Wilmington Renaissance Corporation (WRC) announced that Jamie L. Bennett, executive director of ArtPlace America based in New York City, as its keynote speaker at WRC’s Annual Meeting: Creating Place – Live, Work, Play & Learn, being held on Tuesday, May 6 from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at World Cafe Live at The Queen, 500 N. Market Street, Wilmington.
“We are thrilled to have Jamie Bennett as our keynote speaker,” said Carrie W. Gray, WRC managing director. “His dynamic presentation will inform and energize our community about creative place-making in Wilmington and beyond. We’re also honored to have both Governor Markell and Mayor Williams speaking about exciting developments throughout the state and city.”
Bennett is the executive director of ArtPlace America, a collaboration among 14 foundations, eight federal agencies, and six financial institutions.
Over the past three years, ArtPlace has invested $42.1 million in 134 projects in which artists and arts organizations a role in strategies to help shape their communities’ social, physical and economic futures, according to a release from Wilmington Renaissance.
Until December 2013, Jamie was Chief of Staff and Director of Public Affairs at the National Endowment for the Arts. Previously, he was Chief of Staff at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs during Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s administration.
Jamie has also provided strategic counsel at the Agnes Gund Foundation, served as chief of staff to the President of Columbia University, and worked in fund raising at The Museum of Modern Art, the New York Philharmonic and Columbia College. His nonprofit affiliations have included the Board of Directors of Art21 and HERE Arts Center, the Foot-in-the-Door Committee of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, and Studio in a School’s Associates Committee. Jamie received his B.A. from Columbia College in New York City. The 8th Annual Meeting will update attendees on the continuing development in Downtown Wilmington, focusing on WRC’s core strategic areas of Education, Infrastructure, Quality of Life and Culture while providing an update on the Creative District and the Big Ideas strategies.
Tickets are $50 per person and includes breakfast and complimentary parking at the Court House Parking Garage. Guests can enter from Walnut Street or King Street and ask for a voucher at the check-in table. For tickets call 302.425.5500, or by online by clicking here.
This event is sponsored in part by: DuPont, Delmarva Power, M&T Bank, City of Wilmington, Delaware River and Bay Authority/Wilmington Airport (ILG), Highmark Delaware, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, The Commonwealth Group, ab+c Creative Intelligence, Colonial Parking, Wheeler Wolfenden & Dwares, Out & About Magazine, and World Cafe Live at The Queen.
