How Arts and Culture Can Save Our Small Towns | Mat Faulkner | TEDxHardingU

Mat Faulkner is president of Think Idea Studio (a full-service marketing company) and serves on many community boards and committees. Mat and his wife, Shelley, have 3 boys, Easton, Lawson and Jace. The couple have also renovated the old Robbins-Sanford Mercantile in downtown Searcy, which now serves as an event center and loft studio offices. Mat is a 2002 graduate of Harding University with a degree in communication management. Mat Faulkner is president of Think Idea Studio (a full service marketing company), board member of the SREDC (Searcy Regional Economic Development Corporation), chair of the Searcy Regional Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Committee, director of the Think ART Project, co-director for Searcy Beats & Eats, past president and current board member for Jacob's Place Homeless Mission, member of Searcy's Beautification Committee and Holiday of Lights Committee, Harding University chapter of Sigma Nu Tau National Entrepreneurship Honor Society, and 2017 member of Arkansas Business' 40 Under 40. Mat and his wife Shelley have 3 boys, Easton 13, Lawson 10, and Jace 8. The couple have also renovated the old Robbins-Sanford Mercantile in downtown Searcy, which now serves as an event center and loft studio offices. Faulkner is a Fall 2002 graduate of Harding University with a degree in Communication Management. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx