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Upcoming Events : HDMA NYC

Wednesday, September 15, 6pm

Kris Harzinski and two contributors to the collection, Matthew Rodriguez and Will Haughery, will present a lecture and book signing at the New York Public Library. [more info]

Thursday, September 23, 6-8pm

The exhibition You Are Here: Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City opens at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery. Curated by Katharine Harmon, it features works by a variety of contemporary artists who map the emotional landscape of the city. [more info]

Our contribution includes a selection of maps from an open call we ran this summer. Contributors featured in our collection include Tony Dowler, Will Haughery, Janine Nichols, Yumi Roth, Gowri Savoor, Rob Servo, Krista Shaffer, Kees Touw, Dean Valadez, and Shane Watt. The exhibition continues through November 6, 2010.

Timeline of Activities

Kris Harzinski travels 3 miles from his home in Fishtown to talk to a great group of people at Azavea, a geospatial technology firm based in Philadelphia.

Jul 30 2010

A small collection of maps become part of the permanent collection of the University of Colorado Library. The group includes this map, the first ever collected by the HDMA, rescued from a trash bin in Glasgow, Scotland in April 2000.

Jun 10 2010

A collection of maps is featured in the summer issue of Bookforum. Illustrating a special section on utopia and dystopia, it features maps from our upcoming book by Dean Valadez, Kees Touw, Dorathy Lye, Clifford Eberly, Marcin Siehankiewicz, Dash Shaw, and Keith Garcia.

May 30 2010

Julia Turner from Slate magazine wrote a great article on hand drawn maps. She Does a Better Job than Map Quest, includes a nice mention of the Hand Drawn Map Association's collection.

Apr 28 2010

Having had so much fun at the DIY Festival in Baltimore, we decide to setup a table at the Philly Zine Fest to collect maps and hand out our newest creation, a handy map of things to do in Philadelphia.

Sep 11 2009

We setup another blog, Unidentified Maps, to share the unidentified and anonymous submissions we get at the HDMA. Today the blog features all kinds of things we encounter that don't quite make sense on our main site

Sep 4 2009

A selection of maps from the HDMA’s physical archive goes on view at the Florida International University Library in Miami. Here's a list of contributors whose maps were featured in the exhibition and more pictures

Aug 6 2009

We return to Baltimore to run a workshop called Hand Drawn Baltimore at the Contemporary Museum. The workshop is part of the Reverse Ark Schoolhouse a project by Future Farmers. A few pictures from the day.

Jun 13 2009

The HDMA travels to Baltimore and sets up a table at the DIY Festival to collect maps from passersby. They even had their own hand drawn map of the space.

May 19 2009

The HDMA is invited to participate in the exhibition All Over the Map at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. We created a series of three screenprints for the show and also traveled to Sheboygan to run an open workshop on mapping.

Feb 15 2009

We finish out 2008 with a poster campaign, sending 120 posters to HDMA fans all over the world.

Nov 11 2008

The Hand Drawn Map Association is founded in March 2008 with a collection of 9 maps. These first 9 maps come from a collection of maps Kris Harzinski found while cleaning and was rounded out by a few maps collected from friends.