To the Border and Back: Visualizing and Narrating Migration
(April 24-June 15, 2017)
This catalog brings together essays and photographs made by a group of Bryn Mawr students who spent a semester studying migration policies and visiting the U.S.-Mexico border. To reflect the democratic, activist spirit of the essays and images, the catalog has a “pamphlet” feel and utilizes a simple, but bright color palette.
Mirrors and Masks: Reflections and Constructions of the Self
(March 23-June 4, 2017)
As part of a special, two-semester course, a select group of students and curators created an exhibition on the theme of self identity. They looked at the ways artists and their subjects have utitlized masks and mirrors to conceal parts of the self and reveal others. The exhibition design plays on this theme of duality with the use of a multivalent ampersand in the title: when laid sideways it looks like a mask; printed with a reflective foil it functions like a mirror. The 90-page catalog features essays by the curators as well as 34 plates with accompanying essays by the student authors.
Tale of Genji: From Princesses to Pop Culture
(January 25-March 5, 2017)
Curated by a small team of graduate and undergraduate students, this exhibition brings together works of art based on the classic Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji. The curators grouped works by theme and provided brief chapter summaries throughout the exhibition.
Exhibiting Africa: Ways of Seeing, Knowing and Showing
(January 25-March 5, 2017)
Curated by a group of students, this exhibition challenges traditional museum displays of African artifacts by radically re-contextualizing several objects in the Bryn Mawr College collections. The students aimed to overwhelm viewers with information, but not to sacrifice legibility. The look of the show, and its voluminous wall signage prioritizes key themes while also allowing for a deeper dive into the histories of the various objects on display.
Special Collections, Bryn Mawr College
(October 2016)
Designed a graphic identity for Bryn Mawr’s department of Special Collections, which houses art and artifacts, rare books, manuscripts, and archives. Created a series of larger posters to be displayed in the Collections lobby, as a means of introducing the community to the new brand and showcasing some of its impressive holdings.
Collections Learning Lab, Bryn Mawr College
(September 2016)
The Collections Learning Lab at Bryn Mawr is a test environment for the museum studies program, allowing students to try out exhibition ideas and strategies. The identity for the Lab echoes the newly adopted wordmark for Special Collections, which houses the museum studies program.
Graduate Group Poster
(October 2016)
The Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art at Bryn Mawr emphasizes interdisciplinarity and collaboration. The poster represents the diverse interests of its many scholars and students by way of a classical portrait bust that has been rendered in bright, colorful offset.
Kris Graves: The Testament Project
(exhibition September 21-December 18, 2016)
This exhibition features work from artist Kris Graves “Testament Project,” which seeks to represent and explore blackness in contemporary America. The artist’s use of theatrical lighting leads to stunning portraits that begin to complicate what blackness looks like. In designing the show’s signage and advertising material, I looked for ways to reinforce the artist’s message while also keeping his powerful imagery front and center.
Illuminating John Sloan
(exhibition April-June 2015)
This student-curated exhibition at Bryn Mawr College gathered together several early 20th-century prints by the Ashcan School artist John Sloan in order to highlight the artist’s unique ability to portray light in his work. I designed an identity for the show based around a goldenrod triangle, which served both to highlight the dramatic projection of a lone light source in a dark space and to call attention to the line of sight of some of the marginal characters within Sloan’s prints.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Bryn Mawr College
As the Communications Associate for the GSAS, I was charged with collecting and creating the content for a newly conceived recruitment brochure. I worked with representatives of each of the six academic departments that make up the Graduate School as well as the Dean to develop and build consensus around the message and then designed the brochure, all under an extremely compressed time frame.
