Updated November 28, 2007

 

Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac's On the Road, 1957-2007

The New York Public Library, November 2007 - March 2008

 

Curated by Isaac Gewirtz of the Library's Berg Collection, the centerpiece of the show is the famous continuous scroll on which a draft of On the Road was typed by Kerouac fifty years ago.  Also on display are many fascinating manuscripts, letters, drawings, and photographs by Kerouac and the other Beats.

 

Yaddo: Culture, Crisis, Creativity (Working Title)

The New York Public Library, October, 2008

 

Micki McGee is curating an ambitious exhibition drawing from the Yaddo archives, focusing on the lives, connections, and creative collaborations and contributions of the many writers and artists who have resided at Yaddo from the 1920s - 1980, including Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Katherine Anne Porter and others too numerous to mention.  There will be many interesting correspondences and inscribed first editions.  Roger is designing the exhibition.

 

Pfizer Discovery Center

Pfizer Inc., Brooklyn, NY Opening TBD

 

RWD is developing an interactive "mini-museum" which will tell the story of Pfizer's discoveries, innovations, and contributions to the community.  It will be located in Charles Pfizer's original lab in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

 

Lefferts Historic House, Prospect Park

Textile Exhibition, Spring 2008

 

Roger is designing a permanent exhibition that addresses the questions: Where did textiles come from in 1800 colonial Brooklyn? What did clothing say about social status? How did interaction with Europeans change the way Native Americans clothed themselves? How are the sources of textiles different today? It will open in Spring, 2008.

 

 

 

 

Grand Gallery Cases

AMNH, January 2008

 

Catch an amazing bejeweled crown from the Andes, a huge rubelite tourmaline, and other treasures in the Grand Gallery (77th Street "Canoe" Entrance).  Roger is designing the casework. 

 

The Nature of Diamonds

Produced by AMNH; opening at the Royal Ontario Museum, October 2008

 

RWD is providing design and production management services to reinvigorate this traveling exhibition, which originated at AMNH in 1997.  First stop, the ROM. 

 

Gods, Myths and Mortals: Discover Ancient Greece

The Children's Museum of Manhattan - May 2007 - November 2008

 

Roger joined a talented team to help in the creation of a fantastic new interactive exhibition which includes The Odyssey: a Hero's Journey, a Trojan Horse climbing structure and many other exciting exhibits about ancient Greece.  For information and reviews, go to www.cmom.org.

 

Corocker™

 

The Corocker™, the unique rocking chair and winner of the 2005 Interior Design Magazine Future Furniture Contest, is now available for sale through Roger Westerman Design LLC.  For pictures, click here.