The Benton

Museum marketing, print and digital

Speculative Fiction: Past, Present, and Future program cover: a painted crashed spaceship on an orange desert, with event details on white below

Events

Promotion for public programs, made for print and social: a printed program for the Speculative Fiction panel, an animated story for Evening at the Museums, and a promo for a D-I-Y Zine Basics workshop with the UConn Library.

Promo · Speculative Fiction panel · Cover art: Hubert Rogers, Crucible of Power, Astounding Science Fiction, 1939. Courtesy of the New Britain Museum of American Art

D-I-Y Zine Basics promo on a phone: green distressed lettering over torn paper and a collage of punk zine covers — Promo · D-I-Y Zine Basics · Zine covers from the UConn Library collection

Story · Evening at the Museums

Education

A choose-your-own-adventure scavenger hunt for kids, made for Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge (2023). The exhibition looked at how science, art and museums make knowledge, using objects from the American Museum of Natural History’s archive as “Instigator Objects.” I designed the game and its look. Players pick a profession — entomologist, biologist or paleontologist — and get a printable sheet for it. Each sheet shows close-up details of objects from the collection to match to the Instigator Objects, then a bonus challenge: discover a new species, draw it and name it.

Choose Your Adventure: Virtual Scavenger Hunt start screen in a browser, with a parchment scroll over an old map and a magnifying glass Start Here button — Virtual scavenger hunt

Three printable parchment-style challenge sheets, for a paleontologist, an entomologist and a biologist, each with six cropped object details to match to the Instigator Objects — Printable challenge sheets

Public sculpture

I built a virtual tour of the sculptures on campus in Google Earth. Each stop pairs a 360° view of the piece with its label: artist, date, materials and how it came to UConn.

Google Earth tour stop for Crisscross XVI by Larry Mohr, an aluminum I-beam sculpture on campus, with its label card beside the 360 view — Google Earth tour · Crisscross XVI

Benton Museum web page for The Arc, an orange Alexander Liberman sculpture, on a desktop monitor — Web page · The Arc

Raid the Archive: Edwin Way Teale and New Works banner hanging on the brick front of the Benton Museum, with people at tables below — Exhibition banner · Raid the Archive

Bella and two fellow designers smiling on a black couch in front of a colorful hanging sculpture at the Benton — The Benton’s design team, 2023: Morgan Derby, me and Madison Marquez