Collecting Maps Since 2008
With your help, the Hand Drawn Map Association has assembled a collection of over 500 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 maps with you via this website.
That said, after four years, it has come time to slow things down a bit in order for me to concentrate on other matters. To this end, beginning today, the HDMA will no longer accept submissions for the web archive. Though it will gradually cease to be updated, it will remain available to the public via handmaps.org. I have a rather large queue of maps yet to post, so you can continue to look for new maps over the next couple months.
I still want to explore opportunities for the HDMA and will continue to lecture about hand-drawn maps. As our 2010 exhibition at Arcadia University proved, I think gallery installations are the best way to experience the physicality of these ephemeral objects. Eventually I plan to donate the collection to a museum, university library or other appropriate archive. I believe this revision to the website will allow me more time to focus on these goals. If you have any suggestions please let me know.
The HDMA will continue to accept hand-drawn maps for our physical archive, so please continue to send mail to our address in Philadelphia.
I greatly appreciate all of your contributions to the collection and for your support and words of encouragement.
Thanks again and please keep in touch,
Kris Harzinski
Terms and Conditions
Our goal is to share our collection of maps with the widest audience possible. To this end, by submitting work to the HDMA you grant us permission to use your submission as indicated below. You still have the right to use your material in any way you see fit, you are simply allowing us to publish the work here and to share it in other ways such as exhibitions and publicity.
When you submit maps or other images or information to the HDMA, you are giving us a perpetual, royalty-free license (that is, "permission") to use, reproduce, publish, and otherwise exercise intellectual property rights with respect to your submission, including storing it electronically and using or incorporating it in other works and in any media now known or later developed, including without limitation, in published books and public exhibitions. You also agree that we can use your submission at our discretion, including cropping, tinting, or otherwise altering it for our uses, and we can share it with the public through different methods. Finally, since this is a public project, you agree not to hold the HDMA or any of its members or agents responsible for any uses the HDMA or anyone else may make of your submission. If you have any concerns about sharing the information contained in your submission with the public, you should not submit it to the HDMA.
