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San Francisco: exhibit fabrication

2004-2024

Over the last two decades I have made interactive exhibits for the Exploratorium in different capacities. First as a full time woodworker in the traveling exhibit shop, then as a visiting designer/wood specialist with the Outdoor Gallery. Here are just a few examples of the hundreds of exhibits I worked on over the years.

Museum on wheels: mobile trike designed with Jesse Marsh to bring the museum experience out to the public on the Embarcadero. Assorted reclaimed barn woods and marine ply, trike chassis by Nijland. 2011
“Space Cubes”: 8 foot long interactive geometry tunnel designed by Mary Elisabeth Yarborough. Apple ply CNCed and stack laminated. 2012
Pin “bell” machine--rebuild of original Exploratorium exhibit.  On the museum floor the table top will get outfitted with metal rings that users manipulate to create adjustable interactive soundscape pinball game. Solid Mahogany with rubber surface, 2013
This “Pi Toss” exhibit redesign illustrates “Buffon’s Needle” experiment. The user tosses brass rods at random and records how many cross the brass lines over a series of throws-divide that number by the number of throws and the result approximates Pi (3.14) Black walnut with brass inlay, 2024
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