A Peoples Atlas of Chicago
Around the Coyote and
AREA CHICAGO present
Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago
January 15 -
January 18, 2009
Opening Night Reception:
Thursday, January 15 from 5 - 8pm
Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Around the Coyote has collaborated with local arts, education and activism magazine
AREA Chicago to bring
AREA's Chicago Community Mapping Project: Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago to the Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood. In 2006, AREA Chicago began the Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago project by distributing blank maps throughout the city and asking Chicagoans to record their history, knowledge and impressions on the maps. This project taps into the power of mapping as a way of composing a portrait of Chicago by Chicagoans.
AREA Chicago and Around the Coyote are inviting Wicker Park/Bucktown residents to contribute to this map-making project, and will display the maps in an exhibition at the Wicker Park Fieldhouse (1425 N Damen Ave, Chicago) during January 15-January 18, 2009.
Residents participate as a cartographer by using a blank map to draw, paint, write and create their specialized knowledge of the city in a visual form. These maps will reflect the unique insights and experiences of Wicker Park/Bucktown residents and their depictions of the city as they see it. Blank maps have been sent to neighborhood residences, can be picked up at various local businesses, or downloaded at www.aroundthecoyote.org, and will be returned by December 15 to designated drop-off spots (listed below).
Maps from
The Community Mapping Project have been published in issues of AREA Chicago as well as numerous books and magazines. This project has been replicated in cities as diverse as Greencastle, Indiana, Syracuse, New York and Zagreb, Croatia. Find out more at chicagoatlas.areaprojects.com or at areachicago.org
In addition to the January 15th, 2009 Wicker Park Fieldhouse opening reception, Melville House Publishing will host a Presentation and Release Party for the book Experimental
Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, Edited by Nato Thompson and Independent Curators International, featuring contributions by Chicago-based Artists and Organizers: Ellen Rothenberg, Deborah Stratman, Daniel Tucker and AREA Chicago. The event will be held on on January 15th, 2009, from 8pm-10pm, at STOP SMILING Magazine's Storefront - 1371 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
This project was generously sponsored by Around the Coyote, AREA Chicago, the Wicker Park/Bucktown Special Service Area #33, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Download the Blank Map Here
Map Pick-up/Drop-off Locations
Quimby's Bookstore-Wicker Park
1854 North Ave.
The Map Room-Bucktown
1949 N. Hoyne
The Boring Store-Wicker Park
1331 N. Milwaukee Ave
Around the Coyote Gallery - Wicker Park
1935 1/2 W. North Ave
AREA Chicago Offices-Logan Square
2129 N. Rockwell
Wolfbait and B-Girls-Logan Square
3131 W. Logan Blvd
Backstory Cafe-Hyde Park
6100 S. Blackstone
Women and Children First-Andersonville
5233 N. Clark
Mail Locations
Postmarked no later than December 15, 2008
Around the Coyote
1935 ½ W. North Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
AREA Chicago
PO BOX 476971
Chicago, IL 60647
