Volume 13, Issue 1 (2020) Cartographic Infrastructures: Mapping and the Graphic Arts in the Americas

Introduction

Greetings and welcome to Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, volume 13. The editorial committee released this issue cognizant that the lives of our readers, contributors, and the lives of everyone in their respective communities, continue to be impacted by the compounded events related to Covid-19; state-sanctioned and extrajudicial violence against Black and Indigenous people; protracted unemployment, and exploitation of graduate student labor. These untenable conditions resulted in new and renewed calls for action, mutual aid, and unionization. This issue began to take shape a year ago prior to the onset of pandemic conditions. In continuing with the publication, we hope that it contributes to the conversation regarding the ways artists, critics, and historians work to create, recreate, or resist capitalist, colonialist, and racist infrastructures.