About Us

Katy C. Carignan

Attorney

Katy Carignan has spent her legal career helping individuals build businesses, plan for the future, provide 501c3 assistance to nonprofits, drafting and reviewing contracts, and helping families through the estate and trust administration process. She loves her 1914 home on Lake Huron and the natural beauty of the area.

Katy is also passionate about arts and culture. After working in the arts as a child, it has remained a lifelong passion. She serves as Fundraising Chair for the Murals on Main Festival and a member of the design and the organization committees for RC Main Street. In addition, Katy founded an improv group and in 2023 co-founded a new space for Arts and Culture in Rogers City, the Stone House Studio.

As a young attorney, Katy helped found the Urban Green Partnership in Philadelphia, PA to help community members, businesses, and nonprofits find ways to make the city a healthier and greener place. She rehabbed a 1924 warehouse to create a residency and incubator for artists to live and work in downtown Miami, FL. The project took a blighted property and made it an anchor space in a new downtown arts center. She was the Director of Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and LegalArt where she helped artists and small arts businesses with legal issues.

Education

  • University of Virginia, School of Law, JD

  • College of Charleston, BA

Experience

  • The Stone House Studio, Director and Co-founder

  • The Wallace Firm, Associate Attorney

  • LegalArt, Director

  • Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Director

  • Drexel University, Professor, “Law and the Arts”

  • Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection for Free Expression

  • Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center

  • Co-Chair NE FL Human Trafficking Coalition

  • People Against Rape, Director of Child Victim Services

Community Involvement

  • The Stone House Studio: A Place for Arts and Culture, Director

  • Murals on Main, Fundraising Chair

  • Rogers City Main Street, Design & Organization Committee

  • MyMichigan Hospital Alpena, Planned Gifts Committee Member

  • You First! Improv group, Founder

  • Rogers City Community Theatre: Past Board member and Director, Next to Normal 2023, The Addams Family 2022, and All Together Now! 2021

  • Theatre and Improv Program for Middle and High School Students

  • Community Thanksgiving, committee member

  • Presque Isle Garden Club, Community Garden, Art Walk, Art in Public Space Project: Art Has Power

Melody Hincka

Office Manager & Legal Assistant

Melody Hincka is an experienced administrator and legal assistant. She loves to hike, camp, and explore outdoor areas in Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. She is a self-described skywatcher and loves the auroras we are lucky enough to see in Northern Michigan.

Melody is a proud mother of three young women and two grandchildren. She enjoys volunteering in the Posen and Rogers City communities, including the Posen Potato Festival, Nautical Festival, and Hops in the Hole. She also serves on the organizing committee of the Murals on Main Festival.

An art lover, Melody is also the Assistant to the Director of the Stone House Studio. She and her husband Josh, direct the annual Nautical City Festival Charity Poker Tournament.