NARROWSBURG, NY — It’s been almost two years and a lot of work, but the map is ready—and it’s for sale.

This is the Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association (SCVA) map of Sullivan County, created by the one-and-only Cochecton artist Rocky Pinciotti and produced by the SCVA.

This isn’t your standard road map (those might be obsolete in the age of GPS). This is map as art, a map that catches the personality of Sullivan County. It highlights the places to visit and the places to shop. 

You’ll find the Basha Kill and Beech Mountain, the Delaware River and the Neversink Reservoir. 

And the members of the SCVA are there, resorts and restaurants, musical venues big and small, places to shop and places to see. 

The detail—and there’s so much of it—evokes favorite kids’ books, but offers endless entertainment for the grownups too. 

Pinciotti is not a cartographer, but “always loved maps and globes,” he said in an email. He even has a collection. 

Combine that with an artist’s training. “Like any kid, I always loved drawing,” he wrote. Pinciotti studied printmaking in college; worked in graphics, video art and mixed media. 

He’s familiar locally not just because of his website (https://www.rockypinciotti.com/) but because he was the gallery director at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) for 16 years, and taught fine art and graphics at SUNY Sullivan.

“I retired and started drawing again,” he wrote.

His love of maps came to the fore. There was the Narrowsburg map for the DVAA’s Big Eddy Film Festival and a Roscoe town map. 

The SCVA map is available for sale at Catskill Curated at the Narrowsburg Union; the cost is $10.

In addition, Catskills Curated will host a meet-the-artist and exclusive poster-signing event on from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, December 17 at 7 Erie Ave., Suite 105. 

That’s your chance to buy a map—it’s a unique gift—meet Pinciotti, and learn more about the work and thoughts that went into it.

“It’s an event that promises an immersive experience in the world of art and the captivating Catskills landscape,” said Rebecca Crance from the Narrowsburg Union.

Learn more on Facebook at Narrowsburg Union.