My Role:
My Role within our Exhibits team was to lead the design direction. Starting from the original set of banners that travelled throughout North Carolina, Through our permanent Race Exhibit that has had two versions. From Design, to production and installation, I provided a clear plan and framework to complete this project from beginning to end.
Exhibit Design – Transforming an existing hallway, into an exhibit space.
Graphic Design – Graphic layout and general design from banner form to the final installation on the 4th floor of NCMNS.
Transformation:
Exhibit-space Design
Using color and modifying the shape of the hallway helps create the feeling of walking in a different space than the rest of the floor that this exhibit is on.
English and Spanish
This bilingual exhbit features large vertical text in English and Spanish that can be seen as you walk through the hallway on both sides of the columns.
Graphics
Main Messages
Race and human biological variation are separate concepts. The idea of race is about culture, not biology.
We need to understand when and why the idea of race was invented to make progress towards undoing it.
Race and racism are embedded in our everyday lives.
Process
RACE: Are We So Different? originally developed in 2007 by the American Anthropological Association (AAA),
is the first exhibit of its kind to bring together information from 27 different academic disciplines to study race and how
it impacts people’s lives. This project includes work from geneticists, to social scientists, to historians, to medical and law experts.
The exhibit focuses on providing a variety of learning experiences for people of all ages and backgrounds.
Banners
Check out the Banners in a digital form at
https://talkaboutrace.org/banners/
along with the website!
Race banners in library location.
banners reveal and NCMNS