“We added to the exhibit in four key ways…”

Gold Fever keeps sweeping the state! The Imperial Valley Desert Museum in Ocotillo is currently hosting Gold Fever.  They have done a fantastic job adding to the exhibit.  In fact, in a recent blog post they succinctly outline there process. We added to the exhibit in four key ways 1)   highlighting facts and quotes in … Continue reading →

Hobos to Street People exhibit retires

A hugely successful and socially conscious traveling exhibit . . . Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present enjoyed much success and traveled from 2009 to 2012.  The exhibition featured mixed media art from both New Deal-era and contemporary artists, examining past and present attitudes and policies towards homelessness. … Continue reading →

Creating the Safety Net

Did you know Exhibit Envoy offers exhibit tour management services? One of our latest projects is working with the Sisters of the Holy Family to travel an exhibit they developed that looks at the impact Catholic Sisters have had in California.  It is a fascinating history and a very real current mission for these Women … Continue reading →

Alice Piper’s legacy

From the road… Elaine Elinson, Author & Curator Alice Piper, a 15-year-old Paiute Indian girl, knocked on the door of the recently built Big Pine Grammar and High School seeking to register for classes.  She and six of her Indian friends were refused admission – denied enrollment because they were Indian.   So they headed to the … Continue reading →

Collecting the Golden State in Song

Singing the Golden State, Traveling Exhibition An Interview with James Keller, curator James Keller, a published musicologist known in San Francisco as the program annotator for the San Francisco Symphony, has another passion: collecting popular and beautifully illustrated sheet music from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Exhibit Envoy had the honor of working with … Continue reading →

Wherever there’s a fight – We will be there!

This famous scene from the screen adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1939 The Grapes of Wrath reminds audiences and readers almost 75 years later that it has always been the little guy who stands up to injustice. Borrowing from this famous line, authors Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi, wrote a book about these struggles for civil liberties in … Continue reading →

Translating Exhibits in Small Institutions / CAM Conference Follow-Up

Wait, it’s June!?! Isn’t that how it goes. You participate in a conference – network, exchange ideas, vent, get inspired and view your work in a different way. You’re fueled for change and greatness when you return home. Then the first day back and the routine operations, inbox full of emails, and deadlines supersede much … Continue reading →

the latest traveling exhibit…. it is music to our ears

Singing the Golden State celebrates California through popular songs of an earlier era as they live on in sheet music and period recordings. The show features sheet music of songs and piano pieces published from the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th. All of it relates to some aspect of … Continue reading →

Grizzly Bears in Los Altos

  The staff at the Los Altos History museum remind us that: “Not long ago, the peninsula was rich in natural resources. Food was abundant, with plenty for wildlife and the native peoples. This changed dramatically with the arrival of Europeans, and by 1900, the grizzly once prolific here had been hunted to extinction. Today … Continue reading →