{"id":1786739,"date":"2018-11-22T16:07:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T21:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786739"},"modified":"2018-11-27T18:20:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T23:20:22","slug":"creative-cartography-making-art-with-discarded-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/creative-cartography-making-art-with-discarded-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Cartography: Making Art with Discarded Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keren Shi, “The Magic Place.” Watercolour and cutting on maps. ASU Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Creative Cartography<\/a>: Since 2014, students of Ellen Meissinger’s Art on Paper class at Arizona State University have taken discarded maps from ASU Library’s Map and Geospatial Hub<\/a> and put them to use as raw material for art projects. Every year since then those projects have been the subject of an exhibition<\/a> hosted by the Map and Geospatial Hub: this year’s exhibition, Place and Space<\/em><\/a>, opened on 7 November and runs until the 26th. (That’s next Monday. Get a move on.) [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creative Cartography: Since 2014, students of Ellen Meissinger’s Art on Paper class at Arizona State University have taken discarded maps from ASU Library’s Map and Geospatial Hub and put them to use as raw material… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1315,50],"class_list":["post-1786739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","tag-asu","tag-exhibitions","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1842701,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/06\/exploring-the-history-of-geospatial-software\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786739,"position":0},"title":"Exploring the History of Geospatial Software","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"13 June 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Ingrid Burrington is working on a PhD dissertation on the history of geospatial software and she\u2019s posting through it. 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