CELEBRATION OF DESIGN 2025
YOU for being our
“Howell Nursery” Presenting Sponsor!
and for supporting
2025 CELEBRATION OF DESIGN AT KNOXVILLE BOTANICAL
GARDEN & ARBORETUM
The mission of the ETCDC is to “Envision, Inspire, and Improve East Tennessee Through Design.” We carry out this mission by bringing professional design and planning assistance to communities and organizations who lack the resources to acquire these services through the private sector. We also act as a catalyst to initiate projects within our area and as an advocate for quality design in the public realm.
The Bruce McCarty Community Impact Award is granted to those who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to building a better future for East Tennessee. In 2025, the East Tennessee Community Design Center has chosen to celebrate a group who truly personify this commitment, and the people at the heart of our organization:
our
volunteers.
Collectively, this incredible group has completed over 1300 projects across ETCDC’s 16-county service area, each one helping to improve East Tennessee by creating “better communities by design.”
5:00 - Event Begins - Check in and Valet Parking
Drinks and Heavy Hors D’oeuvres Available
Live Painting - Professor Bill Bledsoe
Live Music - Pinky Ring
Live Bonsai Demonstration - Knoxville Bonsai Society
7:00 - Program - Live Events Conclude
Welcome - L. Duane Grieve, FAIA, ETCDC Executive Director
Volunteer Appreciation - Carey Parker, ETCDC Board of Directors President Auction of Live Art
7:30 - Program Concludes; Art Auction Final Bids
7:45 - Art Auction Bidding Closes
8:00 - Art Auction Item Pick-Up
8:30 - Bar Closes
9:00 - Event Concludes
RECENT AND CURRENT PROJECTS
Learn more about our recent projects at communitydc.org
The Joy of Music School
Volunteer: Jeremiah Corbett, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP (Johnson Architecture)
Clark Center Park
Volunteer: Kathryn Baldwin, AICP (LOSE Design)
Patrick Brown, PLA, ASLA (Ross/Fowler)
ETCDC project work is supported by the following:
Matching Gift Program
Mynatt Park Lucinda Ogle Cabin Pavillion
Volunteers: J. Perry Childress, Owen Magowan, & Wills McAdams (ETCDC Staff)
Solomon Gardens
Volunteers: Roberto de Leon, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP; Ross Primmer, FAIA, NCARB (de leon & primmer architecture workshop)
Educators Resource Center
Brian Ewers, AIA, LEED AP (Dollar & Ewers Architecture)
Bruce McCarty Community Impact Award
The Bruce McCarty Community Impact Award is granted to those who have demonstrated a commitment to building a better future for this region. It is presented by the East Tennessee Community Design Center with the goal of celebrating and perpetuating both the quality of life in East Tennessee and the qualities of leadership of Bruce McCarty.
Bruce McCarty, FAIA, was an American architect who practiced with many prominent firms before becoming founder and senior designer at McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects. During a career that spanned more than a half-century, he designed some of Knoxville’s iconic landmarks and was the city’s most dedicated champion of Modern architecture.
In 1969, Bruce McCarty, then-President of the local AIA, returned from a trip to the community design center in Philadelphia and gathered roughly forty local professionals to discuss the need for such a center in this region. On April 15, 1970, the East Tennessee Community Design Center (ETCDC) was founded.
The physical award was designed by Doug McCarty, FAIA, and is produced by Ernie Gross Designs.
Past Honorees:
The Rev. Dr. Jerry Askew | Mayor Victor Ashe | Mayor Randy Tyree
Thomas McAdams, Esq. | Mayor Madeline Rogero | Pat & Joe Johnson
Natalie Leach Haslam | Faris Eid | Ashley Capps | David Dewhirst
Randy & Jenny Boyd | Carol Evans | Paul James
The 2025 Bruce McCarty Community Impact Award
ETCDC Volunteers
The Bruce McCarty Community Impact Award is granted to those who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to building a better future for East Tennessee. In 2025, the East Tennessee Community Design Center has chosen to celebrate a group who truly personify this commitment, and the people at the heart of our organization:
our volunteers.
