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Experience Jerry’s Map at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport

The permanent installation of Jerry's Map at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, MI is now open to experience in person! 

The airport’s car rental guests (and even those driving by) will experience 2,441 panels of the map, spanning four floors! The installation is outside of the security checkpoint, so all are welcome to enjoy the work, without the need to purchase an airline ticket.

Visit the airport and you can view it up close! Directions and more photos are on the Exhibitions page.

And don’t miss the new video on the airport project at https://youtu.be/bpN7DvgD-l8.

 

People Make Games Documentary

The People Make Games documentary about my Map and installation at the Strongheart Center in Peshawbestown, Michigan is now available at this link!

We are in awe of how gracious, insightful, and engaging their entire team was as they worked with us to install Jerry’s Map and for their sensitive telling of Jerry’s story. Thank you Quinns, Chris, Anni and Alex!

Thank you to everyone who has watched it already (580k as of writing this!) and for the countless messages and affirmations that you have shared with us. Words cannot adequately express the depth of feeling that we are adrift in at the moment. Much gratitude!

We owe a huge thank you to the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, the Strongheart Center team and especially Leanne (Tana) Alber for being such great hosts for this project. Special thank you’s to Steve Scales for connecting us with the Strongheart community and to Aaron King for bringing Jerry’s Map onto the radar of PMG in the first place. An enormous amount of gratitude to every volunteer and friend that helped us install Jerry’s Map for this monumental occasion.

 

Ongoing: 120 Panels of Jerry's Map are on display at the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) through October 18th

The panels currently on display are from the GRAM's permanent collection, but if all goes to plan, the panels will be swapped out mid-exhibition to show the current iterations of these panels to emphasize the ongoing evolution of the Map. Find out more about the exhibit and related programming via the GRAM's website.