Manet: A Model Family
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA

Opened in October 2024 , Manet: A Modern Family is the first exhibition to explore Manet through the lens of the complex familial relationships between and amongst the artist and his sitters, shedding new light on the life and masterpieces of the “father of modernism.” The exhibit explores how despite complexities between relatives, the Manet family lived happily.

Completed in partnership with R. Kurt Weidman

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Tony Sarg: Genius at Play
Nantucket Historical Association
Nantucket, MA

Opened in May 2024. Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in partnership with the Nantucket Historical Association, Tony Sarg: Genius at Play is the first comprehensive exhibition exploring the life, art, and adventures of Tony Sarg (1880-1942).

Completed in partnership with R. Kurt Weidman

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Inventing Isabella
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA

Isabella Stewart Gardner used art, fashion, and photography to cultivate her image. Though her name is on the Museum she founded, Isabella remains an enigmatic figure. As someone who often defied the expectations of her gender and class, many stories, scandals, and myths surrounded her during her lifetime and still do today.

Inventing Isabella unites many pictures of Isabella—from formal oil paintings to informal drawings and personal and press photographs—that Isabella chose to preserve. Combined with select examples of her clothing and jewelry, we see how Isabella fashioned herself and entered long and intricate collaborations with artists to craft her public image.

In conjunction with Inventing Isabella, the Museum will also showcase the work of two contemporary artists, Fabiola Jean-Louis: Rewriting History and Carla Fernández: Tradition is not Static.

Completed in partnership with R. Kurt Weidman

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Summer on Nantucket: A History of the Island Resort
Nantucket Historical Association
Nantucket, MA

Opened in May 2023, this exhibition tells the story of Nantucket as a summer destination, from the opening of the first tourist hotels in the 1840s to the multi-billion-dollar real-estate, construction, and rental economy of today.

The exhibit begins with “Impressions of Summer,” a feast of paintings, trade signs, souvenirs, and other items capturing the flavor of Nantucket in high season. “The Resort Economy” traces the island’s transition from a whaling port to a vacation spot. “Must See, Must Do” explores beach and water recreation, entertainment and dining, and changing tourist activities across more than a century. “Where to Stay?” demonstrates how summer-home options have changed as more of the island has been developed. “Who’s Here?” features new acquisitions from the NHA’s costume and textile collections showing island summer fashions.

“It’s Not All Roses” recognizes the hard work seasonal employees and year-round residents put into making summer happen for everyone and explores some of the downsides to the island’s popularity and success: crowding, traffic, housing insecurity, and economic inequality. The exhibit concludes with “Winter,” a look at the continuation of island life after the crowds depart.

Completed in partnership with R. Kurt Weidman

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Laliberté Life! An Exhibit Honoring the Art of Norman Laliberté
Nahant Historical Society
Nahant, MA

Norman Laliberté's paintings, totems, and banners have been exhibited at more than 300 one-man shows. His sculptures and banners are part of major corporations and public art installations throughout the US and Canada. Norman Laliberté was awarded a major commission from the Vatican to design 88 banners for their Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, which brought him fame and millions of views of the tapestries.

Completed in partnership with R. Kurt Weidman

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Impassioned Destruction: Politics, Vandalism, and the Boston Tea Party
Revolutionary Spaces
Old State House, Boston, MA

The Boston Tea Party was not the first instance of property destruction in what would become the United States, and it certainly was not the last. Explore how Americans have used vandalism as a tool of protest throughout the centuries in Impassioned Destruction: Politics, Vandalism, and the Boston Tea Party.

Opened in July 2023, this new exhibit invites visitors to consider other acts of property destruction in the context of the Tea Party. When, if ever, do you believe it is justified to destroy property in the name of a cause?

Completed in partnership with Spokeshave Design

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Graphic design

Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial
Boston Public Library
Boston MA

In April 2013, two bombs went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Almost immediately a makeshift memorial began to take shape. People from across the globe left flowers, posters, notes, t-shirts, tokens of all shapes and sizes, and especially their running shoes. Each of the objects left at the memorial was a message of love and support for grieving families and a grieving city. The objects symbolized the desire to help, comfort, and connect when confronted with great tragedy.

To mark the one-year anniversary, a selection of items from the memorial collection were displayed at the Boston Public Library for five weeks. During that time, 51,777 visitors came to see the exhibit.

