I belong to a group called The Superfriends. The Bay Area Museum (or BAM!) Superfriends in particular. We made our first conference appearance at California Association of Museums, and these are the publicity materials I made for our session: a flyer and pins for all 8 participants. I call our new mascot “Home Alone Twitter [...]
This postcard was created for the exhibition California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present. Obviously based on the “Greetings From…” series of postcards popular in the 1950s, the card can be found at the end of the exhibition, where visitors are invited to write it to a [...]
On one of those “I can’t believe this is my job” days, I got to create Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas paper dolls. And then in one of those “I can’t believe this is happening” moments they were featured a Jewish Daily Forward blog and on Jezebel.com. All the outfits are based on photographs [...]
I’m planning a Chinese New Year/Purim celebration, and got it in my head that I wanted the invitations to look like the red envelopes that are given out with “gelt” in them. My friend Aron did the Chinese calligraphy and scribe Julie Seltzer did the Hebrew. They both say “gong shi fah tzai”, a wish [...]
This is a short editorial piece that I was super excited to be asked to write for the publication Museum ID. I reached new levels of procrastination preparing this at 3 AM on deadline, but I think it came out in a coherently rambly style that feels like my voice. It’s the first written piece [...]
This is a postcard I created for the teen program, “Monsters, Munchies, and a Movie” at the CJM. We don’t really have a teen aesthetic, so I had to dip into the adolescence I remember all too often, and try to create something that would appeal to teenagers in a non-pandering way. Being as juvenile [...]