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TBBCA Impact Awards
The 27th annual Impact Awards, presented by the Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts (TBBCA), recognized
Mark Mahaffey with the Patron of Culture and the Arts Impact Award; Kent Lydecker with the Individual Impact Award;
and Bob Glaser of Smith and Associates with the Business Impact Award. Janet Echelman was presented with the International
Artistic Achievement Impact Award in recognition of her innovative work that defies categorization, as she creates fluidly moving
experiential sculptures on a giant scale that respond to environmental forces. The Mission of TBBCA is to unite businesses
to champion arts and culture for a prosperous community.
Dada Glaser was thrilled that her former
husband and best friend Bob Glaser, the
president and CEO of Smith and Associates
Real Estate, was awarded the Business Impact
Award. Smith and Associates has continuously
demonstrated exemplary support of the
arts and culture of our community.
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Lorna Taylor, the president and chair of the
TBBCA board, who co-chaired its event with
Stephen Gay, thanked Dr. Kanika Tomalin,
the deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, for assisting
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman in
presenting a key to the city to awardwinning
artist Janet Echelman.
Janet Echelman, who grew up in the Tampa
Bay area, was selected to be honored with the
International Artistic Achievement Impact Award
for her sensational works that have become focal
points in more than 36 cities on four continents.
Janet’s mother, artist and jewelry maker
Ann Kantor, expressed her great pride.
Cookbook author Toni Lydecker congratulated
her husband Kent for being selected to receive
the Individual Impact Award. Kent was the
director of the Museum of Fine Arts,
St. Petersburg, from 2010 until this year.
Christina Moody and Mickey Gorsage, senior
vice president and chief strategy and business
development officer of Tampa General Hospital,
which was named the #1 Hospital in Tampa Bay
by U.S. News & World Report, attended this
prestigious event that recognized arts supporters.
Mark Mahaffey and his wife Marianne are
generous philanthropic supporters of the arts.
Mark was the recipient of the Patron of Culture
and the Arts Impact Award. He is the board
chair of the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg,
and The Mahaffey Theater is named in
honor of his family.