Americans today are still grappling with much unfinished business that has its roots in the European settlement of this continent. In collaboration with Michelle Moon, I am currently leading a multi-year interpretive planning effort at Historic Huguenot Street that attends to this unfinished business.
In 2022 The Frick Pittsburgh invited Michelle Moon and me to lead an interpretive planning effort to reimagine the visitor experience for Clayton, the Frick Pittsburgh’s Gilded Age Mansion. The result was award-winning.
Critical thinking on labor, industry, and capitalism at the Frick Pittsburgh
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Social science research shows that lifelong curiosity drives a raft of positive outcomes that we all seek as human beings: employment success, physical and mental well-being, creativity, and community engagement. How can museums increase curiosity in visitors of all ages?
Cultivating lifelong curiosity with History Nebraska
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Developing a new educational vision for Montreal’s Musée McCord
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This new, 4,600-square-foot museum in development in Augusta, ME, is dedicated to building greater knowledge about, participation in, and stewardship of the First Amendment, which protects our freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition.
Bringing Maine’s First Amendment Museum to life
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Building a creative exhibition infrastructure for Mystic Seaport
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Creative adaptation at the 1867 DeLong House in Glen Falls, NY
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Leading the museum community in healing after the Boston Marathon Bombing
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Visitor Comments:
“A great place for healing”
“Thank you for holding us with care.”
“Thank you for this closure. I truly needed it.”
“This is my one outlet for my grief.”
“I came thinking of myself and left thinking of you.”
“I’ve felt so lost—now because of this I am found.”
