Matt Dooley is a cartographer and artist living in River Falls, Wisconsin. His work intersects the boundary of art and cartography, leveraging non-traditional media such as clay and gunpowder to create maps.
In 1997, Matt earned a BA in Anthropology from the University of Nebraska and pursued a career in field archaeology throughout the Great Plains and American West. Spurred by an interest in field mapping, he returned to Nebraska and earned his MA and Ph.D. in Geography.
From 2013 to 2015, Matt studied ceramics at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls under the mentorship of Rhonda Willers and Randy Johnston, and continues making ceramic vessels that reference ancient pottery traditions in Asia and the Americas.
Matt works as a professor of Geography & GIS at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, where he teaches courses in cartography, GIS, and spatial justice.
Sample Publication
The Tangible Map Exhibit, with Caroline Rose and Jake Coolidge. In Cartographic Perspectives. Serialized for 2015, published January 2017.
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