 || Recreation Supervisor
Managed a team of 10+ full-time Recreation Attendants and a team of 15+ lateral staff; created and implemented 30+ new group activities for corporate groups and 50+ new group activities for families and children; conducted Meeting Planner and Media Site visits; designed and maintained all in-house publications regarding daily operations and specialty hotel activities
COVER LETTER
Hello Semple Brown team,
My name is Danielle Hawkins, and I am currently finishing my last semester as a graduate student in the 3-year Master of Architecture program at the University of Idaho where I have studied and created architectural projects from abstract concepts to detailed construction and design documents.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had the urge to create. Some of my earliest memories are sketching my plastic childhood tea set on a bright blue Playskool chalkboard easel. Throughout the years, my goals, my careers, and my intentions all have meandered the path of ‘artist.’
In high school I began working as a staff writer and photographer at my local newspaper, and through the kindness of my colleagues, learned newspaper layout and graphic design, which has spurred a life-long love of learning digital design, typography, magazine and newspaper layout and publishing in general.
While my undergraduate degree was in Recreation and Leisure Studies at The University of Georgia, I used my graphic design skills to create logos and marketing materials for our program, and then when I went to work at summer camps across the US and abroad, I used my sketching skills to demonstrate concepts and relate ideas to my students. After almost ten years in the camping industry, I worked as the Recreation Supervisor at The Ritz-Carlton, Reynolds, where I programmed and created group activities and personalized products and crafts for my campers and corporate clients alike. I created a digital menu for these activities as a sales and marketing tool to present to multi-million dollar companies.
Most recently, before I moved to Idaho for school, I was the primary designer for a small publishing company in my home state of Georgia. I was in charge of all in-house advertising, weekly newspaper design and the art director of the quarterly magazine Lake Oconee Living , which I am still designing remotely.
However, over the last few years, I have felt a pull to simply do more to protect and nurture our world because I was so involved in environmental education for so long, and that’s how I landed in the field of architecture. There are so many opportunities to create with sustainable materials, use daylighting schemes to reduce energy costs, thoughtfully plan urban spaces for walkability and wellbeing of the residents, and finally educate other architects, contractors and engineers to do the same.
I look forward to expanding my knowledge of architecture while working at a firm that values a connection to the greater outdoor environment and stewardship of our resources while also creating unique and memorable designs for each client, which I think Semple Brown does so wonderfully.
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architecture bootcamp / summer 2020
Beginning my architectural journey in the midst of a pandemic resulted in a summer spent working in solitude through a program meant to engage and connect new students to each other, their new professors and architecture as a whole.
The summer bootcamp program held over Zoom was a challenging experience, but my favorite project to result from the hot and quiet summer was this foundobject space station.
Before the programming was given, we were asked to create line drawings of 20 different mood-evoking words, then fold 20 single slivers of paper based on our drawings and finally pick the three most interesting. I chose transcendent, tranquil and venture which helped inform the programming of our space station - my creation resulting in a spa-station from the found-object saving my sanity - a tower fan.
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found-object form programming mood process
final board
cross laminated timber competition / spring 2021
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final board
This master planning project had four goals - to connect the Port of Beirut to the wider community, both physically and aesthetically, enhance and add to existing port attractions and amenities to both rejuvenate Beirut’s tourism industry and create enjoyable spaces for the community and visitors alike,
utilize multiple scales of sustainable and regenerative design to help mitigate existing environmental issues within and around the site, and finally to memorialize the explosion and its effects through reusing on-site materials to create spaces that show peace can emerge from even the most turbulent times.
THE REGENERATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE PORT OF BEIRUT Major Attractions + Walkability Range Diagram Social Conditions Diagram Pedestrian Patterns + Population Diagram Air Quality Diagram Major Attractions + Walkability Range Diagram Social Conditions Projections Diagram Improved Pedestrian Patterns Diagram Improved Air Quality Diagram PRE-DESIGN DIAGRAMS POST-DESIGN DIAGRAMS DANIELLE HAWKINS + MONICA HIGBEE CHAD NESHEIM + JIM SEVERT DESIGNED BY MASTER
In-Harbor Water-Filtering Pool Concert Venue Art Museum Customs + Port Administration Courtyard-Style Retail + Dining Cruise Ship Terminal Ferry Terminal Floating Memorial Fountain Silo Reflecting Pool Aerial Tram Station + Base of Operations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Memorial Gardens Air-Filtering Pavilions Community Steps Free Zone Conventional Cargo Empty Container Zone Customs + Port Administration Container Terminal New Silos DIAGRAM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 0’ 300’ 600’ 1200’ 2400’
