Collecting Maps Since 2008
With your help, the Hand Drawn Map Association has assembled a large collection of maps in both physical and digital formats comprising an immense variety of unique interpretations of place. It has been an absolute pleasure to share these with you.
The time has come to slow things down a bit in order to concentrate on other projects. Though the web archive will continue to be maintained and made available here at handmaps.org, the HDMA is no longer accepting maps for our website. Submissions for our physical archive will continue to be accepted via postal mail.
I am currently exploring exhibition opportunities for the collection and am searching for a permanent home for the archive. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks again and keep in touch,
Kristofer Harzinski
Activity Archive
New York Map Society Lecture
In conduction with the New York Map Society and the Mid Manhattan Library, the HDMA lectures about hand-drawn maps (of course).
Sep 10 2011
Jersey Fresh
A selection of maps appears in Pidgin Magazine, a publication created by graduate students at the Princeton University School of Architecture and edited by good friend of the HDMA, Margo Handwerker. Our contribution features maps of New Jersey life and it's inevitable relations to Philly and New York and includes works by Dahlia Elsayed, Jeffrey Silverstein, Susan Liedke, and Caitlin Macrae.
Apr 23 2011
Nowhere Exhibition
Nowhere: selections from the files of the Hand Drawn Map Association is an exhibition of over 60 examples of maps drawn by artists, cartographers and amateur map makers from around the world. Included in the exhibition are works from the archive of the HDMA as well as new works chosen expressly for the occasion. Curated by Kris Harzinski, the exhibition was shown at Arcadia University Art Gallery.
Dec 19 2010
Mapping Nowhere
In conjunction with the exhibition at Arcadia, we presented Mapping Nowhere: A conversation with the Hand Drawn Map Association. Contributors to the exhibition from the Philadelphia area discussed their maps and the stories they reveal.
- Participants included:
- Ryan Anderson, Becky Blosser, Keith Garcia, Will Haughery, Andrew Herman, Jennifer McTague, Janell Olah, Krista Shaffer, and Perry Steindel (shown above).
Nov 17 2010
Nov 2010 Contest
Our November 2010 contest featured the Urban Gridded Notebook designed by John Briscella. A perfect journal for hand drawn map fans, each of the 256 pages features a light blue map of a different world city. Carry it with you for the rest of your life and obsessively document your travels around the globe or just write out a grocery list while dreaming of your next adventure. We sent one notebook to Mark Cook on December 14, 2010.
Nov 01 2010
The BIG FEED
The HDMA travels 1573 miles from Philadelphia to Yuma, Colorado. While there, we lecture about maps at the BIG FEED, an annual celebration of public art and the rural landscape hosted by M12.
Oct 9 2010
Oct 2010 Contest
In October we gave away some great hand made books by Katie Gonzalez from linenlaid&felt. Winners included Ricardo Peralta, Dan Craig, Alan Altoft as well as Jodie Levine and Sammy Muench.
Oct 1 2010
You Are Here
The HDMA contributes a collection of maps to the exhibition You Are Here: Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery. Curated by Katharine Harmon
Sep 23 2010
NYPL Lecture
Kris Harzinski, Will Haughery and Matthew Rodriguez talk about hand drawn maps at the New York Public Library.
Sep 15 2010
HDMA NYC
Aug 04 2010
3 Miles
The HDMA travels 3 miles to talk to a great group of people at Azavea, a geospatial technology firm based in Philadelphia.
Jul 30 2010
HDMA UCB
A small collection of maps become part of the permanent collection of the University of Colorado Boulder Library.
Jun 10 2010
Utopia/Dystopia
A collection of maps is featured in the summer issue of Bookforum. Illustrating a special section on utopia and dystopia, it features maps by Dean Valadez, Kees Touw, Dorathy Lye, Clifford Eberly, Marcin Siehankiewicz, Dash Shaw, and Keith Garcia.
May 30 2010
HDMA Notebook
To celebrate the new year, all contributors in January 2010 received a handmade HDMA notebook.
Jan 1 2010
Philly Zine Fest
Good friends of the HDMA, Will Haughery and Krista Shaffer, at Philly Zine Fest. We invited people to sit down, chat, and draw a map. In return they received a hand drawn map of things to do in Philadelphia drawn by Ryan Anderson. A selection of the maps we received are featured in our collections section.
Sep 11 2009
HDMA FIU
A selection of maps from the HDMA’s physical archive go on view at the Florida International University Library in Miami.
Aug 6 2009
Hand Drawn Baltimore
Hand Drawn Baltimore was a workshop at the Contemporary Museum where we helped draw a collective map of the city. The workshop was organized by Ingrid Burrington who we met earlier that year at the Baltimore DIY Fest. Some of Ingrid's work is featured in From Here to There including her preliminary studies for her map of missed connections in Manhattan.
Jun 13 2009
Baltimore DIY Fest
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
All Over the Map
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.
We also had a series of contests where we gave away copies of the posters and packs of Field Notes notebooks.
Feb 15 2009
Poster Campaign
We finish out 2008 with a poster campaign, sending 120 posters to HDMA fans all over the world.
Nov 11 2008
Founded 2008
The Hand Drawn Map Association is founded in March 2008 with a collection of 9 maps. Some were found by Kris Harzinski while sorting through old papers (things he had inadvertently collected over the years) while others came from friends including this map by Yumi Janairo Roth.
Mar 2008
