IQ GUYS: Winners at the 10th anniversary of the IQ Awards in Boulder gathered on stage. (Photo: Jerry Lewis)

The Boulder County Business Report recognized nine area companies for their innovative products and services this week at the 10th anniversary celebration of the IQ (Innovation Quotient) Awards.

Winners and sponsors gathered on the stage of the Boulder Theatre for a group photo after all of the winners were announced. Some 65 companies were nominated, with finalists in nine different categories.

Denny Hanson, founder of Apex Sports Group, won IQ award in Sports & Outdoors category. Apex has put the comfort of a snowboard boot into a downhill ski boot.

Pictured above on stage, left to right, are: Liam Davis-Mead and Shane Taylor, ScriptPad Inc., winner in Social Media/Apps; Gary Horton, Western Disposal Services Inc. (event sponsor); Stuart Batty, Stuart Batty Enterprises LLC, winner in Consumer Products/Services; Yancey Spruill, DigitalGlobe Inc., winner in Business Products/Services; Nathan Thompson, Spectra Logic Corp., winner in Computer Products/Services; Steve Moulton and Greg Grudic, Flashback Technologies LLC, winner in Life Sciences; Bill Quinn, Trada Inc., winner in Internet/Software; Justin Dodge, Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner Hottman PC (event sponsor); Cory Dixon, Stratom Inc., winner in Robotics; and Denny Hanson, Apex Sports Group LLC, winner in Sports and Outdoors. Not pictured, George Howard, Heartland Renewable Energy LLC.

For more information on the winners, read the Boulder County Business Report story.

Flag picture, taken at friend's Memorial Day picnic, was enhanced using the Photo fx app for iPhone.

All of the fuss and Steve Jobs-bashing about the iPhone 4’s antenna problems haven’t mattered much to me since I’m still having fun discovering new apps and learning how best to use my iPhone 3GS that I bought early this summer. Yes, I was a latecomer to the iPhone, but I’m now a converted fan.

See two more pictures Jerry took with his iPhone at bottom of article.

One of the things I like best about the iPhone is having a camera with me most of the time. As an amateur photographer who loves to shoot and post pictures for friends and family both on Facebook and Flickr, my preferred compact camera is the Canon PowerShot A2000 IS, a great yet affordable camera with a 10 megapixels resolution and 6x optical zoom. Still, I don’t always remember to carry it with me, or just don’t want to bother with the weight in my pocket.

With a 3.2 MP resolution in the iPhone 3GS, you can get some pretty good shots … not great, but good enough. A friend asked me if the iPhone could shoot photos to be used in a professional print brochure. The answer to that is clear: No, get a better camera and probably spend a little money with a professional photographer to make sure your business image is as good as it can be.

Add some apps

With just a handful of excellent apps, you can greatly improve the final outcome of your iPhone photographs. The iPhone 4, by the way, has increased resolution to 5 MP, offers a new built-in LED flash and a front- and rear-facing camera lens. All good features that already makes me want to upgrade – as soon as it can quit dropping calls from the present antenna problem.

After reading several online reviews, and there are many, I chose several apps to help me out with my iPhone 3GS photos. A few I now use all the time, a few others only occasionally.

