The Case for Making: A Parent Ed Evening with best selling author and PBS host Kelly Corrigan

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
7:30 PM
Alan Harvey Theater, PHS
$25 General Admission

Includes a copy of the book Marianne the Maker
(Retail price $18.99, to be published June 2025)

Making is essential.

The human mind — miraculous and unique among all living things — is compelled to pull things apart and put them back together in new and better ways.  Creativity (from singing to sculpture, quilting to coding) is fundamental to growth, well being, collaboration and progress. Pulling from the latest research on neuroaesthetics, The Case for Making will make clear that regular interaction with the arts is transformative for individuals and societies while reminding us, in the most delightful way, of the Marianne in all of us.

New York Times Bestselling author Kelly Corrigan and her daughter, debut author Claire Corrigan Lichty, who went to Piedmont's public schools from kindergarten through 12th grade, will discuss the Case for Making and introduce their new picture book, Marianne the Maker, about a determined young inventor.

Marianne’s days are filled with schedules, structure, and soccer. There’s just one problem: Marianne is a maker. She needs every minute of her weekends to scheme and dream, draw and design, to build and rebuild! This is the story of how a creator with a crackerjack imagination finds a not-so-great way to skip practice and create her masterpiece. But will her dad understand?

Kelly Corrigan has been called “the voice of her generation” by O: The Oprah Magazine and “the poet laureate of the ordinary” by HuffPost. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tell Me More, The Middle Place, Lift, and Glitter and Glue. Between books, she hosts a podcast, Kelly Corrigan Wonders, featuring intimate conversations with high IQ/EQ types about well-being, purpose, and impact. Marianne the Maker, a collaboration with Kelly’s daughter, Claire, is her second book for children.