Experiential Design
Creating community celebrations and immersive experiences that spark joy, forge connections, and enhance how people and communities engage with culture, place, and each other.
Community Celebrations
LIBRARY GALA Creation of three Alice in Wonderland interactive augmented reality experiences for themed gala. More here. (2025)
Work
SINTERKLAAS FESTIVAL Annual holiday festival that attracts 10k people.Created installations of 150+ artifacts using physical materials, digital technologies, and mechanical dioramas, including two recurring art "museums".
Year of the Ant
Created over 30 spyglasses and scenes with different species of ants and “antics” placed throughout the village of Rhinebeck. Developed a scavenger hunt and narrative storyline. More here. (2023)
Into the Light - Year of Honored Animal Dioramas
Helped organize artist commissioned dioramas of the 17 honored animals and a special window with animals from Bergdorf’s Christmas windows, for installation in shop windows with accompanying scavenger hunt. Created a diorama for the Snow Goose and Hummingbird. More here. (2024)
Hummingbird Diorama Creation of an experience that takes a (fictitious) overturned medieval illuminated book on hummingbirds from 2d, to 3D to animated AR.
Snow Goose Diorama that used Charles Burchfield paintings, natural materials, and a mechanical moving background to illustrate the snow goose migration.
Art Museums
Created three museums: Museum of Modern Ant (in collaboration with Norm Magnusson) with digitally created and artist commissioned ant pieces done in the spirit of modern and contemporary artists. Museum of Antiquities with digitally created ant works from antiquities up to the Modern era. Beastiary Museum with a curated show of the 17 honored animals as represented in ancient through contemporary art and in Sinterklass paintings. See more of Ant Museums here and Bestiary Art Museum here. (2023, 2024)
Bringing History to Life
HISTORIC HALLOWEEN Project involving the creation of 10 augmented reality historic spirit scenes located throughout Rhinebeck village. Based on real photographs and actual happenings, on topics such as transportation, recreation, violet industry, the great fire, and the gilded age. In collaboration with the Dutchess County Historical Society. More here. (2025)
BRUNEL PARK augmented reality installations celebrating pioneering photographer Emile Brunel and the vanguard artists and luminaries that frequented his resort in the Catskills. More here. (2025)
