Showing posts with label quilts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilts. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Minneapolis Carto Quilt

The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) begins its annual meeting in Minneapolis today. One NACIS tradition is the Carto Quilt, a cartographic collaboration. Quilt squares are different views of the host city. Here is this year's Minneapolis Quilt.
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Here are a few close-up details. Unfortunately the resolution won't allow for good legibility.



Hopefully someone at the meeting will take higher resolution images. Better yet, maybe NACIS can put readable (and find-able) versions of these on their web pages.


Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Map of the Week - Quilts of Perception

Diane Savona, a mixed media and textile artist from New Jersey sent me some nice pictures of map quilts she's done. Here is "A Map of Hometown Perceptions" showing the area around Paterson and Passaic, New Jersey.


In her own words:
"A young man told me that he is afraid to go into neighboring Paterson, with it’s mostly African American population: it’s dangerous. I’m a middle-aged woman, and feel no such danger. I thought about this as I was reading “Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad” and wondered if I could use my quilting to explore subconscious feelings and prejudices. This map explores the perceptions we develop about our homes and our neighbors. Most of the materials used were obtained at local garage sales.
I was born & raised in Clifton, pictured here as the all-white, fiercely non-integrated community of my childhood – the borders are tightly sewn with measuring tapes. Now living in the much more interesting city of Passaic, I sewed in layers of Jewish, Hispanic and African textiles. One section of Passaic is marred with soot, representing the big fire several years back. The neighboring town of Nutley is presented with a police badge, reflecting my son’s view of it as a highly regimented police state. West Paterson is seen as merely a rise of ground – growing up in the shadow of Garret Mountain, I had no idea what lay behind."

This detailed section helps to clarify the above quote.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Map of the Week 113-L(a)titudes Exhibit

Tonight is the opening reception for L(a)titudes - a multimedia exhibit at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center where artists "explore mapping borders and boundaries of Israel and Palestine". Among the artists featured is MOTW fan favorite Nikolas Schiller who made this map quilt from a CIA map of Israel - the image on the right is zoomed in.











Unfortunately the JCC web site does not provide much information about the artists so I had to do some digging to find other materials such as the map below from Karey Kessler. I guess you just have to go to find out more. The exhibit will be open until June 2nd so if you're in the neighborhood it's probably worth a visit.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Map of the Week 112-Happy Valentines Day from Egypt!


I was working on a google maps project for my job when I started drifting off to other areas of the world. I got mesmerized by the aerial view (bottom right) of a section of the Nile River near Luxor (Al Uqsur) near the bottom of the map below. I decided to try making a quilt a la Nikolas Schiller. The quilt came out OK but on further review, I decided it would make a nice Valentine's Day heart. So enjoy this content-free Valentine's card from Map of the Week!



Thursday, June 14, 2007

MOTW #79

Nikolas Schiller is a slightly eccentric map nut who has done a lot of interesting stuff including creating a series of "Quilt Projections". These are aerial photos that are mirrored to look like quilt patterns. The link below is just one of many-this one shows quilts for various state capitol buildings. Warning - these take a long time to download so go get a beverage or something while you wait.


Thursday, March 16, 2006

MOTW #21

A quilt map of the wonderful state of Oregon by one of Portland's finest bloggers, songwriters and quilters, Michael5000
see below for the author's description

"Each square of this Quilt Map of Oregon represents 12 miles square. The map is loosely based on land use maps from the Atlas of Oregon (q.v.). Quilting represents county boundaries. Most major cities, mountains, and lakes are shown, and are accurately placed within four or five miles. Those familiar with the state should be able to pick out the Ochoco, Strawberry, Blue, and Wallowa Mountains, as well as familiar features like the Willamette Valley, Mt. Hood, Crater Lake (and Wizard Island!), and the lower Columbia River. " -Michael5000