Internship at The Field Museum
of Natural History, Chicago
May - June 2017
While interning at The Field Museum we worked under Senior Project Manager and Rep Shop Technician, Susan Phillips as well as Exhibition Design Director, Alvaro Amat. We worked together on a number of tasks, including the painting of replica vessels for an interactive, re-making a mould that needed replacing, and prototyping for an upcoming new exhibit.
Vessels for Ancient Americas Exhibit
Blank fibreglass vessels we were given to paint
Some of the originals we based our work on
Bone mould for Evolving Planet Exhibit
From left to right: broken bone from interactive exhibit, clean cast from
original mould, plaster test cast from new mould, hand-painted new bone cast
Prototyping for incoming exhibit
