L.A. Unfolded: Maps from the Los Angeles Public Library October 14, 2008

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Richard J. Riordan Central Library
Getty Gallery, 2nd Floor
630 West 5th Street
Downtown Los Angeles
Kindly RSVP at (213) 228 -7500.
L.A. Unfolded: Maps from the Los Angeles Public Library draws from the Library's vast collection of maps, one of the largest in American public libraries. With a focus on Los Angeles and California, the exhibition presents a broad range of maps from early Los Angeles surveys to tourist maps of the 1940s, exploring the allure of maps and their place in our lives. L.A. Unfolded is accompanied by a series of free public programs for adults and families. For a complete listing and schedule, visit: www.lapl.org/events/unfolded.

October 15, 2008 – January 22, 2009
Central Library – Getty Gallery

The exhibition focuses on Los Angeles and California and features topographic surveys, tourist guides, real estate maps, pictorials, illustrations and more. Highlights include a 1791 Spanish explorers’ California coast map; a 1975 Goetz Guide to the Murals of East Los Angeles; and Artist-Historian Jo Mora’s masterly illustrated 1942 city map. The exhibition draws exclusively from the Los Angeles Public Library’s own map collection, one of the largest collections owned by a public library in the U.S.

The exhibition will also display the winning entries of neighborhood maps created by student participants in the Los Angeles Public Library’s 2008 teen summer reading program. Along with the exhibition, free ALOUD lectures called the “Ground Truth” series will take place on three Sundays this fall in Central Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium. The series takes its name from the practice of checking the accuracy of a map or aerial image by visiting the actual location.

Also, in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), family festivals are scheduled for Nov. 2 and Jan. 18, 2009. Families can view the exhibition and then join LACMA artists to create their own maps in the Central Library’s second floor Rotunda. For information, call (213) 228-7500.

Official Website: http://www.lapl.org/events/unfolded