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COMMUNITY STEPS MEMORIAL TRIAD THE CAUSE: FLOATING MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN ENTERING THE PORT FROM THE AERIAL TRAM THE EFFECT: SILO REFLECTING POOL SITE PLAN By creating a pedestrian path in the form of the Community Steps over one of the the port becomes accessible for locals to restaurants and aerial tram hub, and gives tourists a chance to experience the lively The Floating Memorial Fountain in the center of the crater left by the blast is the first part of the Memorial Triad which represents the cause of grief. The fountain is shaped like a flower which represents the growth that comes from experiencing and overcoming pain. The reflecting pool around the silos is the second of the memorial components and it represents the pain and negative experiences that were caused by the patched, but with porous concrete, so that when the silos are filled with water, it bleeds out of the silos and runs down into the reflecting pool causing ripples in the first retaining wall. COMMUNITY STEPS MEMORIAL TRIAD THE CAUSE: FLOATING MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN THE RESOLUTION: MEMORIAL GARDENS ENTERING THE PORT FROM THE AERIAL TRAM LOOKING INTO THE CITY THE EFFECT: SILO REFLECTING POOL SITE SECTION: COMMUNITY STEPS + MEMORIAL TRIAD SITE PLAN 1” = 35’ By creating a pedestrian path in the form of the Community Steps over one of the busiest main roads, the Charles Helou, the port becomes accessible for locals to use the newly designed spaces, shops, The Floating Memorial Fountain in the center of the crater left by the blast is the first part of the memorial triad, which represents the cause of grief. The fountain is shaped to be like a flower, which represents the growth that comes from experiencing and overcoming pain. The reflecting pool around the silos is the second of the memorial components, and it represents the pain and negative experiences that were caused by the blast. The holes in the silo have been patched, but with porous concrete, so that when the silos are filled with water, it the reflecting pool causing ripples in the first retaining wall. The Memorial Gardens, the third and final part, represents closure. The layout is based loosely on Charbagh, which are gardens that are separated into four quadrants that are used in numerous religions and cultures. The vertical and circular paths that exist on the gardens are borrowed from Japanese gardens. The familiarity of the Charbagh and the movement of the Japanese gardens creates a space where its visitors can get into a state of flow, by traversing somewhat difficult terrain while circuambulating the memorial sanctuary in the center of the gardens they are able to reach a deeper level of inward thought. drawings not to scale
12 technical studio /fall 2022 DIRTBAGGER demographics MEN IN MCCALL, IDAHO 51.4% 48.6% WOMEN IN MCCALL, IDAHO WINTER RECREATION SEASON J F M A M J J A S O N D $20/HR AVERAGE HOURLY RATE FOR A SKI INSTRUCTOR IN IDAHO $1000 $800 $600 $400 $200 McCall Idaho United States $0 $659 AVERAGE RENT FOR STUDIO APARTMENT IN MCCALL $19,542 AVERAGE INCOME OF MCCALL RESIDENT 7.1% HIGHER COST OF LIVING IN MCCALL (VS US AVERAGE) parti LIVING GATHERING COMMERCIAL 2 COMMERCIAL 1 program diagram areas near McCall RECREATION Cascade Riggins McCall WINTER RECREATION AREAS SUMMER RECREATION AREAS Zim’s Hot Springs HOT SPRINGS Burgdorf Hot Springs HOT SPRINGS Brundage Mountain + Resort SNOW SPORTS Little Ski Hill SNOW SPORTS Tamarack Resort SNOW SPORTS Lower Salmon River PADDLING Payette Lake CAMPING, FISHING, PADDLING, MOTORIZED BOATING, MOUNTAIN BIKING Little Payette Lake PADDLING, SWIMMING Waterfront Camping PADDLING, SWIMMING Cascade Reservoir CAMPING, FISHING, PADDLING, MOTORIZED BOATING 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 SUMMER RECREATION SEASON J F M A M J J A S O N D 58.5% SINGLE POPULATION 456 NON-FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS 47.1% 28.7% 13.7% 10.6% MARRIED COUPLE, NO CHILDREN MARRIED COUPLE, WITH CHILDREN SINGLE HOUSEHOLD, NO CHILDREN SINGLE HOUSEHOLD, WITH CHILDREN RESTAURANT TYPES 644 FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS vs Barrier for recruitment of outdoor industry workforce 66.36% 28.97% 4.67% LIKELY A BARRIER NOT LIKELY A BARRIER UNSURE **housing options where job is located top 4 hiring challenges LACK OF QUALIFIED APPLICANTS **HOUSING OPTIONS COMPETITION FROM OTHER AREAS COST OF LIVING AT JOB LOCATION 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 66% 31% 66% 62% 60% 29% 31% 35% 3% 5% 7% 6% CASUAL: 32.5% BARS AND BREWERIES: 22.5% FINE DINING: 12.5% SPECIALTY: 11.2% BREAKFAST: 10% INTERNATIONAL: 7.5% DESSERTS: 3.8% GATHERING SPACE PRIVATE (98%) PUBLIC (2%)* The one public gathering space, McCall Community Center, is currently in use for senior and only open to the public during emergency weather situations. demographics
process space planning
drawings not to scale
site plan 1/8” = 1’ 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 10 11 16 15 12 13 14 17 18 19 In-Between Bites restaurant In-Between Bites courtyard unit 101 tenant storage stairwell mechanical In-Between Bites kitchen restroom cistern 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1N building community space public restrooms McCall Makers Space 1S courtyard fire pits storage community kitchen maintenance community greenhouse dog park 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1S building 2 3 5 6 4 7 17 15 21 19 18 14 16 1 13 12 20 22 second floor plan 1/8” = 1’ 2N living area unit 201 unit 202 unit 203 unit 204 unit 205 toilet room bathroom stairwell unit 206 unit 207 laundry 2N kitchen 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 2N building 2S living area 2S kitchen sunroom green roof bathroom unit 209 2S rooftop deck unit 210 bathroom 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2S building 2 3 5 6 4 7 8 9 15 21 19 18 14 16 13 11 10 12 20 22 second floor plan 1/8” = 1’ third floor plan 1/8” = 1’ 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 2N living area unit 201 unit 202 unit 203 unit 204 unit 205 toilet room bathroom stairwell unit 206 unit 207 laundry 2N kitchen 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 2N building 2S living area 2S kitchen sunroom green roof bathroom unit 209 2S rooftop deck unit 210 bathroom 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2S building 3N living area unit 301 unit 302 unit 303 unit 304 3N rooftop deck bathroom stairwell unit 305 unit 306 unit 307 unit 308 unit 309 game area 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 3N building
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floor plan The Nook Detail 1/4” = 1’ floor plan level 1 levels 2 + 3 C B A B C A section the nook elevation west
/fall 2022
The Micro McCall project sought to solve the lack of connection on multiple levels between shortterm seasonal staff and residents of the mixeduse building, long-term community members and tourists of the thrill-seeker vacation area.
