Evening with the Artist at the Leventhal Map & Education Center on March 7th

Enlarged historical map is seen on the floor just before you enter 

the Leventhal Map & Education Center. 

Evening with the Artist at the Leventhal Map & Education Center on March 7th

I'm currently developing ideas for using historical maps from the collections from the Leventhal Map & Education Center for my workshop that's scheduled for March 7th. Using copies of historical maps of Back Bay, we'll explore Back Bay before 1857 and 1882. What happened to these years? Did you know that Back Bay was literally a bay before 1857? Massive landfill project began that year, and the present day Back Bay was filled by 1882. I'm looking through their online collection and finding many great maps for this workshop!

The workshop is free but registration is required. Participation is limited to 20 people. If you're interested, please register for the workshop.

"Our Evening with the Artist events invite you to look, listen and create. Look closely at art and map pairings in the Crossing Boundaries: Art // Maps exhibition at the Leventhal Map & Education Center. Listen to an artist talk. Create something inspired by the artist's work and process."

Boston Globe review on "Crossing Boundaries: Art // Maps"

"Crossing Boundaries: Art // Maps" was reviewed in the Boston Globe! My work was mentioned in this review written by Mark Feeney.

"A map is at once abstract and representational. It’s abstract because it doesn’t look like anything that exists in the external world — as say, a portrait, does a human face. It’s representational because it renders actual relationships in the external world — like distances, heights, and direction. So the issue of a map’s intrinsic beauty aside — and some of the cartographic items in “Crossing Boundaries: Art//Maps” are very beautiful indeed — read more. 


The exhibit poster was designed with detail image of my work, "Water, is Taught by Thirst (BLUE), Greater Boston" on the left, and detail image of the 1892 blueprint map, "Map of Charles River Showing Principal Sources of Pollution"by the Boston Engineer Department. 

The Leventhal B. Map & Education Center put together a very insightful online exhibition. My drawing is included in the section called, "Coastlines & Waterways." You can explore each sections, and learn more about each map and artwork that's paired.