• CamZoom: This is probably the app I use the most to shoot photos. The iPhone camera lacks a zoom feature, and for most shots, I like to zoom in for a closer shot. The basic app is free with a Pro version for just 99 cents. It gives you up to 5X digital zoom in real time. Sharing options include ability to send the photo by e-mail or post to Facebook and Twitter. Another zoom app that I see recommended in reviews is Camera Genius. My only complaint with CamZoom is that the zoom control is right next to the shoot button, and it’s very easy to accidentally shoot a photo as you are trying to zoom. That’s a fix they need to make.
• Easily posting photos to Facebook and Twitter is another great thing I love about the iPhone. It’s quick, and you’re able to share a photo almost as quickly as you shoot it. I chose PhotoScatter as the free app (a Pro version also available with faster downloads) to submit photos. Using PhotoScatter you can post your pictures simultaneously to numerous sites, including Facebook, Twitter (via Twitpic), Flickr, Shutterfly, PhotoBucket and Picasa. After posting to Facebook, of course, you have to then go into your Facebook account and approve the photo, but that’s also easily done via your iPhone. Just be aware it’s an extra step you do need to make in order for your photos to appear on Facebook.
• OK, you’ve shot a picture, but it’s a bit too dark (common with the iPhone camera) or perhaps you’d just like to tweak the colors a bit, maybe even add a special effect. Again, you have many choices, including an app for the popular Photoshop. But I’ve been trying out Photo FX, where you can choose from about 67 different filters ranging from Edge Glow to Sunset/Twilight Temperature to a Wide-Angle Lens. Usually, Photo FX is just a fun tool to edit your photo, including basic crop, rotate and straighten options, and then try some different textures, even layering textures upon one another. PhotoFX has a total of 780 presets with 117 different lighting patterns. So you can kill a lot of time playing around in this app.
• A simpler, easy-to-use photo effect app is the popular CameraBag, a $1.99 tool that’s fun to try out. To be honest, I don’t use it that much anymore, but it does give you some interesting and simple photo enhancements. It simulates styles from cameras of the past including 1974, a faded, tinted look from your dad’s old cameras; and 1962, a high contrast black and white shot. You can see thousands of photos submitted by users at the web site, www.nevercenter.com/camerabag.
• Another weak point of the iPhone camera is its inability to shoot in low light or even night situations. That’s why NightShot comes in handy sometimes, giving you more light to your night photos. It gives you three different types of a soft flash to get more light: low, medium and high. For 99 cents, it’s a good app to have when you need it.

There are a slew of photo apps available, and I want to try out a few more, maybe including a tracing app like ToonPaint. A good review of several phone and video apps is on the Brainz blog.

Give yourself a little time to experiment and to figure out each new photo app, and that means shooting several photos in different environments. For any photo that I really like I will usually do more serious editing by downloading to my MacBook Pro and using either iPhoto editing tools or Adobe Photoshop for much more detailed work.

When all is said and done, however, I still love the iPhone camera for its flexibility of numerous photo apps, ease of use and just having it with me nearly all of the time in my pocket. There’s also the iPhone video, but that’s another story for another time.

This article also appears in Jerry Lewis’s blog, Boulder Report.

Late afternoon iPhone photo on Haystack Mountain Golf Course in Boulder was taken with NightShot photo app, giving it a bit more light.

Photo of the Boulder Creek Festival on Memorial Day taken with iPhone 3GS.

ALL-DIGITAL: Digital media panel at Boulder Economic Summit included, left to right, Winston Binch, partner, Crispin Porter + Bogusky; Seth Levine, managing director, Foundry Group; and Chris Scoggins, senior vice president, DataLogix. (Photos: Jerry Lewis)

Boulder business, education and government leaders took a look into the future 25 years from now and saw everything from a much older population and a shrinking employment base to a digital media and outdoor recreation Mecca that continues to attract “multi-preneurs.”

But as University of Colorado economist Richard Wobbekind reminded attendees at the 2010 Economic Summit on the University of Colorado campus Wednesday, June 2, in the words of Yogi Berra, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

CU economist Rich Wobbekind said the fastest-growing area of Boulder's population in the next 25 years will be people 55 to 69.

That said, there were no shortage of experts from the hot business sectors of clean tech, digital media, natural & organic foods, outdoor recreation and biotech willing to stick their necks out and make forecasts. The theme for the well-attended summit, sponsored by the Boulder Economic Council and CU, was “Boulder in 2035: Opportunities & Insights.”

First, a few of the facts, emphasized by both business research statistics from CU and generally what everyone who lives in Boulder already knows.

Boulder can’t expand

“Boulder has drawn a line in the sand,” said David Driskell, director of community planning and sustainability for the city. “We’re not going to grow out, we’re going to grow in.”

Redevelopment of Boulder areas such as its east Arapaho corridor (near CU’s developing East Campus) and the aging Diagonal Marketplace retail center are where the city will be placing its attention.

The reality, Driskell emphasized, is that Boulder will never be all things to all people. And that no doubt includes businesses looking for larger manufacturing facilities. “We’re going to continue to incubate startups,” he said.

If you just happened to move into the city and somehow remain oblivious to Boulder’s staunch slow-growth philosophy, several charts and graphs from Wobbekind put some new wrinkles on a well-known story.

