Here's a link to the French version of my interview with David Caillon of Arte: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/105628-041-A/gymnastique ..read more

  Here's a copy of the letter I have been sending to purchasers of Map panels: Notes on Jerry's Map: September 6, 2022 Thanks very much for buying this panel of Jerry's Map! I depend on these sales to be small reaffirmations of the creative path I have been on all my adult life. Much of what you receive when you buy an “original” is the inkjet copy of the previous iteration of that panel with varying amounts of fresh work- either in paint or collage- superimposed on the copy. I have always attempted to print in archival ink, but I have noticed that old panels are sometimes faded. So, p ..read more

  You probably know by now that Jerry's Map was born in a front office of the Hoover Ball Bearing Company on South State Road in Ann Arbor in August, 1963. By the time I put it away in 1983, never thinking that I would take it up again, it had grown to about 800 panels. The total number of panels, at latest count, was 3792.  The sale of retired, archived original panels continues, and, to date, we have sold 860 of them. We continue, on Etsy and eBay, to find permanent homes for the remaining 1500 which are currently available for sale.  The newest change in technique in the ex ..read more

  Since I resumed selling on eBay and Etsy last December I have sold 615 original Map panels. I am thrilled! In a couple of weeks I will turn 79, and, while I am in pretty good health, I realize that I will be slowing down and that, one day, I will no longer be able to work on this project. Since I don't want my four kids to be saddled with disposing of the thousands of panels, I am anxious to do what I can to make sure that as many panels as possible will have found homes with poeple who care for them. My ultimate dream is that one day, long after I am gone, these thousands of panels ..read more

  If you have been following the Map listings on eBay you may be wondering how we choose the panels to list there. You may already know that when changes are made to a panel they are made on an inkjet copy and not on the original. Each set of changes is referred to as a "generation" of that panel. "Generation" might also be called an iteration. The retired panels are used to make up sets of the Map. Currently there are six sets, three of which are complete. The first set is the Studio Set, the one being actively worked on by me. The next set, Exhibition Set 1, or Ex 1, was the firs ..read more

If you've been following me on Twitter or Instagram you know that I have been posting those 16-panel composite sheets. I started at the top of the Map and am working down in bands from left (West) to right (East). The goofy looking post above was from today and represents a floater, an outlier, at the far northeast corner of the Map. It dates back to a period when I was adding sheets that were not contiguous to existing sheets. In further news: my wife has been making cloth face masks, and we have been distributing them to friends and relatives. If you would like one email me at biggouda@aol ..read more

I was in Philadelphia last weekend and placed 6 or 8 of my Map "tiles" on ledges along South Street. If you find one let me know! And if you want to be on my free Map postcard mailing list send your address to gretzingermap@gmail.com. We have now made almost 10,000 (9498) of these little 2 by 2 1/2 inch gems. I give them away at shows and place them on window ledges, weather permitting, when I travel. Go find some! I'll let you know where they are. And, while you wait to go looking, you can get Jerry's Map prints and cards on Etsy and eBay. We appreciate your patronage! Thanks ..read more

About fifteen years ago I started making these little one-quarter scale "tiles" of Map panels. Each one was two inches wide and two-and-a-half inches high. Over the years I made over 9000 of them! I placed them on ledges in cities where I was having a show. Or I placed them around the town where I lived. A few people found them and collected them. I sold sets of them on eBay. I gave them to friends and new acquaintances. Now I am about to put them back into circulation. And I am going to make a game of them. Here's how it will work: anyone finding two contiguous tiles will win a gift of an ..read more

For the past four or five years, since I started advancing into my seventies, I have been searching for safe homes for my monster art project. Never one to play by the prevailing rules, I started by sending groups of twenty contiguous panels (like the ones pictured above) to randomly selected museums throughout the world. The results were, at best, spotty. The majority of the institutions didn't even acknowledge receipt of the gift.  A couple sent rejection letters but never returned the panels. A noble few of them returned the panels with a nice letter. One accepted the panels outright and t ..read more

This last weekend I had the opportunity to share my Map building at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago. On Saturday, a group of 30 people created their own map panels and had the chance to see all of their work together on the exhibit wall. This workshop was part of my ongoing show at Intuit, running from August 15 till January, 2020.  The exhibit consists of one-third of the entire Map and 12 single panels to display the evolution and detail. Thank you to the people who came out to support me, and if you get the chance, come see this massive installation of the ..read more