Attendees, CAG Members: Joan Salome-Rodriguez, Moderator. Katia Kelly, Michael Kilian, Peter Reich, Jason Schwartzman.
Guests: Irene Baker, National Grid; Aaron Kaufman, Gowanus Remediation Trust.
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1. Checked status of the Storyboard with GRT. Chronical Heritage is working on setting up an account with a platform for activity. No certain date yet. Arts GIS is a multi-media platform that allows photos, video, text and audio and the Story Map is the history of the Gowanus Canal. Aaron reports that it is undergoing final internal review and may be published later in March.
Getting our stuff out there
2. Peter shared info on the Affordable Arts Fair at the Starrett-Lehigh Building – 621 West 26th Street in Manhattan.
3. Share materials with committee to send first tranche to Johnny and Emily (Arts Gowanus) for the Walkabout Tour. Joan has gathered her Gowanus Graffiti photos and put them in a zip drive for Johnny and Emily. Everyone else should start to do the same. Michael to help her put it in a Google Doc so it can be shared and maybe have locations?
4. How the WalkAbout works – There will be a QR code there that folks can use that takes one to a website with a map the viewer uses to find their current location and see what was there before the re-zone. Will invite Johnny and Emily to an upcoming meeting. https://gowanusimprovementdistrict.org/get-involved is where the Walkabout link lives. The actual Walkabout link is here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c878d7e5ed124f27942a436244695ebb
5. Jason created an excel document that compares what materials already exist in various walking tours. It gave us a good starting point to decide on materials. We went over it together.