Wednesday, April 1
6-7:30 pm | Zoom
Free to Register!
Map icons are tiny symbols included on maps like Google Maps. While small and compact, map icons carry significant meaning and locate places along with people, events, and stories. Sometimes, however, they also reinforce social injustices. Feminist mapping provides a framework that can help us create map icons that are context specific, reflect our experiences of places, and challenge social injustice. In this presentation and workshop, Syracuse University Assistant Professor and mapmaker Meghan Kelly will discuss her research and introduce a feminist mapping framework through a series of examples, then guide the digital design of a series of alternative map icons using this framework collectively.
This program is offered in conjunction with the special exhibition Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023.
About the Speaker:
Meghan Kelly is an assistant professor and mapmaker currently at Syracuse University in the Department of Geography and the Environment. She is also the Faculty Director for SU’s Cartography Studio, a student-centered mapping lab that transforms spatial data into meaningful visual stories by collaborating closely with clients.
Meghan works at the intersection of cartography, feminist theory, and digital storytelling. She is particularly interested in the role of power in spatial data, map design, and mapping processes. Her most recent project, for example, examines the ubiquity and use of satellite data in the news and our everyday lives through a Black feminist lens. In her work, she aims to rethink and expand conventional cartographic tools and techniques through alternative perspectives.
Joyce Kozloff
Knowledge #33: Arabia, 1492, 1998
Fresco on panel
8 x 10 inches
Courtesy of the artist and DC Moore Gallery, New York
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.