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Photographs ©2014 Christian Phillips

From Dawn to Dusk: Life in the Forbidden City
Hong Kong Palace Museum
Hong Kong, China

Follow in the footsteps of the emperors and empresses of the Forbidden City and experience court life in the eighteenth century. Significant events from morning to bedtime and over 300 sumptuous treasures from the Palace Museum represent key moments in their busy and well-regulated lives. These moments bring to life the colour, texture, joy, and sorrow of life inside the Forbidden City.

Completed in partnership with Museum Design Associates

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Graphic design

Wellesley College Science Center
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA

Opened in October 2022, a series of object-rich exhibits in the college’s newly renovated and expanded Science Center highlights students, faculty, and alumnae who have established and transformed many different fields within the sciences. The concept and execution complement the larger project’s foundational aspirations: to create the ideal environment for 21st-century science teaching, learning, and research, and to amplify Wellesley’s position at the forefront of undergraduate science education and research.

Completed in partnership with Museum Design Associates, R. Kurt Weidman, and Sarah P. Morris

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Living Landmarks
Vineyard Trust
Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

The Vineyard Trust Heritage Center opened in The Carnegie in June 2018 with the “Living Landmarks” permanent exhibition galleries, a visitor center, and a gift shop as a place for visitors to learn about the island’s past, present, and future. 

The Trust preserves, manages, and interprets 25 historic properties and buildings across the island that are integral to the island’s culture, history, and sense of community. Their preservation and creative reuse are important in understanding Martha’s Vineyard’s heritage as a maritime center, religious destination, and vacation hotspot. 

Completed in partnership with Brent Johnson Design, ObjectIDEA, RLMG, and Hadley Exhibits 

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Pretty Powerful: 100 Years of Voting and Style
Worcester Historical Museum
Worcester, MA

Opened in October 2021, 171 years after the first National Women Right’s Convention was held in Worcester, "Pretty Powerful: 100 Years of Voting & Style" examines the history of women in Worcester through the lens of fashion over the last century.

Fashion is inextricably linked with women’s history, having been used to make a political or social statement from the early days of the suffragette movement to the 1960s counter-culture. Garments on display are divided into three categories—work, style, and politics—but the lines between them are blurred.

Completed in partnership with Kurt Weidman

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Whole New Ballgame
The National Baseball Hall of Fame
Cooperstown, NY

“Whole New Ballgame” opened in November 2015 as the newest permanent exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The exhibit takes the visitor through the history of baseball from the 1970s to the present, with particular emphasis on the experience of fans: in the stands, watching on television, on the field, or playing fantasy baseball.

Completed in partnership with ObjectIDEA

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Graphic design concept through to final production

Photographs courtesy of The National Baseball Hall of Fame

Seaport Discovery: Exploring Our Waters With Eric Carle
South Street Seaport Museum
New York, NY

The new discovery room of maritime-themed art by Eric Carle, beloved creator of picture books for young children, opened in 2022. “Seaport Discovery: Exploring Our Waters with Eric Carle” is designed specifically for children aged 2–7 and their adults.

Huge immersive murals bring families into Carle’s book A House for Hermit Crab and the cargo-ship adventures of 10 Little Rubber Ducks. Visitors enjoy activities like meeting a live hermit crab, driving ferries on a giant play table, and learning about cargo ships through the eyes of a rubber duck—all while exploring Carle’s use of color and pattern.

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Graphic design and graphic production

Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Boston, MA

Opened by President Barack Obama in March 2015, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate is a non-profit educational institution to educate the public, students, teachers, new senators, and Senate staff about the role and importance of the United States Senate. 

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White on White: Churches of Rural New England
Historic New England
BSA Space, Boston, MA

White on White: Churches of Rural New England opened in November 2015 at the Boston Society of Architects' BSA Space. This exhibition of acclaimed architectural photographer Steve Rosenthal ran through January 2016.

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Photographs courtesy of Steve Rosenthal

New England Ski Museum
North Conway, NH 

Opened in February 2018, the New England Ski Museum’s Eastern Slope Branch is preserving the future of skiing’s past. The exhibit’s overarching focus is on how New England’s ski culture has retained its unique character and appeal over the years. The 4,400 square foot building also includes equipment and archives storage, a library, and a museum store.

