I help you move from an idea to an engaging, amazing exhibit.
What’s the Big Idea?
Ready to start developing a new exhibit?
Never made an exhibit and don’t know where to start?
Can’t figure out what to do with collections?
What is your exhibit even about?
Exhibit Coach brings 15 years of exhibit leadership—with a strong dose of empathy and a sense of play—to jumpstart your process and get you moving towards amazing, meaningful, inclusive exhibit experiences.
Services
Exhibit development is how museums tell stories. I use my fresh vision and empathetic historian superpowers of strategy, synthesis, and communication to catalyze your storytelling. My practice centers historical truth and racial equity. I provide visitor-centered:
Exhibit Brainstorming, Scoping, Planning, and Content Development
Exhibit Prototyping and Evaluation
Interpretive Planning
Interpretive Writing and Editing
Exhibit and Wayfinding Assessments
Organizational Transitions and Transformations
Team and Individual Coaching and Workshops
Selected Exhibit Projects
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States of Incarceration
Project director and editor for the Michigan History Center’s installation of this travelling exhibit. I led MHC’s team to develop an additional 1500 sq. ft. of stories on incarceration in Michigan.
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Pacific Worlds
Lead curator for this 8,000 sq. ft. exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California developed in collaboration with a community taskforce. Winner of the American Alliance of Museums Excellence in Exhibitions Award.
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Higgins Lake Nursery Trail
Project director and editor for waysides interpreting the history of the nursery that jumpstarted Michigan’s reforestation.
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Prototyping Parlor
Converted an closed-off space at the Michigan History Museum into an interactive room where staff and visitors can lounge and prototype exhibit elements together.
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Sent Away
Curator for 300 sq. ft. new permanent exhibit on Japanese American incarceration in the Oakland Museum of California’s History Gallery.
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Secret Lives of Michigan Objects
Project director and editor for this 3000 sq. ft. exhibit at the Michigan History Museum taking a fun look at museum collections.