Partnering with Artworks

November 30th, 2007 at 12:26pm Toby Campbell Permalink

I spoke with Terry Pottmeyer, the Executive Director of Artworks, this morning. She said that they would be happy to share image files of some of the murals their youth have created with us. She asked whether the images would be accompanied by a little blurb about who created it and where, with a link to their organization. I said I thought there would be something like this, although I’m not sure exactly how it will work.

I told her I would follow up via email to let her know specifications of file size, what kind of a blurb we’ll need, and dates when we would need the information by and have it up on the site. We should talk about these things so that we can give a consistent set of information to interested organizations.

Before we spoke, I sent Terry our PSO information page, and the I explained a bit more about the project to her over the phone. She asked why youth would want to use our site over something like myspace. I emphasized the local component and the ability for youth to organize around local issues and/or organize local music/art events. I’m aware that we may want to continue to talk about this so that we can be prepared with a compelling and thorough answer to that question because I suspect it will come up a lot.

So, we’ve got one organization on board to contribute a bit of content for the launch! It sounded like Terry was open to having more conversations as we get rolling and can specify more ways we might be able to collaborate as well.

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