The first level of the building is designed to allow for foot traffic through the site and between the two distinct commercial areas. Each programming space is flexible for different types of businesses as are the small, or micro, apartments on the upper levels.
Corridor 3/8” = 1’ flat roof parapet 16” TJI Rimboard and I-Joist 2x6 double top plate 1“ anodized aluminum cladding / vertical 5’ aperture 4” rigid insulation 3 1/8” x 16 1/2” glulam cistern retractable glass doors sun room curtain wall sun room skylight 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 4 3 2 5 6 7 9 9 10 8 11 16
technical studio /fall 2022
TWO BIRDS ONE DESIGN
18 masters project /spring 2023
ABSTRACT
The project looks to solve two issues with one design move.
RESEARCH COVER
prioritizing convenience and urban living.
ISSUE #1
Over the next several years, Baby Boomers, the second largest generation in the United States, will be aging into some form of a senior living community and the shear number of retirees will cause a shortage on accommodations for this generation. Additionally, options and expectations of these communities have been moving away from the sterile nursing home model of yesteryear and toward technological advances and
ISSUE #2
Throughout the United States there are a plethora of empty big box stores sitting unused in prime locations just awaiting adaptive reuse for urban living.
With a thorough understanding of both issues, a comparative design experiment challenging existing infrastructure and social mindset of how we treat our elders will be conducted. The goal of this project is to adequately test the hypothesis of solving Issue #1 with Issue #2.
complete masters project booklet on request
RECREATION
EDUCATION
CULTURE
IMAGE
PERSONAL HEALTH
ENVIRONMENT
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masters project
2023
Diana Wheeler, Peachtree Corners’ Community Development Director, created a R.E.C.I.P.E. for developing and maintaining desirable senior living communities. “Customer-driven communities concentrate on Recreation, Education, Culture, Image, Personal Health and Environment as critical elements in successful senior-sensitve areas” (Abbott, Carman, Carman, Scarfo, 169).
By assigning colors to the R.E.C.I.P.E. acronym and postulating how those programming elements could work together, I was able to map the four different side views of configuration 1 of the Venn diagram model and collage them together in the image on this spread.
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masters project /spring 2023
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RECREATION EDUCATION CULTURE IMAGE
ERSONAL HEALTH ENVIRONMENT
To further use the Venn diagram model and collage to drive programming of the R.E.C.I.P.E. concept, I created based a gradient based on the dominant color of the area and digitally adapted it to see how the assigned colors would mix together. Also, the dominant lines of the model were pulled and digitized for program and path of travel exploration.
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RECREATION EDUCATION CULTURE IMAGE PERSONAL HEALTH ENVIRONMENT
Shifting the R.E.C.I.P.E. gradient to the shape of the existing empty K-Mart store at 2000 S. Barnett Shoals Road in Athens, Georgia, and overlaying the prominent model lines influenced the two diagrams shown here which will be revised in the design phase.
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graphic design /spring 2022 + 2023
SETTING THE
STORY BY PATRICK YOST
The inside of The Dining Room glows.
There are 46 light fixtures that hover, almost as if in mid air, over white linen tables with silverware meticulously placed, surrounded by multiple wine glasses for, of course, multiple wines.
Chef Ryan Caldwell, a 36-year-old man who has earned his place as executive chef, takes a sip of mineral water and reflects. It has taken him one and half years to get to this place with MAD
Hospitality and their stable of Madison-based restaurants. His time was spent creating The Sinclair, a hip breakfast, small plate, wine and drinks restaurant housed in an old car dealer building; Mad Taco, an authentic Mexican restaurant located across the square from the Sinclair; and Hart and Crown, a British Pub that, since its opening, stays both comforting and full. Caldwell’s last chef stint was as executive chef at the Malibu Beach
For the last several years, I have worked remotely designing the magazine Lake Oconee Living, a lifestyle magazine based in middle Georgia where golf and golfbased headlines are prominent - especially coming up on Masters season.
