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JOINT EVENT: How Federal Government Redlining Maps Segregated America

  • 3 Dec 2020
  • 4:00 PM

In partnership with the Washington Map Society, CMS invites you to attend our next virtual lecture:

THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER 2020 (Arranged by Chicago Map Society)

Title: How Federal Government Redlining Maps Segregated America

Speaker: Linda Gartz, Chicago-based documentary producer, author, blogger, educator, and archivist

Please join Linda Gartz, for a Zoom discussion about her award-winning book, Redlined, and her discovery of the redlining maps used by the federal government to exclude African Americans from the middle-class dream of home ownership. Inspired by a trove of long-hidden family letters, diaries, photos, spanning the 20th century, Redlined interweaves a riveting family story with the history of redlining. Linda will display digitized versions of original redlining maps, share photos, read short excerpts from Redlined, and speak about the lasting impact of redlining maps that segregated America. Plenty of time for Q&A.

Bio:  Six-time Emmy-honored Linda Gartz is a documentary producer. Her documentaries and TV productions have been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and Investigation Discovery, syndicated nation-wide. Her educational videos include Begin with Love, hosted by Oprah Winfrey and Grandparenting, hosted by Maya Angelou. Gartz’s articles and essays have been published in literary journals, online, and in local and national magazines and newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune. Born in Chicago, she studied at both Northwestern University and the University of Munich and has lived most of her adult life in Evanston, IL. She earned her B.A. and M.A.T. degrees from Northwestern. To learn more, go to  www.LindaGartz.com.

Location: Zoom, 7:00 PM Eastern  /  4:00 PM Pacific

RSVP to John Docktor at washmap (at) gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode.

Agenda

Times are subject to change.

10:00 Registration and Hospitality
 10:30   welcome
10:40 - 11:20 William Mosely

"Satellite imagery and wildfire response: The Palisades Fire"

Planet Labs PBC operates flocks of microsatellites providing a hi-resolution snapshot of the earth every day, and even higher-resolution satellites that capture images on demand.

Customer Success Manager William Mosely will detail how Microsoft AI for Good and Planet partnered to measure the impact of the devastating nearby Palisades fire this past January.
 11:25 - 12:05

Cal Tabuena-Frolli

"Yield 02"

Artist Cal Tabuena-Frolli is following a stint with the Santa Paula Oil Museum with a series of maps and related pieces detailing the history of oil in California, from pre-historic times through 1929. That's when most of us think California oil history begins.
 12:10 - 12:50 Ed LanFranco

 “Map Madness: Corralling, Collating and Categorizing a Cartobiliography of Beijing”

Journalist and sinophile Ed LanFranco will share the various ways the capital of China has been cartographically portrayed throughout the 20th century.
12:50 - 1:30
break
1:30 - 2:10 Jon Jablonski "Resurrecting Landscapes with Machine Vision"

Librarian Jon Jablonski is leveraging collections of aerial photography at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA to build 3-d models of 1930s Yosemite Valley, the Gaviota Coast, and more! By using Agisoft Metashape, the overlapping stereo photographs reveal long-forgotten vistas and have the potential to help find forgotten abandoned oil wells. 
2:15 - 2:50 Debra Scacco

Santa Monica's first artist-in-residence at City Yards, Debra Scacco will highlight how maps, cartography, and the landscape interact in her work as artist and curator. 

bonus: Debra's exhibition "Laboratory for the Future" at Santa Monica City Yards' Propeller Gallery is open through January 2026! She has offered to walk us through immediately after the meeting. The gallery is a short drive away


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