Today’s presentation: Geraldine Kiefer, Professor of Art, will present an art exhibit, “Iceland/Islandia: Mappings from a Residency in the Far North.”  

To be held in Smith 318.  RSVP HERE. Complimentary wine and cheese will be served.  

Abstract: The concept and show derived from, first, my continuing interest in and fascination with maps, and, secondly, from my targeted Iceland residency in May-June 2016, where I proposed and completed a series of maps based on Renaissance through Enlightenment (16th-18th-century) maps of the island. The original series of maps, created freehand from digital reproductions scanned and downloaded from the Internet, then became the basis for a continuing series of imaginative and exploratory maps of Iceland, concluding (for the time being!) with the late 19th century. All of my maps mark personal and imaginative journeys and transcriptions of a place I hope to know better, and love even more, as I continue to work here and travel there in the coming years.