The Compass Roses project, a part of the (virtual) Three Rivers Arts Festival, is a compilation of artist submitted maps of Pittsburgh, curated by Nadine Wasserman and Renee Piechocki.
The maps were created by a diverse group of artists, and cover topics such as places to cry by yourself downtown, to a bike tour of places in and around Downtown that highlighted notable places of resistance movements, strikes, and uprisings, to documenting Native Americans in the Strip District.
From the Compass Roses curator: Maps by Artists offers a selection of maps created by visual, literary, and performing artists. For each map, the artists were asked to consider and interpret Pittsburgh in any way they wished. The content of each map is therefore unique and might contain readily recognizable places or imaginary ones or those that have been forgotten or are unfamiliar. In this city of neighborhoods held together by roads, bridges, tunnels, stairways and walkways, this project invites a journey of discovery in which people can traverse, wander, wonder, reflect and share, using an artist’s map as a guide.
While currently part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival, the project will be archived here: https://compassroses.art/
I’ll probably end up posting about individual pieces in the future.
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