ProductionUnit Unit Exhibits Exhibits– –Design Design– –Media Media Production PUBLICATIONS AND GRAPHIC DESIGN PRODUCTS
With Senior Collections Manager Angela Linn, designed four interpretive panels for the Kolmakofski Block House. With Curator of Fine Arts Mareca Guthrie, designed the folio to accompany the Art In The Making installation. With Education & Public Programs Manager Jennifer Arseneau, developed the tri-fold family guide for the Denali Legacy special exhibit, Family Day promotional materials, and redesigned the School Program handout as a tri-fold with inserts promoting Educators’ Night and Museum Kits.
Promotional graphics included ads for the Alaska, Alaska Airlines, Where, and Alaska Railroad magazines, Bearfoot Guides, and the Fairbanks Convention and Visitors Bureau, and ads for the museum’s Military Appreciation Day, Open House, and UAF’s Welcome back campaign. Other graphics design projects included new UAMN business cards; a new, more flexible format for the museum’s Annual Report; products for the museum’s Otto Campaign and marketing survey; and replacement library cards for the Noel Wien Library and Ft. Wainwright Library.
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Polar Voices is a series of 12 radio episodes with complementary internet media produced over four consecutive years. Using natural sound, recorded elements, interviews gathered on location, Polar Voices is an adventure radio series that explores climate change through expertise available through the PoLAR Climate Change Education Partnership. The project is funded by the NSF through Columbia University. ($113,728)
With Visitor Services, designed new summer admission signs and graphics for the Museum Store sale and Toy Drive.
COMMUNICATIONS
Telling the story of the museum expanded this fiscal year with the introduction of a tumblr account for features from the museum, along with several project blogs. We told the story of an exhibit-in-the-making with our Denali Legacy blog, featuring posts about the arrival of artifacts to the museum and the research efforts of Guest Curator Angela Linn.
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