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March W. Chadwick, Architect
Founder, Chairman Board of Directors
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March is the founder of CA Society, with an active hobby making portraits, architect, and teacher. Owner of M.Arch Architects based in New York City and Chattanooga Tennessee. March often travels between the Northern and Southern United States. On these travels it can be observed differences. People are the same everywhere, they desire freedom to love, work, and raise healthy families.
Geography is different. The geographic history in the north is different, large prehistoric glaciers carved deep cuts in the earth’s crust creating the large modern ports capable of forming massive markets of trading goods around the world. These ports became hubs of communication where many languages were spoken and world markets of trade flourished.
By contrast the South had limited access to world markets but flourished in agriculture and cultivating families necessary to manage the land.
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Observing this you can see the differences in people have a lot to do geography and the work they do on that land to pursue happiness and feed their families.
Observing how messed up the United States Congress appears in 2023 March decided to form a business teaching these skills (which are really just the act of doing and sharing good energy attempting to capture beauty) and practicing on a subject matter that is quite beautiful but rarely gets together. Congress does however get together bi-annually on the North Steps of the US Capitol in Washington DC for a public photograph. This bi-annual date varies but in 2024 it is January 8th. In hopes of making January 8th a more important date in US collective memory than January 6th March decided to recruit as many artists possible to join this collective effort to DRAW out Congress!
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Licensed Registered Architect,
State of New York, Tennessee, New Jersey, Connecticut, Texas
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Georgia Institute of Technology; Masters of Architecture
University of Tennessee; Bachelor of Architecture
NYU Schack School of Real Estate Continuing Education
Boston Architecture Center; certificate of Architecture
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NYU-Poly Tandon School of Engineering; adjunct professor of Civil Engineering
The Cooper Union; school of Architecture Saturday Program
Columbia University; Certificate of Real Estate lecturer
Pratt University; Architecture studio critic
New York Fashion Institute of Technology; guest lecturer and studio critic
New York Institute of Technology; Adjunct professor of Architecture
City School of New York; guest lecturer and studio critic
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Watercolor 2000, Houston, TX, Invitational Exhibit
The Lotus Club, New York, NY,
The Arthur Haughton Gallery, New York, NY,
Salmagundi Club, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, Scholarship Exhibition Award.
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2017 Bisnow “New York’s AREA CRE Tech Accelerator…”
2017 Presentation and exhibition at NY Build Expo
2017 Presentation and demonstration at Manhattan Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
2016 CRE.Tech “Six Startups Join AREA Real Estate Technology Accelerator”
2016 TechDay Exhibitor
2016 Disrupt CRE NYC, public speaking and exhibitor
2014 BigApps NYC participate https://zoner.splashthat.com/
2013 Municipal Arts Society Best Building of Year Award – Columbia University Campbell Sports Ctr.
2012 Buildings New York Expo, public speaking panel and exhibitor
2011 Open Data 500 NYU GovLab http://www.opendata500.com/us/zoner/
2011 Journal of Building Information Modeling: The Cost of Not Using BIM. Analysis the building industry’s design production with close examination of current inefficiencies used in design and construction offices. The burden of these inefficiencies greatly outweigh the cost of BIM training and education.
2011 Founder and Author of Zoner – A software application for mobile devices that calculates the total allowable building bulk and its worth within the Android Market.
2002 Architectural Record: Davis Brody Bond, New York Public Library, photography and editorial review of the New York Public Library South Court Addition historic marble exterior transformed to a building interior serving a public and staff functions of auditoriums, training rooms, faculty lounges, and staff offices.
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AIA Cultural Committee Member LEED Certified Professional and USGBC Associate, Smart Building Alliance Member
John J. deSoto, Architect
Board of Directors Member
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Influenced by my late father, illustrator and master artist Rafael M. deSoto, I began painting early in life. I studied architecture in NYC and abroad and have had the privilege of working with many premiere talents in the field. Sensitivity to color and light is foundational to my approach to space planning and to my painting style as well. I see a facade of a building as I do the paper or canvas; concept and potential waiting to be fulfilled.
My paintings tell a story. Be it the ruins of an old church, an unseen detail of the city or an eroded street traveled through the ages, the places I am moved to paint speak to me of what was and, perhaps, what is to come. The history and unique voice of these views begs to be captured before time, the elements and progress silences them forever.
I invite you to share my perspective of the unusual beauty-- past, present and future-- of which we are all a part. Perhaps, the fading voices that echo through these forgotten places will speak to you as they have to me.
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John deSoto received early art instruction from his artist father, the late Rafael M. deSoto, and John deSoto's careers of art and architecture are interwoven reflecting his pursuit of relationships between functional space and artistic expression. In designing buildings, he perceives a facade as a blank canvas ready for a concept to be rendered.
On a painting surface, deSoto takes fragments of every day surroundings and renders them into pictorials, conveying time, place, and emotion. "As an Architect, I try to utilize the details that are in nature; my structures evolve out of an empirical process allowing the site to assist in the forms. When I paint I see the surface rich with opportunity to impart both practical element and sensual appeal, capturing light and color experienced anew."
