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| Project Arts & Ideas Since its founding in 1997, Project Arts & Ideas has joined a variety of clients in creating exhibits that both express and inform. Projects are guided from the client's core goals through development, design and production to the exciting moment that the exhibit's voice is heard. Project Arts & Ideas recognizes the power of presentation and the purpose of exhibits as cultural landmarks. For Project Arts & Ideas, an exhibit does more than present special ideas or objects, it is special in itself – as a learning and honoring environment, as the product of common focus and passion, as a platform for celebration and ceremony. Within the variety of Project Arts & Ideas' exhibit projects are common threads of success - spatial and visual themes inspired by a broad range of references; designs that understand the needs and responses of visitors; strong spatial and visual formats that create continuity and identity; command of both verbal and non-verbal communication; creative sense of architecture and scale. There is a connection between a good process and a good product. Project Arts & Ideas values the creative process in collaborative efforts that give form to ideas. |
Joseph Hines, Principal As principal of Project Arts & Ideas, Joseph Hines brings varied experience of applied arts to interpretive exhibitry. Before his graduate studies in communication design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he worked in archeology in North and South America, in field excavations and as illustrator, photographer and filmmaker. In Chicago, he produced his first exhibit project for the Center for American Archeology, and as a graduate thesis project he created the design for a 10-acre interpretive nature center amidst the canals west of the city. During subsequent museum experience in Illinois and Alabama he created exhibitions embracing precious collections and ideas, later designing "Clockwork" and the centerpiece "Henry's Story" exhibition at Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. Mr. Hines' contributions to the field go beyond creative projects with clients. He has conducted research in visitor behavior, has made many presentations to professional groups and has taught Museum Design at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. In 1998 he received funding from CCS to return to South America to study sacred Inca sites as expressive human environments, and he presents his findings in a photography exhibition and lecture, entitled, "Between Power and Spirit: Sacred Spaces in Ancient Peru," available through the Michigan Arts & Humanities Touring Directory and through Project Arts & Ideas. |
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| Recent and Current Clients Automotive Hall of Fame – Dearborn, Michigan Central Michigan University Museum Studies Program – Mt. Pleasant, Michigan Charles Stewart Mott Estate at Applewood – Flint, Michigan City of Wayne, Michigan Clarkston Community Historical Society – Clarkston, Michigan Edsel & Eleanor Ford House – Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan First Congregational Church of Detroit – Detroit, Michigan Ford Community and Performing Arts Center – Dearborn, Michigan Fort Miami Heritage Society – St. Joseph, Michigan Franklin Historical Society – Franklin, Michigan Henry Ford Estate, Fair Lane – Dearborn, Michigan Henry Ford Hospital – Detroit, Michigan The Henry Ford – Dearborn, Michigan The Holland Museum – Holland, Michigan Jewish Community Council – Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit – Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University – Rochester, Michigan Meadow Brook Hall – Rochester, Michigan Museum Center at Five Points – Cleveland, Tennessee Public Museum of Grand Rapids – Grand Rapids, Michigan Putman Museum & IMAX Theater – Davenport, Iowa Sisters of Mercy Regional Community of Detroit – Farmington Hills, Michigan Studebaker National Museum – South Bend, Indiana Town of South Boston, Virginia |
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