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Vice chair: new traveling mural drew strong festival turnout; crosswalk vinyl being updated
Summary
Vice Chair Schmidt said the new traveling mural—temporarily installed on the genealogy building—drew wide attention at the Germantown Festival, and reported the city will seek longer‑life vinyl for creative crosswalks and form a public art fundraising task force.
Vice Chair Schmidt told the Design Review Commission that the city’s new traveling mural, unveiled at the recent Germantown Festival, attracted strong public attention. "I think there was probably about 1000 pictures taken in front of that over the course [of] the festival," he said, and staff have temporarily installed the piece on the front of the genealogy building facing Poplar Pike while following a schedule for subsequent locations.
Schmidt also raised maintenance concerns with the city’s creative crosswalks, saying the vinyl sheets used degraded faster than expected and will be replaced with a different chemical composition intended to extend longevity. He added that a public art fundraising task force is being formed to explore funding options. No dates or funding targets for the task force were provided on the record.
