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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

In 2022 The Frick Pittsburgh invited Michelle Moon and me to lead an interpretive planning effort to reimagine the visitor experience for Clayton, the Frick Pittsburgh’s Gilded Age Mansion. The result was award-winning.

September 29, 2023

Critical thinking on labor, industry, and capitalism at the Frick Pittsburgh

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In Workshops, Planning, Prototyping, Coaching, Capacity Building, Experience Design, Organizational Culture, Collections, Teaching Creativity, Emotion, Creative Practice, Content Development, Applying Social Science, Interpreting Local Places, Interpreting Cities

Using a new experimental model of creative strategic planning, Laura Roberts and I collaborated on a living plan for Cambridge Historical Society that resulted in a name change to History Cambridge, stronger organizational decision-making capacity, and a commitment to history in the service of social cohesion.

November 28, 2022

Transforming History Cambridge through creative strategic planning

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In Workshops, Planning, Prototyping, Coaching, Capacity Building, Organizational Culture, Collections, Creative Practice, Interpreting Cities, Interpreting Local Places, Teaching Creativity, Applying Social Science

October 1, 2019

Developing a new educational vision for Montreal’s Musée McCord

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In Planning, Workshops, Interpreting Local Places, Coaching, Capacity Building, Experience Design, Prototyping, Teaching Creativity, Emotion, Organizational Culture, Creative Practice, Interpreting Cities

“[Creativity in Museum Practice is a] veritable bazaar of ideas, activities, and references on creativity that will inspire museum professionals to open up, take imaginative risks, and develop their own methods for practicing in the creative spirit.” —Kathleen McLean

September 1, 2019

Building creative capacity and inspiring museum professionals

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In Applying Social Science, Workshops, Coaching, Capacity Building, Prototyping, Teaching Creativity, Organizational Culture

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