A collaborative atlas: Desire Paths is a course in multimedia map-making, exploring radical cartography and personal geographies to consider our histories and our spatial relationships, while imagining possible futures.

Each session will focus on an element of maps. We will explore that

element through reading, discussion, and a play-exercise to activate it. The explorations will culminate in the creation of an interactive atlas, with contributions from each participant. The elements include the following: Scale(Context), Legend, Reference Point/Landmark (“Real”/ “Imagined”/ “Virtual”/ “Physical”), Grid (How is space broken down? Organized? Understood?), Omission/Negative Space (What is Left Out)/Power.

This class takes place online.

Upon registration, students will receive access to online class meetings.

Sliding scale available for BIPOC students (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). Contact Millie Kapp at [email protected] for more information.

Liz Clayton Scofield [they/them/their] is a cloud, an orange, and a sonnet, seeking like- minded nebulous accumulations, fruits, and poetic forms to play with across skies, trees, and pages. They are an interdisciplinary artist, writer, wanderer, play advocate, and collaborator currently based in Baltimore, MD. Their creative practice involves a lived performance in collaboration with tiny toy versions of themself, where they explore how to play, how to be a cloud, how to connect with others, how to eat an orange, and how to love, among other things. Their work has been featured in publications including Number, Nashville Arts, Wussy, and Dinner Bell. Exhibitions and performances include Cucalorus Festival, SeedSpace, Fuller Projects, and Noise Gallery. They have been an artist-in-residence with Cucalorus, the School of Making Thinking, Lazuli, and the JHU-MICA Film Centre. They hold an MFA in digital art from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a made-up BA from Vanderbilt University.