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where he defined the west coast cuisine for four years. But now there is The Dining Room. The high-end eatery is the brainchild of MAD Hospitality owner and real estate developer, Preston Snyder, who spent years working as a server during the Chef Gunter Seeger transformation of The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta while attending college and starting his real The Dining Room, on Hancock Street, is the fourth restaurant Caldwell and Snyder have opened in downtown Madison in the last year and a half and brings a lineage, immediate heritage and gravitas found no where else. A bakery and breakfast restaurant are also in the works. For chef, Caldwell says, The Dining Room offers a chance to shine. Open Thursday through Saturday and accepting 36 reservations per night, The Dining Room offers a sophisticated menu, typically four courses, of locally sourced ingredients with thoughtful wine pairings. In the year and a half Caldwell has spent in Madison, he used that time to establish a network of providers for freshness. “It’s a painstaking process,” he says. “It’s trial and error. You give everybody a shot but it doesn’t always work.” Recently The Dining Room featured a suckling pig sourced from Milledgeville’s Comfort Farms. Comfort Farms, according to its website, is a “sustainable small farm that help veterans transition from their time at war.” At Comfort Farms, Caldwell found Mulefoot pig. The well-marbled pig was butchered at the expansive kitchen that services The Dining Room, Hart and Crown and Mad Taco and was covered in aromatics, slow roasted and then wrapped in cabbage from Bread and Butter Farms in Sparta. Mona Lisa smiled. That’s the idea, Caldwell says. “This is great product. The guy that raises them treats them with respect.” The menu at The Dining Room changes, sometimes daily, to accommodate what was procured. Caldwell takes the best ingredients he can find and then creates. “It elevates everything,” he says. “I order what they have and then have to create. That’s the challenge and that’s the pay-off.” The intimate space is adorned with original art. The four-top bar sits before gleaming array of whiskeys. The service matches the linen table top. No detail is left to chance. A recent offering was first course of roasted beet root salad, house made ricotta, Rolling Branch Farms Satsuma orange with fresh fines herbs served with a 2010 Petites Sardines, Muscadet, France wine. Second course; Sunchoke veloute, Salmon roe, Saffron oil served with the “Pale Rose,” Provence, France. Third course; North Carolina Speckled Trout, Pine Nut and Curly Kale gremolata, and Crystal organics baby winter carrots, served with Hugel Reisling Classic, 2020, Alsace, France and final course of vanilla panna cotta, kumquat compote, Executive Chef Ryan Caldwell, right, creates each course at The Dining Room from locally sourced ingredients and tailors his menu based on what’s available, what’s fresh, and what’s going to give patrons an unforgettable dining experience. Photography by Josiah Connelly candied almond, lace cookie served with Collosi Lipaarta Passito, Sicily, Italy. The Dining Room also offers seating. For instance, on January 14, a diner could replace the third course trout with a roasted Callidora Farms ribeye, Bread and Butter Farms collard greens, turnip fondant with hollandaise served with a 216 Chateau Trois Moulins, Haut Medoc, Bourdeaux, France. Caldwell says the beauty of The Dining Room is the challenge of utilizing locally sourced ingredients to make the experience shimmer. “From today to yesterday it On March 11, Michael McNeill will celebrate an notable anniversary. McNeill, more-than affable 60-year-old distinguished man, was named the second youngest Master Sommelier in the nation in 1993 while he was working with Madison’s Preston Snyder at The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta. For an idea on the significance of the moment, know there are, currently, only 269 Master Sommelier’s in the world; 172 in the United States. For Snyder, McNeill, who is currently the director of fine wine for the Georgia Crown spirits distribution company, has added his expertise and knowledge to create unique, fine dining space in downtown building that once held a wagon works company and, later, a funeral home. Snyder consulted with McNeill early to make The Dining Room sophisticated and warm experience. “Preston and wanted to create an experience that is classic,” says McNeill. “We wanted to show the classic pairings with wines that have been around for centuries.” During an expansive 10-course New Year’s Eve Dinner at The Dining Room on Hancock Street (located directly behind the Hart and Crown on East Washington Street) caviar osetra, buttermilk potato pancake, dill dish was paired with the Rolland Champion Grand Cru Brut Champagne. A Miane Lobster Bisque third course came with Hugel Reisling. McNeill says the work through Georgia Crown to The Dining Room has been gratifying and fun. “The customer’s reaction, that’s what we are working for. These kind of dining experiences are rare these days.” McNeill says he not only studies the menu to determine which wine will make the dish sing, but he also becomes familiar with chef’s tendencies. “The sommelier is an extension of the chef’s hand,” he says. “I look at the heart of the dish, the method of preparation and third, what’s the strongest flavor of the dish.” The Dining Room Chef Ryan Caldwell has been an interesting partner, McNeill says. “He is doing some really great dishes.” For Snyder, who was a waiter at The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta, when McNeill was on the rise, working with the Master Sommelier, and friend, has been fulfilling on several levels. McNeill’s knowledge, paired with Snyder’s hospitality heritage (“My instincts are still a waiters,” he says) created a nexus of knowledge and heart. “Wine is food,” says McNeill. “Wine is art, wine is cultural, wine is terroir. It’s what people care about.” “We are excited he was creating the experience,” Snyder says. “This doesn’t exist anymore.” Mastering THE MENU STORY AND PHOTO BY PATRICK YOST changes. You have to pivot. That’s the exercise, you have to make the product shine.” Reservations for The Dining Room are requested. Go to the Mad Hospitality website at www.mad-hospitality.com/the-dining-room and follow the prompts. Cost is $95 each for the meal and an additional $35 if the wine pairing is selected. The restaurant is open from Thursday to Saturday with the last seating at 8:30 p.m. During Masters Week, the restaurant will be open each day. Master Sommelier Michael McNeill, left, and The Dining Room owner Preston Snyder, right. The Dining Room, located on Hancock Street in downtown Madison, is housed in the former Simmons Funeral Home. The Dining Room shares this historic corner building with two other MAD Hospitality restaurants; Hart and Crown Tavern and Mad Taco. Photo by Josiah Connelly Dramatic lighting hovers over white linens throughout the wellappointed dining area. The intimate space is adorned with original art and layered with various textures. Photos courtesy of MAD Hospitality
