Chris Cannon Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

United States

Chris Cannon has 14 years of public involvement, community engagement and community development experience and is a Certified Public Participation Practitioner by the International Association of Public Participation. His career has centered on ground-level work to craft successful community collaboratives for positive community action and advancement. Chris is known for balancing complex stakeholder relationships with a focus on community goals and individual stakeholder needs to facilitate productive progress through individualized community-based exchanges. He focuses on a wide range of techniques to ensure all engagement is designed with intent and his results reflect the reality of the community while establishing a system for improved future engagement.

Georgia, United States

www.cannonballclay.com I’ve been digging into clay for almost 3 years now; its gone from a little Tuesday night class where I could expend some of my pent up creative energy into something I crave to work on every single day. I found joy in learning the basics - ceramics is as much about science as it is about art - and I found joy in learning how to piece together raw materials into something that would eventually become art. But my real excitement came in pushing limits and learning more about how the science could be bent to create even more interesting pieces. And then there’s the risk and rush that comes from working on a piece for hours, days, or weeks, and then putting it into a box that you then heat to over 2,000 degrees while praying it comes out in one piece - sometimes it does, but a lot of times those experiments fail.Over the past three years, this constant success and failure has given me new energy and drive while teaching me so much. After working with incredible teachers and in great community spaces, we went all in and renovated the lower level of our house into a full ceramics studio where I can do what I love in a deeper way.Bio: Cannon is a multi-disciplinary artisan whose evocative works transcend traditional boundaries to explore the complex stories that we hold within. With formal training in photography and design, Cannon has expanded his practice over the past decade with explorations and training in traditional and contemporary mediums alike. He is artist who understands and explores the value and story of the things we collect as a visual study of who we are and the secrets we hold tight.

Georgia, United States

www.curatedbycannon.comcurated by cannon is led by Chris Cannon, a boring government consultant by day transforming into a crazy curator of all things unique and unusual by night. Being one of the few people on earth to have visited all 159 counties of Georgia, Cannon knows the southern backroads by heart, and you’ll find him digging through basements of South Georgia to climbing through attics of North Carolina in search of one-of-a-kind pieces with unique stories.Discover the curations at three locations throughout Georgia: Simple Finds Antiques & Interiors in Chamblee, Georgia; City Antiques & Interior Arts in Roswell, Georgia; and the Mason Jar Shoppe in Helen, Georgia.

Abingdon, Virginia

Executive Director: - Friends of Southwest Virginia, [501(c)(3)]- Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation (Virginia Department of Housing & Community Development)- ‘Round the Mountain: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan Network [501(c)(3)]- Southwest Virginia Cultural Center & Marketplace (Attraction). Government and Non-Profit Leadership- Led successful partnerships to facilitate the economic restructuring of Southwest Virginia (19 counties, 4 independent cities and 53 towns) from a traditional coal, tobacco, and labor-based manufacturing economy to a diversified creative economy focused on natural & cultural assets for long-term economic and community impact. - Collaborated with regional elected officials on the local, state, and national level to achieve individual community and regional goals. - Coordinated eight multi-county and locality collaboratives centered around assets with co-operative strategic planning, asset identification, research and product development, and branding and packaging. Organizational Management- Provided leadership to a team of 26 (16 full-time) employees working in a variety of positions from regional development and marketing to facility management and operations. - Managed one Governor appointed government board and two non-profit boards with a combined total of 65 members, 10 committees, and budgets of over $3.5 million annually. Since the primary operating organization (Friends) was founded in 2009, the organization is forecasted to have the first positive and balanced budget in 2020 with clean audits for all entities. - Managed $7.4 million dollars of federal, state, and private foundation grants in diverse fields from outdoor recreation construction to marketing and community & economic planning. - Provided membership services and programming to over 300 artisans throughout the region. Paid membership within ‘Round the Mountain: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan Network increased 155% in under two years.

Atlanta, Georgia

- Advocated with local, regional and state government agencies to advance tourism development in Georgia’s 159 counties - Led 31 communities and special projects through the Tourism Product Development Resource Team Program, an intensive 15-month long, team-based evaluation program resulting in a master plan for tourism development- Developed and implemented the Tourism Organizational Evaluation - a DMO (Destination Marketing Organization) personnel, policy and practice review and recommendations program for Georgia communities - Managed the Tourism Product Development Grant Program, which assists Georgia communities with over $140,000 in tourism investment each year on innovative tourism concepts - Planned and coordinated statewide tourism projects that promote connectivity through niche markets- Cultivated partnerships and development programs with partner organizations including: Association of County Commissioners of Georgia; Georgia Municipal Association; Georgia Department of Agriculture; and several others.

Columbus, Georgia Area

- Fostered tourism development in a region of 20 counties and 57 local municipalities (culturally diverse communities ranging in population from 400 to 200,000 residents) - Supported the creation and launch of over 25 new tourism products ranging from hotel properties to regional trails during the final year within role - Developed rural counties and communities through intensive overhauls of community development practices focused on sustainable, community led initiatives of small business growth around the tourism economy - Assisted communities in reinventing the marketing of current tourism products to meet the changing demographics of tourists to Georgia, including the state’s consistently growing international visitation - Encouraged and assisted the regional economy through recruitment of federal, state and private grants to develop new tourism product and renovate, restore or reinvigorate existing product - Coordinated the reorganization of the regional travel association and increased participation by 300%

Rome, Georgia

- Developed and enacted the organization’s first comprehensive public relations and marketing plan - Reorganized the organization’s website into a full-service marketing resource with 50,000+ annual views (from 15,000 in 2009) - Redesigned publications into consistent, audience-targeted communication through funding by community partnerships - Coordinated and designed advertising in numerous state and national markets following extensive market research - Executed successful marketing and media relations for annual and special events in Rome, Georgia - Developed social media following (145 Facebook fans in 2009 to over 13,000 in 2013; 12 Twitter followers in 2009 to over 1,500 in 2012) - Planned media familiarization tours that resulted in direct editorial media coverage in regional & national publications