Projects

The Memory Care Experience Station   The Experience Station, akin to a mini theater, is an enrichment interactive that engages people with mid-to-late stage dementia. It provides a social, soothing, or stimulating experience via special effects, sensory...

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People Imitating Cats was a project created for the Walker Art Center in conjunction with their Internet Cat Video Festival.

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Early calculators were unwieldy, noisy, smelly machines that required constant maintenance. Mechanical engineer Mark Glusker collects them and Maria Mortati explored them during residencies at Machine Project and Southern Exposure Gallery. 

Sometimes, the public finds contemporary art "unfriendly" or hard to understand. The BMA was opening a new contemporary wing and wanted to transform one of the galleries into a space to help give people skills to engage with contemporary art. Through a collaborative...

Working with the Director and staff, we created a new exhibition development process to foster innovative design practices.

This Oakland Museum of California, they wanted to find a way to engage the public with the complexities and nuances involved in the state water story.

Through the Public Engagement Artist-in-Residence Program at the Hammer, explored interventions to address wayfinding and lunchtime audiences. Our inquiry resulted in a large, physical installation, The Giant Hand. This mechanized, informational sign points visitors...

Led the exhibition redesign transforming the Main Gallery and related spaces from Zeum to the Children’s Creativity Museum. This consisted of crafting a sustainable vision, and leading design through the opening. Managed teams, budgets, and resources. This resulted in...

As an employee at Gyroscope Inc., I worked as the project lead of this new hybrid science and culture museum in Northern Colorado. From Master Planning through Final Design, co-crafted a vision and strategy for the institution through the opening. This process...

The SFMM was an experimental museum platform where exhibits were often annual and resulted from a challenge-based approach to the general public. The first exhibition was a dual city collaboration with the Denver Community Museum. The SFMM has appeared at sites such...

As an exhibit developer and designer, I worked on a variety of innovative, new, museum projects.  These included: The Leonardo, The Bishop Science Adventure Center, The San Francisco Zoo, and The Oslo Barnemuseum. Often with a focus on interactives.

As an employee of the Exploratorium, worked on the N.S.F. Funded “Outdoor Exploratorium” grant. During the Research and Prototyping phase,  conceived, built and tested prototypes with team, public and evaluators. In collaboration, developed the project Conceptual...

BAFA was the first survey of its kind in the region that looked at the intersection of art, craft, and design. Included curating, exhibit development, catalog, exhibit design, and production. Became an annual event for several years subsequently curated by staff from...

As an employee of West Office, worked as a Sr. Exhibit Designer on projects such as Final Design for the Las Vegas Springs Preserve and Concept Development for the California Science Center.

Co-created a large, interactive installation which consisted of a product showroom “metatherapy.com,” by artist Neil Grimmer. Concept development through installation consisted of a kiosk-to-modified pager system, with accompanying interactives, wall art, website, and...