A descendant of explorer Hernando deSoto, John deSoto has traveled in Europe and the USA and has designed several private residences in the states of New York, New Jersey and California.
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The Cooper Union, New York, NY.; Bachelor of Architecture
New York University, New York, NY; Certificate Program
The American Academy, Rome, Italy
(Studies in Classical and Renaissance Art and Architecture)
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Faculty Member, I.D.C., Brooklyn, NY; Architectural Rendering and Design
School of Continuing Education, East Islip School District, NY; Watercolor and Acrylic
Bayshore Assembly, Bayshore, NY; Children's Arts and Crafts Workshops.
Private Instruction/Classes in Painting, Drawing and Demonstrations throughout the NY area.
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Watercolor 2000, Houston, TX, Invitational Exhibit
The Lotus Club, New York, NY,
The Arthur Haughton Gallery, New York, NY,
Salmagundi Club, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, Scholarship Exhibition Award.
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Best of Sketching and Drawing (Rockport Publishing 1999)
Best of Acrylic Painting (Rockport Publishing 1997 and 1998).
Best of Drawing, (Rockport Publishers, Rockport Mass, 1998).
Wired Magazine, April 1997. (Feature article on MSNBC New Cable TV facility. Design., Full color spread)
Architectural Record, (Drawings and details of Corning glass research facility, Corning, NY)
Architectural Record, 1981 (Drawings and Renderings of MIT sports complex, Cambridge, Mass).
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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Allied Artists of America
National Society of Painters Casein & Acrylic.
Salmagundi Club
National Arts Club
Gen Art- NYC.
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Hill and Knowlton, New York, NY
NBC - National Broadcasting Company, New York, NY
Barnet Bank, Sarasota Florida
Dr. R. T. Stobaugh, Bradenton, Fl.
The Moore Family, Sarasota, Fl.
The Robert Lesser Company, New York, NY
The Magurno Family, Long Island, NY
Kokoris Associates, Architects, Westchester, NY
The Hernando deSoto Historical Society, Bradenton, Fl.
Art for Autism
The University of Ohio at Bowling Green, Library of Popular Culture.
World Wildlife Fund
Ralph Yozzo, CTO
Chief Technical Officer
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CoGoogle Developer Organizer since 2009. Google developer group organizer, NYC Community Education Council Member, Computer Developer of Transparency applications, Dems committee former blue check. Developer of open government information sites such as https://prop.tidalforce.org/ Ralph was born in the computer age and grew up with a computer keyboard attached to his fingers. Ralph wrote one video game using a Radio Shack and a cassette tape drive and never wrote another game. The reason is that games are simply random number generated worlds that are a waste of the player's time. Ralph continued to love computer programming to this day, many decades later. After careers at IBM, Goldman Sachs (criminals), NYNEX / Verizon, Consolidated Edison, many small startup etc. and then some finance / computer companies and some non profit companies (some of the most wasteful companies are non profits). If you want to hear the truth about the industry go to https://www.youtube.com/@RalphYozzo and contact me via twitter at https://twitter.com/fedex1 Ralph was blessed to be born near the Cuban Missile Crisis (when humanity was near the brink of self destruction) and then near Ralph's 50th year New York City was brought to it's knees with Hurricane Sandy showed New York City who is in control.
Ben Droz, Photojournalist
Advisor
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Ben Droz is a freelance photographer in Washington, DC. Known for capturing the liveliness of parties and events around DC, Ben shoots for the blog Brightest Young Things and has had his work published in the Washington Post and Express (among others).
Ben Droz worked as the lead lobbyist to legalize Industrial Hemp on the Federal Level from 2008-2016.
I taught myself how to be an effective non-profit lobbyist on Capitol Hill for federal legislation. I was able to build Congressional support over several years. With a solid base of bipartisan support, Senate Majority Leader McConnell felt comfortable taking the lead on the issue. On January 1, 2019, my work was realized, when the full legalization of hemp went into effect.
Sociology, Cognitive Science @Goucher College
Photographer · Employee @Washington Life magazine
Dec '10 - Present (13 years 10 months)
About Vote Hemp - F6S Profile
Legislative Liaison · Employee @Vote Hemp
May '08 - Present (16 years 5 months)
Roger Sichel, Photojournalist
Advisor
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Photographer, Artist and Festival Producer, Roger’s prolific creative experience spans generations and genres. From creating one of New York’s first artistic film festivals with judges Andy Warhol, Gore Vidal and Milos Forman to producing rock concerts with the Doors, Four Seasons and Isaac Hayes nationwide, Roger identifies most as a cultural observer and photographic journalist.
His photographs documenting 60’s and 70’s music lifestyle, particularly those heralded during the Woodstock era, have been featured in various Hearst & McGraw Hill Publications to rock magazines.
In the 90’s and early 2000’s, he took a break from his career as an artist to pursue successful sojourns in film, university lecturing and most importantly, technological and entrepreneurial innovations.
Roger has now entered the next phase of his artistic career and is choosing to explore neo-pop mixed media, inspired by his own life, as well as current events, while simultaneously preserving the legacy of his work in photojournalism.