Exhibit Design
Drip City
Portland Children’s Museum, OR -TBC
In order to design a new water exhibit, the design team worked with an Advisory Board of Portland OR scientists, Parents, Teachers, and community leaders. I had the great pleasure to collaborate with 4th and 5th grade Opal School Students on designs for water tables that featured their studies on watersheds. This projects was awarded both design and implementation grants from IMLS, and is slated to be built in the near future.
(work currently postponed due to Covid-19)
Sprout Spot
Portland Children’s Museum, OR - 2019
This exhibit space focuses on 0-3 year olds and their caregivers, and was much needed space in our community. As part of the design process we consulted with a community Advisory Board and collaborated on design with children age 4-6 enrolled in Opal Beginning School. Use of reclaimed and natural materials was high priority in the design for this project, and our team was able to source many reclaimed materials from The Rebuilding Center.
Renderings
The Completed Sprout Spot Exhibit
Ice Cave
Portland Children’s Museum, OR -
2018
Inspired by the now melted Sandy Glacier ice caves on Mt. Hood, this exhibit is meant to be an area to explore dramatic play and story telling with an emphases on reflection and light.
Renderings, Models, and Fabrication
The Completed Ice Cave Exhibit
Twilight Trail
Exhibit Refresh
Portland Children’s Museum, OR -
2018
As part of the Portland Children’s Museum exhibit department, I helped to rework a favorite exhibit by designing and helping to build a campsite, interactive trees from reclaimed materials, sensory waterfall, and changing the overall layout to improve guest traffic through the space.
Frontier
Basement Gallery, Oakland CA - 2016
Frontier is an art installation that presents a vision of exploration and conquest during the Age of Imperialism in the Americas. The installation takes the form of an immersive panoramic diorama built out of beeswax and lit with heat lamps that melt the installation down over time. Frontier intends to both build and destroy historical notions of the past by creating a museum quality diorama and literally allowing it to melt away. In Frontier, my work searches for the elusive and misguided promise of truly untouched lands and considers this idea from the perspective of naturalists, who are themselves, invaders.
SketchUp Models and Making of
Tidal Species-Cabinet of Curiosity
Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito CA 2012
For a summer internship at BADM I designed this interactive Cabinet of Curiosity exhibit where the museum's 1-6 year old target audience could inspect local specimens up close. Acrylic magnifiers slide along a wave pattern of clear acrylic sheets that sandwich local tidal species. Younger visitors would be mostly engaged in the moving parts, while the 3-6 year old would be interested in the patterns and colors made visible from the magnification. The clear acrylic allows the dried specimens to be seen from both sides.
Sketch Up Models
The Completed Tidal Species Exhibit
The Marcus Kelli Collection
Shown at Basement Gallery 2012, Bedford Gallery 2012, Faultline Studios 2013, Aggregate Space 2014, Worth Ryder Gallery at UC Berkeley 2015, Boy's Fort PDX 2016
The Marcus Kelli Collection is a fictional archive of natural history specimens and artifacts from the created life of the naturalist, Marcus Kelli. The Collection displays specimens and Kelli’s personal effects in the format of an interactive museum, providing a tension between fact and fiction. I step into this imagined world as curator and head restoration artist of the Marcus Kelli Archive and Museum. Receptions become performances as I provide expert information on the collection and guests are invited to interact with elements inside the exhibit.
Sketch Up Models
Completed Field Tent Exhibit
Interactive Field Desk