For a city that’s long touted its place as an entrepreneurial haven for high tech, the numbers now show employment in advanced-tech sectors is actually declining. Technology brings higher productivity, Wobbekind explained, resulting in fewer jobs for high-tech workers. The most recent example? Hewlett-Packard’s announcement of some 9,000 layoffs from its technology-services division, where data centers will become fully automated.

Job losses in tech sector

In the recent recession, more than 70 percent of the lost wages in Colorado occurred in advanced-tech sectors that included professional services, manufacturing and information.

A quote from Yogi Berra seemed appropriate as Boulder leaders looked toward 2035.

In other not-so-shocking news for anyone who’s been in Boulder for very long, Wobbekind forecasted a nearly flat growth rate through 2035, for both employment and population growth, while “satellite” cities like Broomfield, Longmont and Erie will continue to attract new jobs and increase their populations.

Another Boulder Valley city, Louisville, which is making a conscious decision to limit housing but encouraging commercial growth, also may find its job growth limited as employers seek out cities where their employees can find homes.

“It’s just not getting any cheaper to live in Boulder or Louisville,” Wobbekind said.

High on Wobbekind’s list of changing demographics not to be ignored is the fact that Boulder, like all of Colorado, is aging.

Those who moved in during the growth years of the ‘70s and ‘80s are now nearing retirement age. In the city of Boulder alone, Wobbekind says, the 55-to-69 age group and those over 70 will have the most dramatic increase in numbers in the next 25 years.

Areas to watch for growth

Services such as health care and transportation, as well as a declining tax base as seniors reduce their spending, are all areas to watch, he said.

Although rail and other multi-modal transportation choices may become available, expect an increase in commuters driving cars in search of job centers. Even shorter trips are going to take longer due to congestion.

Not all forecasters, however, bemoaned a future of gray-haired senior citizens clogging up the freeways.

Panelists looking at the future of digital media reminded summit attendees that Crispin Porter + Bogusky, a global advertising company billing $1.7 billion annually, came to Boulder because it knew the city’s quality of life would attract the younger talent it needs to survive and grow.

Looking very far ahead is nearly impossible in the fast-changing digital world, said Winston Binch, a partner with CP+B. “Just figuring out what will happen next week is a challenge.”

Changing world of marketing

The company is moving much of its work to mobile platforms, as the iPad and millions of new mobile-phone apps dramatically change the way businesses reach their new customers.

You’ll soon be using your phone to buy your Starbucks and display your airline-boarding pass, Binch said. “Social commerce,” he predicted, is here to stay.

Foundry Group venture capitalist Seth Levine said the rise of digital media is allowing marketers to measure their results like never before.

Social media and software geeks are the new “Mad Men” of the advertising world, Levine said, and Boulder, with resident companies like OneRiot, Lijit, video ad network SpotXchange, creative agency Victors & Spoils and even Google, are creating a “nexus” of communication companies for the future.

With CP+B helping to launch the Boulder Digital Works at CU, and other tech gatherings like Glue or TechStars gaining national attention, Boulder continues to stir up a pot of the right ingredients for digital media success.

Boulder also continues to grow its reputation as an epicenter for both the natural and organics food movement and outdoor recreation and sporting goods companies.

Organic foods veteran Barney Feinblum predicted that the word “natural” will probably disappear from food labeling as “organic” becomes the accepted standard. As an example, he pointed out that organic milk producer Horizon is now the leading brand of milk being sold in the U.S.

While organic products today are only about 3.5 percent of the market, he believes price premiums will decline, and organic goods will capture up to 25 percent of the food market in the next 25 years.

A company like Whole Foods, Feinblum said, will expand beyond organic and healthy foods to selling electric cars and residential renewable energy systems.

“Our industry is looking to get ahead of the curve on sustainability,” explained Lori Herra with the Outdoor Industry Association. And this presents environmental challenges when most of the outdoor recreation products are manufactured overseas.

Even on the federal level, Herra said, the conversation is starting to change from “extraction” on federal lands to recognizing the economic strengths of “recreation.”

On a global front of buying cocoa for its popular chocolate products that include M&M’s, Snickers, 3 Musketeers, Dove and Milky Way, the private family-owned business has embarked on an ambitious goal of buying only 100 percent certified sustainably grown cocoa by the year 2020.

Company representatives Suzanne Stites, cocoa flavanol platform leader, and Howard-Yana Shapiro, global officer for plant science and external research, met me in Denver to talk about why Mars chose to expand the definition of a certification program –- one that could be built throughout the world’s largest cocoa growing areas of West Africa, East Asia and South America.

