African/American: Making the Nation’s Table
Museum of Food and Drink, New York, NY / February 23, 2022 - June 19, 2022
After years of the development spanning the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Museum of Food and Drink succeeded in opening the world’s first exhibition dedicated to African American food and foodways. Through a mixture of digital interactives, integrated graphics and artifacts, and the actual test kitchen from Ebony Magazine, this show highlights the Black innovators, chefs, restaurateurs, brewers, and farmers who built American cuisine as we know it.
African/American: Making the Nation’s Table (Official Website)
Responsibilities included:
Creative directed and project managed exhibition redesign
Recruited and managed vendors for all physical, digital, EGD, and systems integration elements
Coordinated between museum president, vendors, and academic advisors
Represented design progress to the museum board
Developed touchtable interactive
Managed motion graphics development for digital donor wall and subway advertisements
Provided editorial oversight for exhibit text
Physically deconstructed original exhibition casework
Mounted all artifacts in their cases
Developed instructions/troubleshooting guide for docents