The Design Center is incredibly fortunate to have had over 400 documented volunteers since our founding in 1970, with many of these 400 individuals assisting on multiple ETCDC projects throughout the years.
Collectively, this incredible group has completed over 1300 projects across ETCDC’s 16-county service area, each one helping to improve East Tennessee by creating “better communities by design.”
HOWELL NURSERY
PRESENTING SPONSOR
in cooperation with
THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS GARDEN
$10,000+
ETCDC is deeply grateful to each and every one of our over 100 Celebration sponsors this year! We hope you will support those who support us.
Carey Parker & Pat Curtsinger
Andy Oakes
bar sponsor
THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS
GREENHOUSE
$1,000+
Brelsford Properties
GP
Carrie Bearden & Jon Cheek
Mr. & Mrs. John & Lisa Coppala
Fe Design & Engineering, P.C.
Duane & Marsha Grieve
Rider
Lauren
TERRACE
$500+
Arcadis
BarberMcMurry Architects
Blackburn Development Group
BurWil Construction Company
C. Randall De Ford, Architect
Alan Carmichael
City Councilwoman Lynne Fugate
Corian Design
CSI (Knoxville Chapter)
Dover Signature Properties
East Tennessee Economic Development Agency
F.E. Trainer Construction, LLC
General Shale
Kristin Lee Grove
Hatcher-Hill Properties
Hearthside Bank
Henricksen
Hickory Construction, Inc.
Holston Construction Services
Ruth & Don Horton
Jenkins & Stiles, LLC
Knoxville Blue Print & Supply Co.
Lighting Trends
M C Painting, Inc.
Sharon Moore & Patty Boardwine
MS Technology
Jim & Regina Murray
oysk3 Architects
Mike Parish & Susan Kincaid
Beth & Pat Phillips
Reagan Design & Construction
Ross/Fowler
Sanders Pace Architecture
Senior Care Partners of East Tennessee
Smee + Busby Architects
SouthEast Bank Taylor CPA
TDH, Inc.
The IT Company
Three Notch Group
TNBANK
UT Federal Credit Union
Tim Williams
WystWynd Designs
SPECIAL THANKS
IN-KIND SPONSORS
Professor Bill Bledsoe
Charlie Daniel
2025 ETCDC MEMBERS
Sustaining Members
Martha E. Begalla
Phil Lawson
Community Members
Andy Oakes
Design Members
John & Phyllis Eldridge
Exact Tile, Inc.
Carrie Bearden & Jon Cheek
Duane & Marsha Grieve
Haines Structural Group
Mary & Dan Holbrook
Neighborhood Members
Blackburn Development Group
Commercial Environments
Christopoulos & Kennedy Construction
Community Impact Coalition
Denark Construction
DFA (Brent Midyett)
Dollar & Ewers Architecture
Studio Members
Avigail Sachs
Appalachain Arts Craft Center
Becky Hancock
Betsy Quinn
Brewer Ingram Fuller Architects, Inc.
Caesar & Dorothy Stair
Carlene & Max Robinson
Cayce S. Petko
Courtney Cox
David & Susan Snider
Dwane Dishner
Ed Shouse
Center Members
Dr. Alan Solomon
Amy & Greg Midis
Barbara Bernstein
Bill Moorefield & Nancy Campbell
Carol Evans
Charles D. Smith Architecture & Planning, LLC
Charles Fels
Claudia F. Phillips
Cliff & Poppy Beach
Corian Design
Diane Davidson
F. Michael Combs
Finbarr Saunders & Ellen Bebb
Ginny Weatherstone
Charrette Members
COK Office of Housing & Neighborhood Development
Elizabeth Goodale
Georgiana Vines
Hollie Cook
Ira & Jan Lapides
Carey Parker
Doug & Jane McCarty WATE-TV 6
On Your Side
Ruth & Don Horton
Johnson Architecture, Inc.
LOSE Design
A. David & Sandy Martin
Hayes & Hope McCarty
MHM Architects
Faris & Ghada Eid
Jason Young & Darcy Rathjen
Jerry Askew
Kenneth & Cindy Moffett
Kristin Lee Grove
Lane & Matt Odom
Lauderdale
Gayden Green
Honey Badger Custom Homes
Jeff & Linda Welch
John Thurman
Josh & Sarah Shaffer
Karen Sundback & John Owens
Kelso-Regen Associates, Inc.
