Over the course of two years, I became an invaluable member of the small CRBS team. In this small institution, the tasks and responsibilities I took on enhanced my professional development - as a curator, collections cataloguer, graphic designer, and collaborator/writer of essential museum documents.
Through coursework and collaboration with the Museum Studies program, I created a program plan and exhibit concept.
Between Fall 2017 and Summer 2018, I worked on cataloguing correspondence received by Ray Bradbury between the years 1969 and 1974.
A fairly true recreation of Ray Bradbury’s basement office.
A publicity pamphlet I designed for the Center in collaboration with the Coordinator for Development and Programming. The design had to fulfill the requirements of branding for IUPUI, but also allowed for creative freedom in developing the personal brand for the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies.
Over the summer and fall of 2018, I developed a month-long exhibit for the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at the IUPUI Campus Center Cultural Arts Gallery. The topic of the exhibit paired with an annual presentation given by the director, Dr. Jonathan Eller.
“An Illustrated Man: The Art of Ray Bradbury” primarily was an exhibit of reproductions of visual paraphernalia associated with Ray Bradbury’s fiction: movies, plays, book covers and illustrations, and comics.
Using Sketchup and Adobe Photoshop, I developed the layout of the space as well as the design for labels and collages of Bradbury’s book covers over the decades.
Given the centralized location of this gallery, in the Campus Center, the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies desired some opportunity for visitors to the exhibit to interact with the material. Flip charts asked visitors what their thoughts were and encouraged both written and visual responses.
The hallway leading to the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies acts as further exhibit space. In the early months of 2018, fellow intern Emily Hanawalt and I created this expansive gallery wall of cut sheets from Ray Bradbury’s collection of publications.