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rainey tisdale

interpretive and strategic planning | content and collections curation | institutional capacity building | creative process
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Americans today are still grappling with much unfinished business that has its roots in the European settlement of this continent. In collaboration with Michelle Moon, I am currently leading a multi-year interpretive planning effort at Historic Huguenot Street that attends to this unfinished business.

April 1, 2024

Feeling our way toward reparative interpretation at Historic Huguenot Street

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In Workshops, Planning, Prototyping, Coaching, Capacity Building, Experience Design, Organizational Culture, Collections, Teaching Creativity, Placemaking, Interpreting Local Places, Exhibitions, Emotion, Creative Practice, Content Development

This new, 4,600-square-foot museum in development in Augusta, ME, is dedicated to building greater knowledge about, participation in, and stewardship of the First Amendment, which protects our freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition.

August 15, 2019

Bringing Maine’s First Amendment Museum to life

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In Planning, Placemaking, Content Development, Prototyping, Experience Design, Coaching, Exhibitions

July 1, 2019

Building a creative exhibition infrastructure for Mystic Seaport

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In Exhibitions, Planning, Workshops, Placemaking, Teaching Creativity, Capacity Building, Coaching, Content Development, Experience Design, Organizational Culture

May 1, 2019

Creative adaptation at the 1867 DeLong House in Glen Falls, NY

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In Exhibitions, Planning, Workshops, Interpreting Local Places, Placemaking, Teaching Creativity, Prototyping, Experience Design, Coaching, Capacity Building, Collections, Emotion, Organizational Culture

April 1, 2019

Leading the museum community in healing after the Boston Marathon Bombing

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In Collections, Planning, Exhibitions, Interpreting Local Places, Content Development, Emotion, Experience Design, Interpreting Cities

Visitor Comments:

“A great place for healing”

“Thank you for holding us with care.”

“Thank you for this closure. I truly needed it.”

“This is my one outlet for my grief.”

“I came thinking of myself and left thinking of you.”

“I’ve felt so lost—now because of this I am found.”

March 1, 2019

Dear Boston: Messages from the Makeshift Memorial

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In Emotion, Exhibitions, Collections, Content Development, Experience Design, Interpreting Local Places, Interpreting Cities, Creative Practice

“When coaching TED and TEDx speakers, we often emphasize that the most successful TED Talks aren’t merely presentations. They’re acts of sharing that combine authority and vulnerability. Rainey nailed both parts: authority in that she knew her material cold and was the only person in the world who could tell that story, and vulnerability in that she really lets the audience in and feel what it was like to live through such an emotionally charged assignment.” —Jimmy Guterman, TEDxBoston

February 1, 2019

Our Year of Mourning

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In Emotion, Exhibitions, Collections, Interpreting Local Places, Content Development, Interpreting Cities

January 1, 2019

You Are Here: Archiving Providence in the Present

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In Collections, Exhibitions, Interpreting Local Places, Content Development, Emotion, Prototyping, Interpreting Cities, Experience Design, Creative Practice

December 1, 2018

Teaching professional conversationalists how to speak with objects

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In Exhibitions, Creative Practice, Placemaking, Prototyping, Content Development, Collections, Organizational Culture