With paint, maps, and newsprint, visiting artist takes a multi-layered look at cultural identity
In his speech at the annual DiMatteo Lecture, Billy Gérard Frank explained the artistic process behind his “Indigo: Entanglements” series.
Social Work students convey complex ideas through mapmaking
Each of the four maps produced by Dr. Paula Gerstenblatt’s Social Work class used different techniques including collage and allegory to illustrate how student loan debt grew into a national problem.
Setting boundaries without stoking divisions
Dr. Bill Rankin talks about the role cartography can play in counteracting us vs. them thinking by recasting borders as a middle ground rather than dividing line between cultures.
Sun Journal: Mapping the history of New England’s once-booming textile industry
Read the Lewiston Sun Journal’s article featuring the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education’s textile mill exhibition, “Industry, Wealth, and Labor: Mapping New England’s Textile Industry”.
Map exhibition straddles the border between fantasy and reality
For anyone who’s ever dreamed of following Dorothy over the rainbow or flying to Never Never Land with Peter Pan, an exhibition at the Osher Map Library points the way.
OML offers bird’s eye look at post-Civil War Maine
The Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education project — “Maine’s Bird’s Eye Views, 1870-1905” — has gathered 80 aerial renderings of Maine communities published during the era. Each has been digitized and made available to the public online.
Maine Sunday Telegram: Collaborative Exhibit puts Osher Library On the Map
The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education was featured in the Portland Press Herald on Sunday, November 1, 2020. The article features the Map Library’s involvement in the Digital Project, “Mapping a World of Cities.”
USM historian invites public to contribute to online archive of COVID-19 signs
Some of the fleeting Maine images of COVID-19 — of light-up marquees, lawn signs and storefront warnings — are being collected in an online … Read More
Digital Humanities Approaches to English Studies
On October 3, 2018, students from Professor John Muthyala’s English 370: Literatures of Discovery, Exploration, and Colonialism met in the Osher Map Library and … Read More