Photo courtesy of MAD Hospitality
It’s Wednesday afternoon. The women golfers enter the Veranda Grill at Jennings Mill Country Club after 10 a.m. tee time and 18 holes of golf. The room has a dozen tables with metal chairs and televisions on the walls. Cynthia Dickerson plays golf with women’s group in Athens. She’s thin and her blond blunt bob hairstyle makes her look younger than her retired years. Lunch with the women after the game is ritual. They choose salads and sweet tea or water. “We talk about recipes, clothing, and sometimes even golf,” says Dickerson. Though her group averages from six to eight women, other women’s groups are larger. Many golf clubs offer Ladies Day. Golf-playing women are emerging as a major STORY BY LEARA RHODES on the right course Women ballstrikers continue to enhance the sport through camaraderie and competition growth demographic on the greens in the United States. Six million women were on-course golfers in 2020, according to the National Golf Foundation. This growth of eight percent year results in nearly quarter of all golfers are women, according to Golf Digest. The reason? Golf has offered women outdoor exercise with socialization even during a pandemic, fashion that works for a busy lifestyle, and way to advance in business career. With more women stepping onto the golf greens for the first time, there is a camaraderie emerging to make the golf game much more accepting of women. Fore: A warning There are many disagreements as to golf history. woman player. Some say it was Mary, Queen of Scots, who ruled Scotland from 1542 to 1567. She played on the newly built St Andrews Links golf course and created the term “caddie,” derived from the word “cadets” a term she used to refer to her Scotland takes lot of credit for golf history. Women began playing golf at Bruntsfield Links in 1738 and the first reference to links golf is in 1811 at Musselburgh, according to Scottish Golf History. In the United States, one of the earliest golf clubs was the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southhampton, NY, in 1891. To accommodate the growing popularity of golf to women, the club built nine-hole course just for them. Women’s golf societies were not formed until the last quarter of the 19th century, according to Golf History, when there was an explosion of interest in women’s golf and golf clubs. Even with the popularity, women were often relegated to putting greens, rules that permitted only one club, and restricted clothing—long skirts and petticoats. In a Sports Illustrated article, when Gloria Minoprio took part in the British Ladies Championship in 1933, she wore scandalous trousers. Her outfit is in the British Golf Museum in St Andrews, Scotland. There were certainly differences wearing trousers; men dominated the sport, but women were determined to play. The differences, as documented by J.D. Chi in Golf Week, lists swing speed, stance, and angle on the ball at contact.en may overuse muscles in their backs and hips to get stronger swings. To reduce injuries experts suggest stretching. These stretches will increase and maintain the flexibility golfer needs in the shoulders, ankles, back and hips, according to Kevin Bailey, a fitness trainer in Athens who works with women golfers in getting them ready for the game. “If you don’t have flexibility and good balance, your shots on the course will not be straight. Balance starts from the ground up,” Bailey says. Static balance is the ability to hold the body in a specific position while dynamic balance is the ability to maintain balance while moving the body, he explains. A golfer needs both. Bailey emphasizes the need to keep the core muscles of the body strong. He offers this advice: “Don’t overuse the back muscles. This can cause muscle imbalance and could cause injuries. The ear and shoulders need to be aligned, the muscles need to be flexible, and the chest needs to be open.” Teed Up: Ready to Play The game of golf combines exercise with socialization. Women groups form at many golf courses so that women can enjoy the people they are playing with and enjoy being outside in nature. It’s a game you can enter at any age, with or without previous experience or skill. “I was never athletic,” Dickerson says. “I was always the last one chosen in school to be on a team.” Her path The Georgia Women’s Golf Association was founded in 1929. For nine decades, it has promoted the game of golf for women throughout the state and raised funds for girls’ golf programs and scholarships. Courtesy of Georgia Women’s Golf Association Terri Moody Hancock, two-time All-American and the first UGA women’s golfer to compete on the LPGA Tour, will be inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame later this year. Courtesy of University of Georgia Athletics The St Andrews Ladies Golf Club via the Scottish Golf History, scottishgolfhistory.org. Hancock won the 1976 Georgia Women’s Amateur Championship and was named the 1981 National Golfer of the Year. Courtesy of University of Georgia Athletics could be boosted by $35 billion, according to Scott Hennessey in Golf Digest, if the 29 percent number of non-golfing women who said they were interested in playing golf were converted into players (translated into 36.7 million women worldwide). He cites a report, titled “The Global Economic Value of Increased Female Participation in Golf,” commissioned by Syngenta, a Swiss biotechnology company. Other research by the women’s golf apparel company, Kinona (Hawaiian meaning “shape”), co-founded by Dianne Celuch and Tami Fujii, reports that the average age of women golfers is 40.7 years, younger than the male average, and third of all golfers under 18 are girls. Celuch and Fujii have been friends for years, working together in the global apparel industry. They took golf vacations together, and talked about how much they hated the golf fashions and how they should start golf apparel company. The idea percolated for 10 years. Then in October 2016, they agreed that if they were going to do this, they needed to do it now. They launched Kinona in February 2017. “We are the world’s oldest start-up people,” says Fujii. They both have multigenerational families. “We are friends and business partners and needed clear roles to playing golf is repeated by other women: her husband was a golfer and on vacation, he would play and she would go to the beach. Then she started going with him a little, she began to practice and actually started hitting the ball. “I get exercise, interact with people, learn new things every time go out, like the sand trap. I could not get out but another woman in her 70s described how she got out of the sand trap: put the weight on your feet and legs differently. tried that and it worked!” Dickerson played initially with men, then couples, and now she plays with various groups and even solo. “I’ll play with anyone; there are no strangers on the golf course,” she says. She doesn’t play competitively. “Golf is a social thing, play competitively with the course, not with others.” Dickerson’s golf group of women is also interested in fashion. “We all try to look alike. Skorts are in and we all wear pants,” she says. They shop at the PGA store and online. She remembers