Howard+Revis Design

H+R's traveling exhibit for the Jim Crow Museum has opened in its first location. Currently at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, "Overcoming Hateful Things" uses objects and images of intolerance to explore the roots of racism, promote understanding, and encourage dialogue. The 3,000-square-foot exhibit features 100+ objects and custom multimedia.

Explore the exhibit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK5lLrjO9fw&ab_channel=JimCrowMuseum

We are excited to announce the groundbreaking for the expansion project at the National Civil Rights Museum. The project will build upon the foundational exhibit at the Lorraine Motel and take the interpretive experience from 1968 to our time. Together with Self+Tucker Architects and SWA Group, we are honored to be the museum's design and interpretive development partner in their critical work.

Read about yesterday's groundbreaking ceremony here: https://wreg.com/news/local/national-civil-rights-museum-breaks-ground-on-two-year-expansion-project/amp/

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3D Exhibit Designer Position Howard+Revis Design Services, a leading exhibition design firm located in Washington, DC, is looking for a 3D exhibit designer to join our small, but growing team of dedicated professionals.

The Freedom House Museum in Alexandria, VA officially reopened on Juneteenth! We are honored to be a part of the next chapter of the building at 1315 Duke Street.

Thousands of enslaved people were forcibly trafficked from Northern Virginia to New Orleans through this building. H+R worked with the City of Alexandria to tell their stories. The exhibit highlights personal experiences and takes a step back to investigate historical sources, asking, "How do we know what we know?"

Freedom House also features a Virginia Black history exhibit and a gallery of art based on African American sites. We highly recommend a visit!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/18/alexandria-freedom-house-museum-slavery/

Sometimes our projects intersect in unexpected and wonderful ways. Last Friday, ownership of a plot of land along the Rappahannock River known as Fones Cliffs — site of a historic encounter between European explorer Captain John Smith and Native Americans living on the land — was returned to the Rappahannock Tribe in Virginia.

Kudos to our client, the US Fish & Wildlife Service. for protecting the site adjacent to the property and its resident population of eagles, and for their charge to work with the tribe to tell their story. Also a shout-out to Dr. Julia King and the team at St. Mary's College (partner to our History St. Mary's City project) for unearthing the story of the tribe's long occupation of the site. And, of course, congratulations and respect to Chief Anne and the whole tribe for righting a wrong 400 years later.

Read the full article here:

Rappahannock Tribe reacquires ancestral Virginia land 350 years later The transfer of hundreds of acres at Fones Cliffs marks a significant partnership.

H+R was honored to attend the Smithsonian Award for Excellence in Exhibitions award ceremony this morning.

Girlhood (It's Complicated) was selected as the shared winner of the 2020/2021 Smithsonian Excellence in Exhibitions Award! Kathleen Franz, lead curator, deservedly accepted the award on behalf of the project team, which we are proud to be a part of!

Some of the judges' comments:

"This is a rare instance where the final design and content deliver on the concept and intent for the exhibit to have a visual and voice for girls that carries through in various forms."

"Exhibit graphics and the exhibit voice, based on how girls talk and are talked to, is playful and engaging and the labels are written in such a way that they come from a girl's voice."