"Exhibit looks at contributions of women religious" by Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service, May 15, 2009
A three-year traveling exhibit looking at the lives and contributions of women religious to American society debuts this weekend in Cincinnati.

A project of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious,“Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America” opens May 16 at the Cincinnati Museum Center and runs through Aug. 30.

Designed by Seruto & Co. in Pasadena, Calif., the show can accommodate artifacts and photos from the archives of local religious communities in each city where it stops.

After its Cincinnati run, “Women & Spirit” moves on to the Women’s Museum in Dallas, followed by stops at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque, Iowa, over the next 23 months. Other bookings are being sought for 2011 and 2012.

"Teamwork: The Orchestration of Exhibit Design" by Jennifer Bressler
Exhibit Builder, February 2009

"Our story - A major exhibit shows the impact that African Americans have had on U.S. culture." by Destinée-Charisse Royal
The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 16, 2009
On this weekend of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, the National Constitution Center, where President-elect Barack Obama urged the nation to confront "the complexities of race in this country," is offering a major exhibit of African American contributions to our country... The exhibition is... a 12-gallery, 15,000-square-foot, touring multimedia showcase that exhibit presenter (Tavis) Smiley calls the "biggest, baddest, boldest exhibit ever to tell our story in the history of the country." And, Smiley says, having the show hosted by the Constitution Center in the nation's birthplace broadens its presentation.

To reach this moment, Smiley looked back to the words of Harvard-educated activist W.E.B. Du Bois: "Would America have been America without her Negro people?" "That is the quote that I wanted to create and design this exhibit around. I wanted all of America to wrestle with that question," Smiley said in an interview. "There is a back story to Barack Obama and this exhibit really is that back story." ...Smiley expects that "America I AM" will leave visitors enlightened, inspired and entertained.

“Reshaping Cherokee History,” by Jess Clarke
Asheville Citizen-Times, April 19, 2006
“Emissaries of Peace: Cherokee and British Delegations of 1762” is…based…on a memoir by British Lt. Henry Timberlake.… [His] book is “the most detailed account of Cherokee life in the 1700s that exists from someone who was there,” says Barbara Duncan, the museum’s education director. “It provided a lot of information that is about the authentic Cherokee traditions and things Cherokee people can really take pride in as part of their past and incorporate in their ongoing traditions today.”

“Show Me the Mummy,” by Jim Farber
The Daily Breeze, June 24, 2005
[The exhibition’s creators and corporate sponsors]…conceived a museum going experience that achieves the academic and artistic level you would expect from a world-class museum, while displaying some of the most remarkable archeological artifacts in the world in a way that evokes the spirit of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" with state-of-the-art visuals worthy of Las Vegas.

“Tutmania II : Egypt's hottest mummy still golden in L.A.,” by Evan Henerson
Daily News, June 15, 2005
The exhibition looks to place Tut's life - and wealth - in a historical context. Historians and curators can actually do this because of the amount of material Tut's tomb yielded.

“King Tut Reigns Again,” by Maria Puente
USA Today, June 6, 2005
The new Tut exhibit is larger [than the one that circulated in the late 1970s] — nearly 130 objects, including 70 from other pharaohs' tombs — and has a broader story to tell. It's not just about Tut but about the splendor of the Pharaonic lifestyle and the complicated culture of ancient Egypt.…[Irvin] Lippman, [Director of the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art,] who worked at the National Gallery when Tut I was there, says the new exhibit is richer and deeper than the first one with updated scholarship, better exhibit technology and more interactive features.

“An Old View Is New Again 70 Stories Up,” by David W. Dunlap
New York Times, March 11, 2005
“We don’t want this experience to be just about the view, Said Rob Speyer, a senior managing director of Tishman Speyer Properties, co-owners of Rockefeller Center with the Crown family of Chicago.  “We want tourists to experience Rockefeller Center in an extraordinary way from the moment they arrive.”

National Geographic Press Release
December 1, 2004
Tutankhaman Treasures to Return to the United States After 26 Years; Museums in Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, Philadelphia and Chicago to Host Exhibition…