attending the Masters in Augusta and describes how everyone is packed into the shop wanting to buy something. Rules: What to wear Some of the rules of golf fashion have included no T-shirts but all other shirts need to be tucked in; no jeans, sweats and yoga pants; no jean jackets or hoodies. Golf shoes are preferred. There are many rules but many are being broken as the women’s athletic market explodes. Golf’s global economy Golf Digest has listed Kinona as one of the top ten new and exciting brands. Courtesy of Kinona The women’s golf apparel company, Kinona, was launched in 2017. Today, its functional fashion line is in shops in the U.S. including Reynolds Lake Oconee and the Atlanta Athletic Club. of responsibilities so we could remain both.” They chose a designer, Jarlath Mellett, who didn’t know anything about golf. “We liked that because he didn’t have a mindset thinking. He thinks fashion (has background in art, pop culture, and nature) and we think functionality,” says Celuch. The fabric is out of Italy, and according to the co-founders, every inch is paid attention to. Though the brand is not yet in the PGA superstore, it is in more than 350 shops in the U.S. including Reynolds Lake Oconee and the Atlanta Athletic Club; and, Golf Digest has listed them as one of the top ten new and exciting brands. Fujii says that women feel intimidated, not welcomed on the golf course, and women need to feel that golf is accessible to anyone. The co-founders have brought versatility with their brand. “We encourage women to stick it out, get friends together, and stop shaming other women about clothing and capabilities,” says Fujii. The research suggests to Celuch and Fujii that the women want to look alike yet different. The brand is designed for players 40 and up. “Women who want more tummy control. Women who are older but want to look great as a 50-yearold,” says Fujii. Their company brand brings all of these ideas together. “We have color in our products, big splatter prints that when teams are wearing our prints, they look special,” says Celuch. Times, as seen in golf apparel, are changing. On Par: Sharing The changing times includes encouraging girls to play golf. Girls Golf began in 1989 to teach girls golf and perseverance. Girls Golf was started by Sandy LaBauve in Arizona, who learned golf from her mother and wanted to teach golf to her daughters. With support from the Ladies Professional Golf Association and the United States Golf Association, there are 500 Girl Golf sites for ages 6-17. Kinona co-founders donate to Girls Golf. “Girls are not supported like boys,” says Celuch, “There are tons of ways for boys to be encouraged. Girls Golf has a strong organization with leadership programs and life skills.” Girls Golf uses the “5 E’s” as guiding points: empower, enrich, engage, exercise, and energize. The Cherokee Run Golf Course is where Girls Golf Conyers is held. Deborah Davis is the director of golf with partner Carolina Mincey. They offered the only girls golf camp in Georgia this past summer, according to Mincey. The first year they offered the camp they had 28 girls, this year they had 28 plus 28 on the waiting list. “When the girls first come to golf, they are confused,” explains Davis, former tennis player from Antiqua. “They say, ‘Isn’t this for older people?’ Then they make good shot Girls Golf began in 1989 to teach girls golf and valuable life skill like confidence and perseverance. There are now 500 Girl Golf sites for ages 6-17 nationwide. Girls Golf Conyers operates from Cherokee Run Golf Club in Rockdale County. Last year it held its first summer camp. This year, they have waiting list. Courtesy of Girls Golf Conyers and get excited. So excited that they jump out of the car without their clubs,” says Davis. So excited that one mother drove from New Orleans for the three-day camp with her daughter. Golf has so many opportunities and a built-in respect for others, explains Davis. The girls learn the physics of why a ball has dimples, a ball’s flight, spin of the ball, why the balls are not round. The growth of girls and golf has not gone unnoticed. The Georgia Women’s Golf Association is working on raising funds for girl’s golf teams. The grants fund high school girls’ golf teams. Last year GWGA had nine applications, this year they had 33 and funded 26 programs. Sissi Gann is chair of GWGA, whose group raised $18,000 for the scholarships. A recipient of the Mary B. Dinos Women’s Golf Scholarship for three years, Jenny Bae from Lawrenceville, is the State Amateur 2021 Champion. She plays on the UGA Women’s Golf team and is majoring in Sport Management. Her golf statistics and wins confirm why this 20-year-old finished the fall of 2021 ranked No. 10 and No. 12 nationally, according to Golfstat and Golfweek, respectively. She started playing golf with her dad. She has three goals: obtain professional ID through Q School, play in the women’s amateur game before the Masters tournament in Augusta, and play in the U.S. Women’s Open. Q School is qualifying program to obtain a professional ID and will allow Bae to play in golf tours: US based PGA, LPGA, and European. She hopes to attain her professional ID in the fall of 2022. To play in the women’s amateur tournament before the Masters Tournament has Bae smiling. “The Masters course is one of the most prestigious courses and makes me feel in awe.” The Masters is one of the four elite men’s professional majors but has never hosted a female event. The Augusta National golf club has tossed around the idea of hosting woman’s Masters tournament, but since they are a private club and have spent 80 years being male only, they choose what they want to do and when. In 2012 they invited the first two women into the club: former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore, one of America’s top bankers. The aim was to choose two women who have had professional career equal to their male members. Ace: A hole in one Young players like Jenny Bae are following many elite players who have emerged in women’s golf. Women like the late Gloria Hughes, of Greensboro, an accomplished golfer who won 11 championships from California to Lake Oconee. And, Vicki Goetze-Ackerman one of Georgia’s most decorated female golfers at the national level, winning two U.S. Women’s Amateur titles and representing the U.S. four times in international team events. Her family lived in Hull, outside of Athens. These women along with many others have played golf and became leaders in golf organizations to encourage more women to play. The women give back to the sport in many ways. Such as Brenda Greer Evans who has promoted women’s golf and has participated in GWGA and GSGA tournaments for years. Evans is the co-owner of Evans Farms GP and has been in the Pecan Industry for 24 years. The husband and wife team, along with two of their sons, have grown their business from 1,900 acres to more than 9,000 acres while farming in nine counties. She has served on the boards of Georgia Sheriff’s Youth Homes, Southeastern Pecan Association, Georgia Pecan Growers Association (Vice President), and Farm Service Agency Committee Board. She recently became the first woman appointed to the Georgia Agricultural