Workshops
You Feel You, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA, February 2023
Mapping You: Exploring the Neighborhood of Self, the Arts Center at Governors Island, New York, NY, September 2022
Documenting with Hand-Drawn Maps, Glasgow Zine Library, Glasgow, Scotland, June 13, 2021
Hand-Drawn Mapmaking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, January & February 2020
Hand-Drawn Mapmaking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, November 2019
Drawing All Over, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2009
HDMA attends Philly Zine Fest to collect maps from visitors, Philadelphia, PA, September 11 2009
Hand Drawn Baltimore, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, June 13 2009
HDMA attends the Baltimore DIY Festival to collect maps from visitors, May 19 2009
Exhibitions
Selected maps featured in Code Number Safe [Un]Safe, Hicks Art Center Gallery, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA, 2023
Selected maps featured in MAPnificent! Artists Use Maps, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY, 2013
Nowhere: selections from the files of the Hand Drawn Map Association, curated by Kris Harzinski, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, 2010
Selected maps featured in You Are Here: Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City, curated by Katharine Harmon, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, 2010
Collection of maps becomes part of the permanent collection of the University of Colorado Library, Boulder, CO, 2010
Maps and digital archive featured in All Over the Map, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2009
Perspectives: Hand Drawn Maps of Your World and Beyond, curated by Kris Harzinski, Florida International University Library, Miami, FL, August 2009
Works Published
Visual essay, “A World of Maps,” Les Others No. 7, 2018
Visual essay, “Lost Maps,” exhibition catalog of Datascapes, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University-Newark, 2014
Kris Harzinski, “Jersey Fresh”, Pidgin, 2011
Kris Harzinski, From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association, Princeton Architectural Press, 2010
Visual essay, “Utopia Dystopia,” Bookforum, Summer 2010
Selected maps featured in Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design, Gestalten, September 2008
Press
Mark Wilson, “Google has a secret design library. Here are 35 of its best books,” Fast Company, August 7 2019
Michael Williams, “The Art of The Hand Drawn Map,” Blueprint for Living, ABC Radio National, April 30 2016
Julie Winterbottom, “Imaginative Maps,” Mental Floss, September 2015
Simon Garfiled, “Simon Garfield’s top 10 books with maps,” The Guardian, October 24 2012
Maria Popova, “7 Must-Read Books on Maps,” The Atlantic, July 1 2011
Edith Newhall, “Maps to places real and places richly imagined,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 7 2010
Rosecrans Baldwin, “From Here to There,” The Morning News, September 13 2010
Erik van den Berg, “Van daar naar hier, en omgekeerd,” De Volkskrant, September 11 2010
Randall Mikkelsen, “GPS? Mapquest? Not for fans of hand-drawn maps,” Reuters, September 13 2010
Britta Conroy-Randall, “Getting Lost with Hand Drawn Maps,” Studio 360 Blog, August 20 2010
Julia Turner, “She Does a Better Job Than Map Quest!” Slate, April 28 2010
“Ten Spot,” Readymade, October/November 2009
Titia Ketelaar, “Kris Harzinski collects hand-drawn maps,” NRC Next, October 20 2008
Robin Young, “Hand Drawn Maps,” Here and Now, WBUR, September 30 2008
Tony Gonzalez, “Hand Drawn Maps Give Personal Perspective,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 3 2008
The Hand Drawn Map Association is founded in March 2008 with a collection of 9 maps found by Kris Harzinski while sorting through old papers.
