Scaffold Exhibits & Consulting helps institutions, organizations, and communities tell their stories creatively and share them with wider audiences, bringing people together and convening groups for important conversations.
Scaffold provides exhibition development, research, and writing services for a wide range of community-based storytelling and humanities projects.
Our values are inspired by principles of community organizing:
Meet people where they are, and listen.
Build teams of leaders, and collaborate.
Show up, even when it is uncomfortable, and build trust.
Keep learning, and be creative.
Exhibit Development Services
Successful exhibitions are storytelling projects that create meaningful public experiences for visitors. Our exhibits do this through our commitment to dedicated research, meaningful community engagement, and innovative design.
We Bring Our Team
Have an idea for an exhibition but don’t have capacity to create it in-house? We will build the perfect team to create an exhibition from start to finish, in collaboration with key stakeholders. From ideation to research to community feedback to iterative design, we will ensure an engaging public exhibition.
We Join Your Team
Need support with bringing an exhibition project to life? We will work with your institution, company, or organization’s staff, board, and volunteers to plan, manage, and evaluate exhibit development, from start to finish.
We Coach Your Team
Looking for guidance on how to move an exhibition project forward to make an impact? We will provide coaching for your institution, company, or organization’s staff, board, and volunteers to help you create a roadmap for all stages of a successful exhibition.
Have a project in mind?
Consulting Services
Community-based Research
Learn from members of your community. We will connect with them through targeted outreach and engagement for civic and humanities projects, exhibitions, public programs, or project evaluation.
Historical Research
Find what you are looking for. We will identify archival resources and deliver original research and data analysis for humanities and community-based projects.
Exhibit Label Writing
Create a meaningful experience. We will write engaging, well-researched interpretive labels for your exhibition, educational trail, or historic site.
Report Writing
Communicate with the public. We will create a visually-compelling report based on our research or yours, to creatively share what you have learned with your audience.
Grant Writing
Fund your project. We will research and write the grant application for your next humanities-based project.
Oral History
Hear from community members in their words. We will coordinate, prepare, and transcribe original audio-recorded oral history interviews for your project.