Ardem Hardy

Ardem Hardy, known as Auntie Ardem, has been active in the Chicago Armenian community her entire life, holding positions at Taniel Varoujan Armenian School, ARS, AYF, CJC, The Armenian Weekly, Camp Haiastan and two Olympics Steering Committees. Despite two degrees in Marketing, her love is always art. She volunteers her time teaching drawing, crafting, canvas painting and face painting. She also creates murals in both Chicago and Armenia, where she works as an art teacher every few years at an orphan camp with her own children. Her husband Jim, from the Racine Armenian community, cannot draw a stick figure; their children Aren, Tavit and Natalie, are active in the Armenian community but would rather get a root canal than draw a rainbow.