Wednesday, November 19
12 – 1 pm & 2 – 3 pm
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission
In conjunction with National GIS Day and special exhibition Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023, the Everson is pleased to offer docent tours of Contested Territories and other galleries from 12-1 pm & 2-3 pm with first-come, first-served availability for the first 15 participants.
About GIS Day:
GIS Day is a global event held annually on the third Wednesday of November to celebrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its applications in understanding and improving the world. This day, part of Geography Awareness Week, provides a platform for sharing how GIS technology is used in various fields, from climate change to urban planning, and to inspire others to learn about and use GIS.
About Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023:
For more than four decades, artist Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. Contested Territories presents a selection of Kozloff’s works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control. Kozloff’s wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.
Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023 is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Everson is supported by the Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation; the General Operating Support program, a regrant program of the County of Onondaga with the support of County Executive, J. Ryan McMahon II, and the Onondaga County Legislature, administered by CNY Arts; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
