DIRECTOR Amanda Meininger Tandus-Centiva 512.635.6382 ameininger@tanduscentiva.com
DIRECTOR ELECT Kimberly Phipps-Nichol Abel Design Group 713.554.6722 Kphipps-nichol@ abeldesigngroup.com
HOUSTON CITY CENTER IIDA WINE WALK BEAR DRIVE | HUG-A-BEAR CAMPAIGN IIDA Houston City Center joined forces and donated 80 bears from our Wine Walk Bear Drive this past December to IFMA Houston Chapter’s Hug-A-Bear Campaign. The bears were distributed to the Houston Police Departments so that officers can carry them in their units to comfort children who have suffered a traumatic experience. IFMA collected 647 bears in total from our generous industry. We are all proud to be a part of this record number! Thank you to Charlotte McFadden and Necia Bonner for organizing on behalf of IIDA and thank you to JCS for picking up and delivering these bears to HPD.
PAST DIRECTOR Joanna Prazak CRG 713.542.4360 prazakj@crgoffice.com
PUBLIC RELATIONS CHAIR Shannah O’Neill The HON Company 281.507.2988 oneills@HONcompany.com
COMMUNITY SERVICE CO CHAIR Kristina Lopez JCS 832.221.1817 klopez@j-c-s.com
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HOUSTON CITY CENTER
COMMUNITY SERVICE CO CHAIR Heather Rogers McCoy 713.679.0807 hrogers@mccoyinc.com
IIDA CHILI COOK-OFF BENEFITING TAID The 3rd Annual IIDA Chili Cook-Off Benefitting TAID was a huge 18-team success at the beginning of February at St. Arnold’s Brewery. Judges from underwriters HON, CRG and Pioneer struggled with so many amazing entries, but in the end gave out trophies underwritten by Johnson|Simon and Wittig’s in these categories: Spirit Stick: Inventure Design- Outhouse Cookers
UNDERWRITING CO CHAIR Margot Prestel MDI Resources 713.201.7569 margot@mdiresources.com
Most Unusual Ingredient: Global Best Traditional Chili: Bolyu Best Bacon Chili: Gensler + Tandus-Centiva Spice It UP!: Wood Group Mustang A huge crowd came out to partake of beer and chili… all for a great cause! Houston City Center
UNDERWRITING CO CHAIR Sean Pantin PBK Architects 512.784.7679 Sean.Pantin@PBK.com
was able to donate $2,500 profit from the event to TAID, Texas Association for Interior Design; an advocacy group speaking as a single unified voice on legislative issues which affect the business of interior design in Texas. IIDA TX/OK Chapter most recently participated in Legislative Days in Austin to encourage a bill introduced that may remove the $200 occupational license fee that many have paid for many, many years. (This is $200 out of the total you pay to renew with TBAE each year). At this time only the architects section, 1051.652 was listed. TAID urged the lobbyists to include RID’s and LAs in the verbiage to apply equally to everyone under the umbrella of TBAE. Take a look at the new and improved Advocacy portion of the IIDA Chapter website:
CAMPUS CENTER CHAIR Duraiya Khan PBK Architects 713.354.0900
http://advocacy.iida.org/ WOOD GROUP MUSTANG
Duraiya.khan@pbk.com
GRAPHICS CHAIR Thien Tran CRG 337.412.7176 ttran@crgoffice.com
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COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR Anna Garrison Dunn acs Flooring Group, Inc. 832.506.5987 adunn@acsflooring.com
HOUSTON CITY CENTER IIDA CHILI COOK-OFF BENEFITTING TAID, CONT’D. INVENTURE DESIGN
SUSTAINABILITY CHAIR Ashley Elks Powers Brown Architecture 713.224.0456 elks@powersbrown.com
SUSTAINABILITY LIASON
GENSLER + TANDUS-CENTIVA
Evelyn Band Kimball Office 678.315.5773 Evelyn.band@kimball.com
MEMBERSHIP CHAIR Heather Barlow T&L Distributing 713.854.2449 hbarlow@tldistributing.com
GLOBAL
INDUSTRY CHAIR Stacy Dobbs Invista 281.475.9284 Stacy.Dobbs@antron.net
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BOLYU
HOUSTON CITY CENTER N
PROGRAMS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CO CHAIR Charlotte McFadden Office Pavilion 713.595.0575 cmcfadden@ ophouston.com
PROGRAMS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CO CHAIR Necia Bonner Inventure Design Group 281.433.0408 Necia.bonner@ invdesgroup.com
ASSOCIATES CHAIR Kate Barkmann Abel Design Group 713.554.6723 kbarkmann@ abeldesigngroup.com
ASSOCCIATES LIASON Meghan Simecek Kirksey Architecture 713.426.7506 meghans@kirksey.com
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STUDENT CONFERENCE LIASON
HOUSTON CITY CENTER
Jennifer Trenta CRG 832.594.6830 trentaj@crgoffice.com
STUDENT CONFERENCE LIASON Monica Ward McCoy 832.752.0284 mward@mccoyinc.com
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HOUSTON CITY CENTER J.TYLER Jennifer Longbotham President longbothamj@jtyler.com
J.TYLER Gary Longbotham Executive VP 832.876.7351 longbothamg@jtyler.com
J.TYLER Jason Longbotham Vice President longbothamjt@jtyler.com
J.TYLER Tyler Longbotham Creative Director 281.827.1904 longbothamt@jtyler.com
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HOUSTON CITY CENTER J.TYLER Marcy Brammer, Assoc. IIDA Design Director 316.409.7912 brammerm@jtyler.com
J.TYLER Jessy Fuller, IIDA Business Development 409.363.3243 fullerj@jtyler.com
J.TYLER Kim Dutkosky, IIDA Walls Specialist 832.535.2634 dutkoskyk@jtyler.com
J.TYLER Polly Block, RID Business Development 832.722.4915 blockp@jtyler.com
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HOUSTON CITY CENTER IIDA STUDENT CONFERENCE 2016 | SAVE THE DATE Be sure to save the date for next year’s Student Conference: February 17-19th, 2016.
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HOUSTON CITY CENTER UPCOMING EVENTS METROCON DALLAS AUGUST 14-15 NEOCON CHICAGO JUNE 15-17 DOUBLE CEU NIGHT INCLUDING THE “CEU ON CEU’S” JUNE 25TH TENTATIVE: BARRIER FREE CEU JULY 23RD ART AND ARTIFACTS OCTOBER 16TH STUDENT CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 17-19, 2016
WELCOME, FEBRUARY NEW MEMBERS! Connor Burnam, Art Institute of Houston Dana Thierry, Planning Design Research Elizabeth Thompson, Art Institute of Pittsburgh Janie Stevenson, Lamoureaux Associates, Inc. Jessica Greenwood, WHR Kate Sharp, Kirksey Kelli Lathrop, Art Institute of Houston Kressia Rodiguez, English + Associates Architects, Inc. Leigha Carman, Abel Design Group Lydia Hagel, Louisiana State University Megan Sanchez, Art Institute of Houston Michelle Mancini, Vanir Rhonda Stegent-Orr, American Tile & Stone Sahar Javaheri, Lebco Industries LP Yadira Sanchez, Houston Community College
INTERESTED IN JOINING? Email Heather Barlow at: HBarlow@TLDistributing.com
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