Pecan Commodity Commissions by the Georgia Department of Agriculture Commissioner, Gary Black. In her in-between time, she plays golf, often on her home course in Houston Lake Country Club since 1974 in Perry. “Golf opens you up to meeting amazing people,” says Evans. “I went up to Pinehurst, N.C., and took a week of golf lessons and there were doctors, lawyers, all professions of folks.” She started playing when she was 17. “I took lessons a whole year and never played the course. started playing with ladies who were in their 60s and 70s and they would beat the stew out of me.” Evans explained how she learned to chip and putt. And as one gets older, golfer may lose distance but can chip and putt. “It’s the only game you can play in your 80s and 90s,” says Evans. “I have met and have had girl friends for decades. The camaraderie is amazing. On invitational tournaments, we travel together. We go out to eat, return to the condo, and play poker.” Her love of the game has inspired her to chair golf tournament to support Westfield Schools for 25 years. “The coach told everyone, ‘When you ask Brenda to do tournament, just back off and let her do it,’” says Evans during a phone interview after a full business day during their busy season and an hour before she needed to pick up her grandchilUGA golfer Jenny Bae of Lawrenceville won the GWGA amateur golf tournament in 2021. Last fall, she was ranked No. 10 and No. 12 nationally, according to Golfstat and Golfweek, respectively. She says her goal is to play in both the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and the U.S. Women’s Open. Courtesy of University of Georgia Athletics, Tim Cowie dren from after school programs. She has introduced her children and now her grandchildren to the game and you need committee, sponsors, date and format, and brochure. Football always brings the money out. In golf, you have to work to get the sponsors. The golfers are going to come out, but they are not the ones you get the most money from.” Camaraderie may be good in women’s golf, but there is another reason to play: women athletes are more successful in business. Ninety-four percent of women executives have background in sport with half of them at the university level, according to a study by EY and espnW. The study found that 80 percent of women Fortune 500 executives had played competitive sports, 74 percent of all executives believed playing sports helps woman progress faster, and 61 percent of the women executives who responded believed playing sports contributed positively to their career success and Those statistics inspired Davis to expand her business from Girls Golf to include courses on Executive Golf for Women. “It’s the only sport with no referee or umpire,” says Davis. “Players must rely on their personal integrity.” In the spirit of the game, golf is played without supervision. The game relies on the integrity of the individual to show consideration for other players and to abide by the rules. Davis suggests “If an executive invites you to play a round of golf, go. That’s four to five hours of one-on-one. Even if you don’t play tell them you’ll ride along with them.” According to Kristi Dosh in Forbes Magazine, “It’s no secret that many a business deal has been closed on a golf course. But did you know CEOs who regularly play golf are paid 17 percent more on average than those who do not?” Other organizations encourage women to play golf. The Women in Golf Foundation, Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, is a 501-C3 organization that promotes women in golf. The organization focuses on creating opportunities for females by implementing programs that develop leadership and life skills as they learn to play the game of golf competitively for business and recreational purposes. Women who have played golf have moved into leadership positions within major golf organizations. Belinda Marsh is chair of the Georgia State Golf Hall of Fame. As golfer since she was six or seven years old, she played in college, and has played as an amateur since. She was chair of the Georgia State Golf Association and after a two-year term became chair of the Hall of Fame, which inducts players, PGA, and volunteers. Currently housed in the Murray Golf House on the Bobby Jones Golf course in Atlanta, the Hall of Fame was located in Augusta in 1951. Its inaugural members were Betty Jameson, Louise Suggs, Patty Berg, and Babe Zaharias. A 2022 inductee into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame is Terri Moody Hancock of Athens, a two-time All-American golfer at the University of Georgia and the first UGA women’s golfer to compete on the LPGA Tour. Hancock was the 1981 Broderick Award winner for women’s golf as the nation’s top collegiate golfer. She was also the 1981 National Golfer of the Year. In 1980, she was a member of the Curtis Cup Team, where she helped the United States to a 13-5 victory over Great Britain and Ireland. She also won the 1976 Georgia Women’s Amateur Championship. These women have added significantly to the sport. “There is strength of women,” says Evans. “Golf had been the bastion of men but it is better today. Women’s golf is an untapped resource. And you don’t have to play, you can be a volunteer and be involved.” Encouragement: Tee time and lunch next week At lunch one week, Dickerson learns that member of their group, who is really good, had gone to a tournament where she played badly. The woman did not come out for week afterwards. Dickerson kept writing her little notes encouraging her to play. “That’s what women do,” says Dickerson. “I have never met a woman on the course who didn’t encourage and share.”
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The most dramatic transition came upon entry. Like most homes built in the early 1900s, was comprised of smaller rooms, closed off and separated by doors and hallway, and Kimsey knew she wanted some breathing room. “I like being able to walk in the front and see all the way to the back, instead of being met with all that closed in space,” says Kimsey. She removed an entire wall next to the stairway to immediately open the dining room, kitchen and keeping room. She shifted powder room under the stair to make room for an expanded kitchen, now filled to the ceiling with bright, white cabinetry and sleek, modern fixtures and finishes. She incorporated new stand-alone island and L-shaped bar with quartz countertops to provide extra seating and prep space to the kitchen layout. The breakfast room at the back of the kitchen was converted into cozy screened porch. A casual keeping room now connects the kitchen and dining room, creating seamless flow for entertaining. Knowing people tend to gather in the kitchen, Kimsey crafted the perfect space to keep guests naturally gravitated together while giving them space to be comfortable. In the master bedroom, Kimsey added walk-in closet and converted the original, A custom oversized headboard in the master bedroom accentuates the home’s 12-foot ceilings. A stand-alone tub was added to the master bathroom and green toile wallpaper was used to create calming space. Modern greens, like these found in the bedroom’s drapes, are carried throughout the home.