Completed in partnership with The Square Office, ObjectIDEA, and Trivium Interactive

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Stove by a Whale: 20 Men, 3 Boats, 96 Days
Nantucket Historical Association
Nantucket, MA

Opened in May 2015, “Stove by a Whale: 20 Men, 3 Boats, 96 Days” is an exhibition about the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a sperm whale in 1820. The 20 crewmen survived the whale but were forced to fend for themselves in the vast Pacific Ocean with just three whaleboats and limited supplies.

The exhibit features the only surviving artifacts, a life-sized whaleboat that visitors can board and sit in, and character cards portraying Essex crew members. Props from director Ron Howard’s film “In the Heart of the Sea,” which was based on Nat Philbrick’s National Book Award-winning work of the same name, are on loan from Warner Brothers.

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Photography by Jeff Allen, courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association

Nantucket Historical Association
Nantucket, MA

Opened in June 2018, Nantucketers and Their Boats is the summer’s major exhibition in the McCausland Gallery at the Whaling Museum. With more than 100 objects on display, the exhibit features stories from year-round and seasonal residents and explores the many ways islanders rely on water for work, recreation, and their connection to the broader world. The centerpiece is a 1925 racing catboat.

Completed in partnership with Neal Mayer Design 

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Out of the Box: Unpacking Nantucket Stories
Nantucket Historical Association
Nantucket, MA

Opened in May 2017, Out of the Box: Unpacking Nantucket Stories is the latest exhibit in the McCausland Gallery at the Nantucket Whaling Museum. This exhibit was conceived to be open for two years and features more than 80 artifacts that have rarely, if ever, been on display before.

Completed in partnership with Neal Mayer Design and ObjectIDEA

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Mapping Marblehead: From Founding to Freedom
Marblehead Historic Commission
Old Town House, Marblehead, MA

Opened in June 2019, “Mapping Marblehead: From Founding to Freedom” was the first of three temporary installations featuring the history of the town and its maps. Each exhibit, focusing on successive centuries, is to be presented one year apart.

The first installation featured Marblehead’s first 200 years, as told on four, 8-foot display towers as well as a large printed floor graphic based on a 1795 map of the town. A highly popular engagement piece was a life-size rendering of the painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” by Emanuel Leutze, which allowed visitors to be photographed in the boat with General George Washington and his crew of Marbleheaders.

Digital interactives allowed visitors to inspect old maps overlaying modern maps, providing a then-and-now comparison of old Marblehead with the present-day town.

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Mapping Marblehead: The Nineteenth Century
Marblehead Historic Commission
Old Town House, Marblehead, MA

Opened in July 2021, “Mapping Marblehead: The Nineteenth Century” was the second of three temporary installations featuring the history of the town and its maps. The exhibit showcased the history of Marblehead as it transformed itself from a fishing village to an industrial center for shoemaking and then to a center for yachting and tourism.

The exhibit included interpretive panels, artifacts, and interactive maps illustrating Marblehead’s growth and expansion. It also offered visitors the chance to step into a life-size representation of a nineteenth-century view of Marblehead Harbor from Crocker Park, for a delightful photo opportunity.

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Mapping Marblehead: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Marblehead Historic Commission
Old Town House, Marblehead, MA

Opened in July 2022, “Mapping Marblehead: The Twentieth Century and Beyond” was the third of three temporary installations featuring the history of the town and its maps. The exhibit included interpretive panels, artifacts, and interactive maps illustrating Marblehead’s growth and expansion. Marblehead entered the twentieth century poor but charmingly situated, with declining industry. It exited wealthy and outwardly focused, with a harbor full of recreational boats. Forever tied to the sea, Marblehead’s location and history continue to define it.

In keeping with the two prior installations, the final story was told using four, 8-foot display towers as well as a large printed floor graphic. Digital interactives allowed visitors to inspect old maps overlaying modern maps, providing a then-and-now comparison of old Marblehead with the present-day town.

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Making it on Main Street
Historic Northampton
Northampton, MA

The history of Main Street is more than a changing parade of stores. Opened in June 2019, “Making it on Main Street” tells the story of the people who lived, worked, played, and celebrated on Main Street—how they earned a living, faced the challenges of changing times, treated their neighbors and outsiders, advocated for justice, and shaped the Main Street we walk today. 

The newly designed exhibition space displays a chronology in glass cases, with background murals drawn from descriptions of the historical landscape, prints, and photographs drawn by local artist Nancy Haver. 