Knoxville-Knox County Planning
Margaret Butler
Mary Beth Robinson
Nathan Honeycutt
Nathaniel Shelso
Jacob Walters
Gwen Brown
Jim & Diane DeRopp
John W. Craig
John Kenny (Facility Systems Consultants)
Kathryn G. Baldwin
Kimberly Dixon Hamilton, Downtown Realty Inc.
Kristin Colwell
Larry Headla (Facility Systems Consultants)
Leslie & Thomas Bateman
Louise Leighton
Madeline Rogero
Mark & Diane Honeycutt
Marleen Davis
Jeremiah Corbett
Jim & Candy Wansley
Joseph Coen
Maggie Morgan
Manya Pirkle
Kevin Murphy
KCDC
Ross Bryan Associates, Inc.
Sparkman & Associates Architects, Inc.
Medtronic
Merit Construction, Inc.
Amy & Mike Taylor
Old North Knoxville Neighborhood
Stowers Machinery Foundation, Inc.
Norma Lynn Beagle
oysk3 architects
Peter Ludman
Prince Technologies
Robert E. Freeman
Ross/Fowler
Sharon Miller Pryse
Sharon Moore & Patty Boardwine
Steve Cotham
Susanne Tarovella
WystWynd Designs
Wang Li
Megan Chafin
Michael & Nancy Lofaro
Nicholas G. Cazana
Pamela Cannella Treacy
Reid Hartsell
Ross & Megan Goodman
Sarah McCarty & Richard Barrett
Shannon Elliott
Sharon & Rodney McKee
Steven & Jennifer Goodpaster
Sylvia Woods
Dr. Thomas Broadhead
Wayne Blasius
Mike Driskill
R.J. Duncan
Sean Hackett
Will Skelton
Thank you to each and every one of our generous Members!
2025 BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF
BOARD OFFICERS
Carey Parker
President
Nathan Hunter, PLA, LEED BD+C
First Vice President
Ross Goodman
Second Vice President
Alison Oakes
Secretary
Nathaniel Shelso
Treasurer
Kristin Lee Grove
Immediate Past President
EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS
Amy Brooks, AICP
Knoxville-Knox County Planning
Jillian Love
City of Knoxville
Scottie McDaniel
UT College of Architecture + Design
BOARD DIRECTORS
Kathryn G. Baldwin, AICP
Leslie Wylie Bateman
Ben Bentley
Jack Booth
Megan Chafin, AIA
Kristin Colwell, RID, NCIDQ
Jeremiah Corbett, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP
Courtney Cox, Esq.
Julie Dalby, RID, NCIDQ
Elizabeth Goodale
Alli Montgomery, AIA
Sharon Moore
Amy Taylor
Lizz Wetherall, NCIDQ, LEED GA
EMERITUS DIRECTORS
Mary Wells Holbrook
Douglas H. McCarty, FAIA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
L. Duane Grieve, FAIA
STAFF
Jan Mosadegh
Assistant to the Executive Director/Administrator
Perry Childress
Design Studio Project Coordinator
Cam Coppala
Membership and Sponsorship Coordinator
Wills McAdams
Design Studio Assistant
Owen Magowan
Design Studio Intern
1300 N. Broadway Knoxville, TN 37919
865-525-9945 communitydc.org
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Event Map
ENTRY (via Boyd’s Bridge Pike)
WHO WE SERVE
We serve a 16 county region within East Tennessee.
The counties we serve, seen in blue, include:
Anderson
Blount
Campbell
Claiborne
Cocke
Grainger
Hamblen
Jefferson
Knox
Loudon
Monroe
Scott
Sevier
Morgan Roane
Union
PROJECT QUALIFICATIONS
Design Center projects and clients must meet 4 qualifications:
1 Be a nonprofit or community organization
2 3 4
Be for the benefit of the entire community and not solely for the benefit of their members
Be unable to acquire financial or other resources from the private sector
Be able to demonstrate the commitment and ability to pursue the project to completion
