Work Category: Exhibition Design

In collaboration with the Muscarelle Museum of Art at te College of William and Mary on The Tsars’ Cabinet exhibition IA&A Design Studio designed a comprehensive communications program for the exhibtition that includes a catalogue, exhibition wall graphics, educational materials and exhibit marketing materials.  The book highlights pieces from the collection and illustrates two hundred years of decorative arts in Russia from the time Peter the Great in the early eighteenth century to that of Nicholas II in the early twentieth century.

IA&A Design Studio created this 183-page book for the exhibition, Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens. Meticulously researched and compellingly presented, the book and the exhibition it accompanies raise thought-provoking questions about how photographs of African objects have shaped our ideas about African art and, in turn, how these images contributed to multiple Modernist viewpoints.

The groundbreaking exhibition featured the photographs of American artist Man Ray (1890-1976), whose work translated the vogue for African art into a modernist aesthetic and disseminated this idea to a popular audience. This exhibition explored a little-examined chapter in the development of modernist artistic practice; namely, the significant role photography played in the process by which African objects—formerly considered ethnographic curiosities—came to be perceived as the stuff of modern art in the first decades of the 20th century.

Along with the exhibition and catalogue we created exhibition wall graphics, invitations and educational packets.

Modern Twist explores the evocative, sensual, and sculptural power of contemporary bamboo art. The exhibition demonstrates that in the hands of master bamboo artists, a simple grass is transformed into a sculptural art. The exhibition celebrates these artists who have helped to redefine a traditional craft as a modern genre, inventing unexpected new forms and pushing the medium to groundbreaking levels of conceptual, technical, and artistic ingenuity. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Andreas Marks, head of the Department of Japanese and Korean Art and Director of the Clark Center at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

AWARDS
Creativity 43rd Print & Packaging Awards
Honorable Mention: Book Design (complete, single unit)