Matt Dooley is a cartographer, artist, and yoga teacher 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 has practiced Buddhism since 2009, and has extensive experience leading mindfulness meditation. He began his yoga journey in 2022, after witnessing the power of yoga at a meditation retreat in rural Wisconsin. He immediately fell in love, and after two years of intensive practice, he began and completed yoga teacher training at Studio One Yoga in Stillwater, Minnesota.
Matt lives in River Falls, Wisconsin, with his dog Sally and works as a professor of Geography & GIS at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
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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