Exhibitionism
Posted: September 17, 2026 Filed under: Art, Exhibit Development, Museums, Science, Social Justice, Uncategorized, Writing Leave a commentI’m so pleased to be working on a series of science center exhibitions with an extra-special sauce, that I think just might change the industry forever…? I want to tell you all about it. Ooo but we’ve only soft launched. Ain’t that just the way?
Look at the image below. Can you guess what THREE exhibitions it represents…?
Flying to Mars with NASA
Posted: May 30, 2024 Filed under: Art, Museums, Science, Screenwriting, Social Justice, Writing | Tags: Film, NASA, scicomm, SciEd, Science, Screenwriting Leave a commentAt the end of 2022, I was finally able to see the gorgeous final product of a project that began in 2020: a full-dome planetarium show Mars: The Ultimate Voyage. As co-writer and advisor on the project, I was humbled to hear planetarium directors calling it perhaps the most comprehensive show about long-distance space flight yet. Ask me anything about the challenge of balancing complex science with a cutting-edge approach to inclusivity and equity, or about the all-around joy of working closely with NASA scientists to collect their stories. And catch Mars: The Ultimate Voyage at planetaria everywhere on planet Earth!
COVID-19 Exhibition: virtual + physical
Posted: April 4, 2022 Filed under: Exhibit Development, Interactive, Museums, Research, Social Justice, Storytelling, Writing Leave a commentFor the past year, I’ve been honored to work with folks from Seattle and King County on an exhibition about communities rallying together during the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition started online, as a partnership between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the South Seattle Emerald. It will take physical form in the foundation’s Discovery Center in June 2022.
As ever, my job as exhibit developer is humbling, and all praise is due to the folks whose stories are featured here––I hope we’ve done you justice. Thank you for sharing your stories, and most of all, thank you for doing the sometimes impossible-seeming work of leading community through collective trauma.
Many thanks, all, and more information soon.
If All Water Were Blood
Posted: January 5, 2019 Filed under: Art, Books, Fiction, Social Justice, Speculative Fiction, Writing 2 CommentsI’m honored to finally have this piece in print, after having read and kneaded and baked it for years now. Thank you yet again to the powerful people of Paper Darts.
Mandford