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From the outside, the unassuming Folk Victorian built in 1900 fits in amongst its fellow historic homes along a tree-lined street just off of the courthouse square in downtown Madison. But on the inside, a fusion of contemporary furniture and antiques, family heirlooms and commissioned art, stained glass and bright modern wallpapers sets the home apart. It’s an eclectic mix that just works. And it’s exactly how the homeowner planned it. Frannie Kimsey is an interior designer who has urged her clients over the past 22 years to surround themselves with things they love, OLD
Interior designer, Frannie Kimsey introduces modern flourishes into her historic Madison home Renovations to this 1900 Folk Victorian revealed bright, open spaces while maintaining the historical integrity of the home. not things they feel should match a particular style. So when it came to her own home, she created a space that was defined by love, not by any rules of design. “This home is filled with the things love,” says Kimsey. “That’s what tell clients; ‘If you love it, it will work in your house. Stop trying to make everything match because then it’s not going to be personal to you.’” She explains that she never wants someone to walk into house and say, “Frannie Kimsey did this house.” She wants people to walk in and say, “Oh, this house looks just like you.” “And this house does look just like me,” says Kimsey. “It’s weird and flashy and eclectic, and most of all, it’s comfortable.” When Kimsey purchased the home last July, she knew she wanted to make some architectural changes to open up the space while at the same time, maintaining the historical integrity of the home. Bold wallpaper and tile selections were used to create interest in special spaces throughout the home. During renovations. wood was preserved and repurposed for the wet bar. Other original architectural pieces and reclaimed wood were mixed in with newer design elements. greens of a peacock design in the powder room, and an unexpected print of blood oranges on black background in the mud room by the She immediately loved the blood oranges, she says, and built the space around the unusual print. “A lot of times, I’ll find a fabric or wallpaper that blows me away and I’ll go from that,” says Kimsey. She appointed the home with furnishings she loves as well, whether they be contemporary, modern, or deco – bought new or passed down from generations. She pulled in bright, green velvet, mid-century modern chairs to her dining table to sit alongside formal, red upholstered, antique “thrones,” as she likes to call them. Above the table, crafted by local wood artist Kipley Meyer, hangs a dramatic new chandelier made from rough quartz, dripping from an earthy, golden base. In the master bedroom, mirrored deco-style tables balance a modern, custom-built, oversized headboard on Among the mix of furnishings throughout the home, Kimsey has hung art that ranges from largescale commissioned pieces to her own paintings, many of which were inspired by her four children. Interspersed among them are family portraits from generations ago, framed letters and Christmas cards, 1. Don’t be attached to one look. Let things inspire you and then work from that. If you see something and it speaks to you, get it. If you love it, it will work in your house. 2. Start with fabrics. See what appeals to you and start moving from there. Once you have rugs and fabrics, you can select paint colors. It’s much easier to match paint colors than the other way around. 3. Balance height and numbers. Things need to be contrasting in height. Use something tall with shorter things to balance it out. Group things in threes. That odd number will give you variation that’s aesthetically pleasing. 4. Hang art above or below trim lines. Pictures need to be higher or lower than door and window trim. Don’t hang them at the same height because it creates a line straight across the room that gets boring to the eye. 5. Be select with statements. If you’re going to do something special, like a red ceiling in a dining room, do it in one place. Don’t do something special in every room or it will take away from those statement spaces. 6. Mix it up. Everything doesn’t have to match. Everything should not match.
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quick tips for “No Rules” Kimsey appointed her walls with an eclectic mix of art that includes large-scale painting by local artist, Mary Leslie, framed prints she uncovered from her grandmother’s dusty barn, and a portrait of her great-great-grandmother. Kimsey even has a few of her own paintings on the walls. Her current favorite, she says, is the painting hung next to her front door, created especially for her new home by her friend, Judy Gilbert, of Madison. Gilbert incorporated the bright reds and greens found throughout the home and reflected in the stained glass windows at the front and back doors. either side of the fireplace – one of three original coal-burning fireplaces in She completely modernized the master bathroom, adding stand-alone tub and water closet next to glass shower. During the renovations, the wood that was being removed was meticulously preserved and used to create stunning wet bar and butler’s pantry, positioned in the hallway to provide easy access from the kitchTwo of the home’s original pocket doors were also repurposed. One is now barn door leading into the laundry room and the other is the base of the L-shaped bar that greets guests as they enter the home. Kimsey also worked to preserve the wood trim around the windows and doors of the home, along with its gorgeous hardwood floors. “I love the trims in this house and wanted to keep them even though needed to lighten everything up,” says Kimsey. “I didn’t want to take away the wood, which was what was so special about the house, but it was really dark in here.” Each window had a heavy, wooden shutter, so Kimsey replaced them with light Roman shades to brighten the main living spaces. She chose freshly modern fabrics for draperies and pillows throughout the house and selected light paint colors to complement the darker trims. Bold wallpapers punctuate special spaces throughout the home, including stately green toile in the master bathroom, deep metallic blues and A comfortable ‘keeping room’ connects the kitchen and dining rooms, making the open space ideal for entertaining. The expanded kitchen boasts dramatic cabinetry and modern fixtures over a new island. The breakfast room at the rear was converted into cozy screened porch.
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and prints plucked from a dusty barn behind her great-grandmother’s house – the Honeymoon House, one of Madison’s most iconic historic homes.
In the formal sitting room at the front of the house, a portrait of Kimsey’s great-great-grandmother surveys the space. Two ornate wooden chairs
that once belonged to her stand next to the fireplace nearby, now covered in a quirky fabric with bright red lips by her great-great-granddaughter with an eye for authentic design. They, like everything else around them, are things she loves, all brought together in a home where old meets new.
Kimsey incorporated green midcentury modern chairs with formal upholstered antique chairs around a custom table built by local wood artist, Kipley Meyer. The chandelier is made from rough quarts, dripping from gold branches.
Some of my favorite layout designs are home features like this uniquely curated Kimsey home when I get to marry my two lovesarchitecture and graphic design.