The project, called “Certification Plus,” is attempting to build a coalition of the largest cocoa buyers as well as major suppliers, while also developing buy-ins by governments and the international donor community.

For Mars, the missing ingredient in a cocoa certification program, Shapiro says, was productivity.

The $13 billion global chocolate industry is huge, with demand for cocoa growing from 2 to 3 percent per year. But small rural farmers remain in poverty, with many growing only about 450 kilos of cocoa per hectare, Shapiro says.

“We had to ask ourselves, where are you going to take a stand?” he says.

Seeking a sustainable model

The Mars goal, made public about a year ago after intensive research at its Mars Center for Cocoa Science in Bahia, Brazil, started in 1982, seeks a sustainable economy model that will improve the social infrastructure of cocoa farmers with better schools and health care, maintain their “cultural milieu” while also facing up to difficult environmental and ecological challenges.

From the start, Shapiro explains, Mars was determined to make all of its findings public, including research on the cocoa bean genome, the best planting materials, soil science, fertilization and plant grafting.

At first, many people told Mars researchers and scientists they were crazy for believing they could help farmers triple their yields in 10 years, Shapiro says. But by increasing yields, Mars saw a way of actually opening more land to other production such as fruit trees, row crops and high value tropical trees, making farmers’ land more valuable and giving them an insurance policy on their future.

“The other side of intensification is diversification,” Shapiro explains. In rural areas, 75 percent of the people can spend between 65 to 75 percent of their income and still be hungry. “Hollow calories are not nutrition,” Shapiro says.

Mars has partnered with the government of Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa, commonly known as the Ivory Coast and the world’s largest producer of cocoa, and is expanding to production areas around the world.

“Can we do this alone? No,” Shapiro says. “Can we do it with just the Ivorian government? No.” Mars and other cocoa buyers need the help of the international donor community, including agencies like the World Bank, the International Finance Corp, the African Development Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.

Not seeking market control

Mars isn’t contracting to control the market for a sustainably certified cocoa, Shapiro emphasizes. “Everyone has the same ability to buy these cocoa beans.”

The cost for Certification Plus? As a privately held and very private company, Mars officials say, specific numbers are not released. But Shapiro says the company has spent “tens of millions of dollars up to this point” over the past 15 years. And it will cost “tens of millions of dollars” more.

Shapiro, a University of California professor, author and expert on sustainable agriculture and agroforestry systems, is clearly determined to see the Mars’ goals become reality. “This is really the next level to a green revolution,” he says. “And the project doesn’t end in 2020, it goes on forever.”

Why is Certification Plus so important to Mars? Mars is the world’s largest buyer of cocoa bean equivalents by a company that makes a product. Some of the industry’s brokers are larger purchasers, but Mars is the largest buying manufacturer.

“Why?” Shapiro asks. “Because the Mars family recognizes that without a sustainable future, they won’t have a business for their great grandchildren.”

In 10 years, Shapiro believes every Mars chocolate product will be made from sustainable cocoa.

And that includes goodnessKnows, its new chocolate, nut, whole grain and fruit entry into the nutritional snack market. Mars says its “snacksquares” give consumers 200 mg of cocoa flavanols, proven to have health and cardiological benefits. Mars owns several patents on cocoa flavanols.

$28 billion in revenue

Mars operates 135 factories in 68 countries and has annual global revenue of $28 billion, according to company information.

Mars came to Boulder first, says Suzanne Stites, because it’s one of the “happiest and healthiest” places. The testing, with ads running in newspapers, on RTD buses and in-store samples, is now in Denver and soon will kick off TV advertising.

“It’s still early on,” Stites says, but buyers seem to like that the snack is “calorie contained at 150 calories each, and it tastes really good.”

So just one disclaimer here. I only ate one almonds and berries goodnessKnows snack (and one during the interview) while writing this column, but the samples of all three flavors – 4 snacks to a package – seem to have disappeared quickly at my house. It takes four snacks to make one 150-calorie serving, so a few more flavanols for me surely seem like a healthy idea.

This was the second year I was asked to help judge this competition, which looks at the candidates’ career achievements as well as their their ability to project an image that reflects the role of today’s young workforce in society. And once again, this was a tough and close contest, with each of the five women competitors taking the initiative to compete before judges as well as a final speech before members of Boulder’s BPW organization.

