Projects
Lize Mogel
Migration Routes of the Wood River Valley, 2007
Printed maps, 18" x 26"

This community mapping was commissioned by the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho. Locally specific, the map shows overlapping patterns of movement and migration over time by Native Americans, mining and railroad industries, sheepherders, domestic workers, second-home owners, and wild animals. It was researched through interviews with and map-surveys by Wood River Valley residents, visitors, workers, advocates, business owners, and students. The finished map was distributed at the Center for the Arts, in schools, and at tourist centers.

The outside face of the map consists of Wood River Valley residents' answers to the questions "where do you live" and "where is home"? The inside face shows historic and contemporary patterns of migration through the physical geography of the valley; where those migrating populations follow each other as the Valley's demographics and economies change; and where they come into conflict with each other (for example when residential development encroaches on seasonal wildlife migration areas.)

Exhibited:
+ Lines in the Earth: Maps, Power, amd the Imagination | 10.5.07-12.14.07 | Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID

Press/Published:
> Courtney Gilbert, Lines in the Earth (exhibition brochure), Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 2007
> Karen Bossick, Sun Valley exhibition considers the power of maps, MagicValley.com, 10.3.07