Completed in partnership with The Square Office

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Water Has a Memory: Preserving Strawbery Banke & Portsmouth from Sea Level Rise
Strawbery Banke Museum
Portsmouth, NH

Strawbery Banke Museum and its historic houses—some of Portsmouth’s most valuable and irreplaceable heritage—are being damaged by the impact of sea level rise. While working on a strategy to preserve the historic homes, the Museum asks visitors to think about what’s to come as the climate warms with the “Water Has a Memory: Preserving Strawbery Banke & Portsmouth from Sea Level Rise” exhibit.

Opened in August 2021, the exhibit welcomed more than 16,000 visitors during the 2021 Historic House season.

Completed in partnership with Trivium Interactive

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Change Over Time: Natural Resources and the Innovations of American Horticulture
Strawbery Banke Museum
Portsmouth, NH

Opened in Spring 2019, Strawbery Banke Museum’s Horticulture Learning Center is designed as a teaching space for the Historic Landscape Department. Visitors can experience the museum’s heirloom gardens and plants with a smell table, microscope investigations, and digital interactive. They can distill essential oils, harvest and save heirloom seeds, and make wreaths.

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America on the Move
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC

America on the Move is located in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. This 26,000 sq ft exhibit explores the role of transportation in American history from pre-1870s to present day. 

All design work was completed while working for Museum Design Associates

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Graphic design and graphic production

1730 Conant House
Falmouth Historical Society
Falmouth, MA

Opened in June 2017, the Conant House at Museums on the Green was built in 1730 and restored in 2016. This exhibit features previously unseen artifacts from the Falmouth Historical Society and highlights the history of the Conant House through the stories of the people who lived and worked there.

Completed in partnership with The Square Office

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Nantucket Historical Association
Nantucket, MA

The Nantucket Historical Association’s Museum Center re-opened its doors to the public in 2005 with 28,000 square feet of new exhibition space.

All design work was completed while working for Amaze Design

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Graphic design and production

300th Anniversary Exhibit
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church
Marblehead and Salem, MA

To commemorate St. Michael's 300th anniversary, a year of celebration was planned that included this traveling exhibition. The tall fabric towers and several artifacts were on display at The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem as well as select sites in Marblehead.

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Seas, Lakes & Bay: The Naval War of 1812
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD

Opened in 2013 in Mahan Hall at the Naval Academy, this new exhibit features hundreds of objects from the Naval Academy Museum collection and several artifacts and pieces of art on loan from the collection of Mr. William Koch. It was part of the “Seas, Lakes & Bay: The Naval War of 1812” walking tour celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Annapolis War of 1812. 

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Graphic design and production

National Museum of Australia
Acton Peninsula, Canberra, Australia

Opened by the Queen in 2001, The National Museum of Australia features over 66,000 sq ft of exhibitions. The main goal of the exhibition program was to integrate the stories of Australia’s environment, its indigenous and settler peoples, and various dimensions of national identity.

All design work was completed while working for Amaze Design

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Graphic design and graphic production

Historic New England, various exhibits
Boston, MA

Founded in 1910 to preserve and present the cultural and architectural heritage of New England, Historic New England is the oldest and largest regional heritage organization within the United States. Samples shown here are from three different exhibits: Drawing Toward Home, Centennial Acquisitions, and White on White.

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Graphic design and production

The National Museum of the Marine Corps
Quantico, VA

The National Museum of the Marine Corps is a lasting tribute to United States Marines—past, present, and future. This 120,000 sq ft museum is located adjacent to Marine Corps Base in Quantico.

All design work was completed while working for Christopher Chadbourne and Associates

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Graphic design and graphic production

Old Faithful Visitor Education Center
National Park Service
Yellowstone National Park, WY

The new visitor center at Old Faithful opened in 2010 with the aim of helping visitors understand and enjoy Yellowstone. It was acclaimed for setting new National Park Service standards for accessibility and interpretation of complex scientific information to the public. 

All design work was completed while working for Christopher Chadbourne & Associates

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Graphic production

Massachusetts Department of Culture & Recreation
Fall River, MA

Located in southeast Massachusetts, this 8.5-acre park runs along the shore of the Taunton River (Mt. Hope Bay). The visitor center is ideally located, with spectacular views overlooking the river. The new interpretation inside the visitor center tells the story of the river and the history of the people in Fall River as well as orientating visitors to the Fall River Heritage State Park and to the surrounding DCR properties.

All design work was completed while working for Content Design Collaborative

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Graphic design and production