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MUSEUM EXHIBITS
Mount Clare: All Who Lived and Worked Here
Venue:
Mount Clare House and Museum, Carroll Park, Baltimore, MD
Challenge:
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To reinterpret the museum to include the contributions of workers - including enslaved people, transported convicts, and indentured servants – in helping the Carroll Family build their wealth
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To find objects and documentation from unpaid and hired workers when very little evidence remains
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To maximize visibility of the museum’s existing collection of 18th century decorative arts while ensuring its security
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To locate descendants of enslaved people at Mount Clare
Services:
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Exhibit Development and Writing
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Collection Research and Development
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Graphic Research and Rights Negotiation
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Project Management
Auditing the Auditors: Creating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Venue:
Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society
Challenge:
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To capture and distill the founding and first decade of an international financial regulator
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To help them form a founding collection including photographs, articles, and objects
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To help negotiate image rights
Services:
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Exhibit Development and Writing
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Collection Research and Development
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Graphic Research and Rights Negotiation
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Oral Histories
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Project Management
Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II
Venue:
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Challenge:
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To show the human cost of Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, that forced more than 120,000 citizens and residents of Japanese descent living on the West Coast to abandon their homes, businesses, and belongings to move into incarceration camps in remote deserts and swamps during WW II
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To cover more than 150 years of history in a 1,000 square-foot gallery space
Services:
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Exhibit Development and Writing
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Graphic Research and Rights Negotiation
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Project Management
Sweet & Sour: Chinese Food from Chinatown to Main Street
Venue:
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit
(Not Fabricated)
Challenge:
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To tell the history of Chinese immigration to the United States, including the period of exclusion, by exploring the dissemination, modification, and acceptance of Chinese American food
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To showcase how purveyors of Chinese food in America modified recipes to accommodate local ingredients and tastes and created a uniquely American cuisine
Services:
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Exhibit Development and Writing
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Graphic Research and Rights Negotiation
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Project Management
Executive Order 9066 Interactive Exhibit Kiosk
Venue:
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Challenge:
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To tell more in-depth stories about the people of Japanese ancestry who were imprisoned in American camps during World War I
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To give greater detail about the prison camp
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To enable museum goers to interact with the collection on a more personal level
Services:
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Exhibit Development and Writing
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Research
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Graphic Research and Rights Negotiation
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Project Management
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