We all need great sponsors to make an event a success, folks always say this but we want to reiterate how important our sponsor community is for an event like our's. Ticket sales only make up a very small portion of the operating and marketing costs needed, the sponsors generously take care of the rest. They're the best!!!

Everyone contributes in so many ways, financially of course, we need that most of all to pay for venue rentals, advertising, flights, etc. But our sponsors also contributed in more active ways such as Flower Studio's incredible floral pieces they created in the mezzanine. Designed by Lisa Simms, these pieces took countless hours to design and then build on site. Lisa was assisted by Beth Oberholtzer (from sponsor Oberholtzer Design) who was up on a ladder for most of Saturday afternoon helping pull it all together). Simply gorgous! Leaman Signs custom built the podium for us that we'll be able to use year after year, while iDesign added the purple wrap on the podium to help it tie in to this year's event branding. Fastsigns printed and delivered signage for our lobby. SAM Design provided the gorgeous furniture on stage - those chairs the boy sat in are incredibly comfortable you should pop in to ther storefront and sit in one yourself, you'll be blown away. They also brough the Fogo Island Shop furniture which ws featured on the right side of the stage. All these pieces are handmade on Fogo Island and available for sale at SAM Design. And of course, MINI St. John's knocked it out of the park by providing incredible MINI Countryman car for us to run all our last minute erands getting ready for the big show.

Thanks again to all sponsors! Here are their logos again - our extended design community, friends, co-workers, fellow-creatives. Love you all!

The Art of Influence was a lot of fun to see come to life. We will be back next year and hope you will be too. We would love to get your feedback – this event is meant to belong to all of us, and your ideas mean the world to us. Tell us what you liked and where you think we missed the mark. Our goal for next year is to fine-tune and improve in every way possible so please fill out the form below. Last year we received comments offering points of improvement and we actively looked to do a better job on every single comment we got last year, so please do send along comments - we take them very seriously. We've made it anonymous so you can say what you feel. Sign the bottom if you want us to know who you are, but no worries if you don't.