In one part of the competition, all of the candidates join in a group discussion, looking to come up with solutions to a topic presented by the judges. With a sex therapist, an ice cream shop owner and others involved in different businesses, from architecture to financial consulting, the candidates decided they wanted to launch an community education group, providing mentoring and education on topics such as equity in pay to other women. And one idea for the name of the group? “Sex, Ice Cream & Business.” Now that could certainly attract some participants.

I was always a supporter of BPW while I was editor of the Boulder County Business Report, and the business newspaper continues to be a sponsor of this competition, along with Flatirons Bank and w3w3.com. Joining me as judges were Sue Deans, former editor of the Boulder Camera, and Wendy Reynolds, senior vice president of Flatirons Bank in Boulder.

Skyler, a Ph.D. and board-certified sexologist, was enthusiastic and kept the audience listening closely as she spoke about her career as a sex therapist. She also writes several sex columns: “Sophisticated Sex” for the Boulder Weekly; “Sexy Shabbos with Dr. Jenni” for the Boulder Jewish News; and Sunday Sex Talk on www.Buffsecret.com. She spoke on how to build healthy sexuality and how this helps men and women in our society.

Shaw also impressed both the judges and BPW members with her own life stories of how she has been a businesswoman for the past six years after encountering sexual discrimination in her first career as a teacher. Her talk about how she lost her job because she was living an “alternative” lifestyle — dating another woman — was open, honest and from the heart.

Also competing were Julie Winslow, an investment adviser with Securian Financial Services; Katie Pekarek, a project manager for Kristin Lewis Architects; and Kathryn Matta, an event specialist with A Spice of Life Catering. All of the young businesswomen are active in numerous humanitarian and nonprofit organizations.

Funds raised from the event help support the Colorado BPW Education Foundation, YWCA and other advancement of women programs. The competition is also designed to attract new young member to BPW, and Skyler won a membership in the organization.

To learn more about the Boulder Business and Professional Women, visit their Web site at www.boulderBPW.org. The group meets monthly with the mission of full participation, equity and economic self-sufficiency for working women.

Music in air as Boulder downtown thaws out.

Entrepreneurs on Boulder's downtown mall.

Future home of Swiss Army knife maker Wenger's first retail store in downtown Boulder.

Meditating frog and cruiser bike ...

Lunch crowd at Salt, new restaurant in home of Tom's Tavern.

Photos by Jerry Lewis

Above: Stu Goldstein with 20/20 Signs installs a bronze plaque on the 17th Street overpass on the Boulder Creek Path commemorating the spiritual run last summer by Arapaho Tribe youth. The run came into Boulder as part of the “Coming Home” weekend for Boulder’s Sesquicentennial Celebration. The installed plaque (at left) will be a reminder of the Arapaho Tribe’s spiritual run from the Sand Creek Massacre site as well as Boulder’s Sesquicentennial Celebration in 2009.

Photos: Jerry Lewis

The fund-raiser, organized by Boulder residents Mike and Caron Ellis with a group of volunteers, is calling itself the ABCDEFG Haiti — short for the Amazing Boulder Carnival Dance and Earthquake Fund Gathering for Haiti.

That might be a mouthful, but for a $25 donation, you get in the door to a night full of music, a silent and live auction and gourmet food prepared by Tom McNeill, owner and executive chef of The Gourmet Cowboy in Vail.

Rockin’ Robin Abb, who organizes Niwot’s Rhythm on the Rails, is the event’s special host.

Dr. Clayton Harper, a dental surgeon who recently returned from Haiti, will be a guest speaker at the event with a photo slide show provided by Dr. Jim Sears of “The Doctors” TV show about his recent mission to the country.

The fun gathering runs from 7 to midnight at the Boulder Elks Lodge, 3975 25th St., and tickets are available online at www.ABCDEFGHaiti.com. If you can’t attend the event, you can also make donations directly on the site.

Caron Ellis said she and her husband, with the help of several volunteers, have pulled the event together in less than a month, forming a nonprofit so they could move the proceeds easily to the Red Cross.

