Smithsonian National Museum of American History
This exhibit celebrates the ways girls and young women have shaped the political, economic, and cultural life of our nation. Girls’ stories are our stories, and girlhood provides new ways of understanding American history and ourselves.
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Larger-than-life custom murals announce each of the five distinct exhibit zones, News and Politics, Fashion, Wellness, Work, and Education, visually mirroring a storefront billboard. The modular design fluidly adapts to a range of possible site conditions since this exhibit will be traveling nationwide.
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My stylized handwriting represents girls telling their own story in "their own” writing through 120+ curatorial notes throughout the exhibit. The intent was to break the fourth wall and speak candidly about the diversity of girls’ experiences at the intersections of gender, race, and class.
"Exhibit graphics and the exhibit voice, based on how girls talk and are talked to, is playful and engaging and...are written in such a way that they come from a girl's voice."
—2020/2021 Smithsonian Excellence in Exhibitions Award, Judges Comments
—2020/2021 Smithsonian Excellence in Exhibitions Award, Judges Comments
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Collages inspired by girls’ self published zines draw visitors' eyes to important details while bringing a pop & personalized touch to every individual exhibit zone.
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An exhibition prospectus reformats the exhibit into a concise, visually appealing design brochure, intentionally created for curators/librarians as part of a traveling exhibit for Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
Graphic Designer, from concept to completion. Directed and coordinated the initial ideation, early sketches and handwritten explorations. Designed under Creative Directors Nina Reck & Jeff Howard, with Exhibit Designer Melissa Van Ostenbridge and Graphic Designer Avery Parker. Early concept designed by Teresa Carné Torrent.
Final illustrations created by Artist Krystal Quiles.
2020/2021 Smithsonian Excellence in Exhibitions Award
Silver Graphis Award 2021
Photography by Judy Davis.
