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Mary Johanna Brown '89, founder and president of Brown & Company Design and Big Brown Books, has been named the University of 易胜博官网鈥檚 Paul J. Holloway Entrepreneur of the Year.

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An avid champion of the arts, Brown has both juried and curated local art exhibits, grants, and public work commissions. She and her eighteen-year-old daughter Haley co-created Brown鈥檚 Art Camp in 2012, a summer camp offered yearly to girls, with an intensive week-long immersion into various art mediums and local artists.