All of the performers, who include Chris Daniels, Ayo Awoskia, Jaden, Megan Burtt, Rob Drabki, Kyle James Hauser and others, are donating their time. There will also be face painting by Eydie Cady, palm readings by Mryna Lou Goldbaum and caricatures by Ken Crouse. Auctioneer Glenn Locke will lead the live auction, which will include a year of Comcast Triple Play service, courside Nuggets tickets, an electric bike and more.

The Carnival is a major holiday for Haiti, and now you can enjoy the costume contest, dancing and cash bar at the Mardi Gras-themed fund-raiser for just $25 on Friday night, Feb. 19.

But the emergence of a plethora of easier-to-use and often mobile technologies and media is widening how many people, including many children, are starting to put themselves into the rather loosely defined category of “creatives.”

Mary Ann Mahoney, left, director of the Boulder Convention and Visitor's Bureau, with Heather Clisby, project coordinator for the inaugural DiMe symposium, at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder.

Don Hall, left, producer of Disney's The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, was a panelist for DiMe. He also directed Walking Sleeping Beauty, a documentary being shown at the Boulder International Film Festival.

With the success of the 3-D movie Avatar, the topic of how quickly 3-D will be adopted was high on the list. Calling the hit movie a “significant event,” Rolfe said the movie has changed viewers’ attitudes from whether they thought it was a good movie plot or not to “Wow, that was quite an experience.”

Theaters are now in a catch-up mode, said Don Hahn, a producer with Disney, to jump on the profitable 3-D movie experience. “It’s a real game changer,” he said, adding that there are about 80 new 3-D theaters being installed each week. The 3-D theaters, he said, generate about 50 percent more profit than standard movies.

The panel also debated whether the new Apple iPad would be another “game changer.” Boulder-based venture capitalist Jason Mendelson, a partner in the Foundry Group, had his doubts, saying he wasn’t that sold on it yet, although he certainly was going to buy one.

But other panelists, including Aidan Chopra, with Google’s Sketchup office in Boulder, and Krista Marks, one of the founders of Kerpoof, which was bought by Disney Interactive Media Group in 2008, quickly disagreed, saying the iPad ’s tablet functionality will start to change the way people can access both entertainment and games as well as their work.

The more ways kids can start to use creative platforms like Kerpoof on the Internet, the more they will continue to expand their skills to become the future technologists and engineers, Marks said.

Life is not all roses with so many emerging technologies, the panel agreed, citing how different platforms — everything from the Apple iPhone to Google’s Android and the new Palm Pre — fracture the playing field for software developers.

Brian Robbins, a game developer who started his own company, Riptide Games, says his goal is to attract attention quickly in the very crowded world of mobile game apps, but adds that getting each game to work on the different platforms makes his business much tougher.

Competing against some 30,000 to 40,000 game apps right now for mobile phones, Robbins said, “If you’re not looked at in the first 30 seconds to a minute, they’re (the user) are gone.”

Other conclusions by the panel included:

• Internet users may have to realize that not everything is going to be free on the Internet. “We need to teach people to pay for stuff again,” Sketchup’s Chopra said. Sketchup has grown rapidly since its acquisition by Google because a “free” version is offered. But the company also sells a “pro” version with more features.
• No matter the media, the story and content is still critical. “Storytelling is in our caveman genes,” Hahn said.
• The DVD format could soon be in trouble, as more people begin to download their media. Younger people are downloading more movies, and “they are totally satisfied,” said Michael Brown, founder of Serac Adventure Films and Film School.

The panel forecast that it won’t be long before the movie industry will offer new releases in DVD format and download formats on the same day as the movie is released. Piracy is one of the factors creating change. “If you don’t give consumers exactly what they want, they will just take it,” Mendelson said.

After the symposium, Mary Ann Mahoney, director of the Boulder Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, said there’s a good chance that DiMe might be expanded next year, perhaps to include some interactive workshops and more presentations.

This article also appeared on Jerry Lewis’s blog, Boulder Report.

The Book

Collen says she’ll talk about her memoir as an artist trying to understand her turbulent relationship with her father, and the astonishing event that occurred after she finished the book.

Collen’s writing is interwoven with her memorabilia, her art and her work as a graphic designer.

The event runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and guests will be able to look over the all-electric Tesla Roadster, with a range of about 244 miles per charge. The Tesla Gallery is located at 915 Pearl St.

To learn more about Tina Collen and her new book “Storm of the i,”, visit www.TinaCollen.com.