Compass Rose marries maps and lived experience. Founded by artist Debra Scacco, this city-wide collaboration rooted in community, history, storytelling and cartography deconstructs the map, drawn by and for the powerful, in efforts to redraw geography via the social and cultural webs that connect us to one another.

Now on view

1344 Third Street Promenade 
Santa Monica, CA 90401

November 25, 2020 —
January 3, 2021

From the Archives
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Systems in Concrete

Los Angeles Public Library map historian Glen Creason, urban planner and historian Eugene Wong Moy, and artist Debra Scacco in dialogue focusing on the relocation of Chinatown following the building of Union Station and the Stack interchange (101 x 110 freeways). As told through maps from the library's collection, the conversation will consider this complex history and impacts
of the relocation on contemporary life.

Presented by
Los Angeles Public Libray
and
Los Angeles Nomadic Division 

From the Archives
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Compass Rose at Oxy Arts

Maps of Northeast Los Angeles were redrawn based on personal stories of long-time residents. The project co-founded NELA Stories, an ongoing storytelling archive housed at Occidental College. 

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