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Stephen W. Hutchins Portfolio

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New Mexico State Museums exhibitions 2 – 4

The Red that Colored the World 3 – 4

Local Color: Judy Chicago in New Mexico 1984 – 2014 5 – 6

The Newark Museum exhibitions 7 – 17

Picturing America 8 – 12

OFF LIMITS: Rutgers University and the Avant Garde, 1957 – 1963 13 – 14

Once Upon A Dime: The World of Money 16 – 18

Fire Escapes: Danger & Survival 19

International Center of Photography exhibitions 20 – 27

Che! Revolution and Commerce 21

Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography 22

Unknown Weegee 23

Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt 23

Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video 24

Martin Munkacsi: Think While You Shoot! 25

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932 – 1946 26

Louise Brooks and the “New Woman” in Weimar Cinema 27

Atta Kim: On-Air 27

Aljira: a Center for Contemporary Art exhibitions 28 – 37

Fausto Sevila: Despojo 29

Wherein Fury Takes Flight... 30

*MLYLT: Me Love You Long Time 31

Dancing in the Dark 32 – 33

Endurance 34

Bending the Grid: Black Identity and Resistance in the Art of Frank Bowling 35 – 36

Bending the Grid: Memoir of an Assimilated Family 37

North Carolina Museum of History exhibition 38 – 40

Folklife Gallery 39 – 40

The Seer Museum model 41 – 43

State of New Mexico, Department of Cultural AffairsMuseum Exhibition Designinstallation photos, 3D computer renderings

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As an Exhibition Designer for the State of New Mexico, working within the Museum Resources Division, I have had the opportunity to design exhibits for the Museum of Internation Folk Art, New Mexico Museum of Art and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This position has allowed me to refine my 3D computer graphics skills for designing and presentations.

The Red that Colored the World is an exhibit on the history of cochineal dye shown in examples of paintings, sculpture, furniture and textiles from the mid-16th to current day. Designed for the Museum of International Folk art, installation photos are shown on page 3 and computer renderings on page 4.

An exhibition for the New Mexico Museum of Art, Local Color: Judy Chicago in New Mexico 1984 - 2014, is shown on pages 5 thru 6. Page 5 is of installation photos and page 6 shows 3D computer renderings before installation of the exhibit. This show was part of a celebration of Judy’s 75th birthday as well as her 30 years of living in New Mexico.

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Computer drawings


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The Newark MuseumMuseum Exhibition Designinstallation photos

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The following seven pages show installation photographs of two art exhibitions at The Newark Museum that I designed while working on staff there for five years as an Exhibition Designer.

Pages 8 thru 12 are photographs of the exhibition Picturing America. This was a ground breaking exhibition. For the first time within a museum the chronological history of American Art from the Colonial Period to the present is intermixed with American Decorative Art and Native American Art displayed together. This was a two year design and permanent installation project that was installed on two floors of The Newark Museum, covering 15,000 sq ft.

Pages 13 thru 14 are photographs of the exhibition OFF LIMITS: Rutgers University and the Avant Garde, 1957-1963. Also a ground breaking exhibition, this show exposes the original happenings of Avant Garde Art in the United States. The primary artists that started the Avant Garde movement within the US grouped together in New Jersey, creating and displaying their work before moving their ideas and exhibitions into New York City. It was not until this point that they became internationally recognized. The catalog for this exhibition has been used as an important reference in American Art History classes since it’s inception. This exhibition was given the award of Best Exhibition outside of New York City by the New York Times in 2001.



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Rutgers University and the Avant Garde1957 - 1963

OFF LIMITS


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ESCAPES:FIREDanger& Survival

The Newark MuseumMuseum Exhibition Designinstallation photos

The following four pages show installation photographs of two kid-friendly exhibitions at The Newark Museum that I co-designed and oversaw production.

Pages 16 thru 18 are photographs of the exhibition Once Upon A Dime: The World of Money. This is an exhibit that helps kids to understand the history of money over thousands of years and across the world. They can peek into a large bank vault filled with all different kinds of “money,” follow the story of money from barter to digital dollars through a series of interactive exhibits, and be challenged to think how they would spend, save, and invest their own money. Then they put on their lab coats and become an inspector on the lookout for counterfeit bills in our Crime Lab.

Page 19 shows photographs of the exhibition Fire Escapes: Danger & Survival. This interactive exhibit teaches fire safety and prevention to thousands of children and families throughout Newark and surrounding communities. It includes a real modified fire truck cab that children can climb on and explore, a demonstration area with fire gear, clothing and equipment that children can try on, and a Hazard House featuring special effects (such as projection fire flames and “smoke” ) and interactive devices to provide a simulated experience for locating fire dangers within the home and safely escaping without harm.



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ESCAPES:FIREDanger& Survival


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International Center of Photography Museum Production Managerinstallation photos

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The following seven pages show installation photographs of nine exhibitions at the International Center of Photography (ICP) that I worked on as the Production Manager with the Designers to oversee the installations. ICPs galleries consist of 5,000 sq ft. The schedule of installations requires that the space be de-installed and re-configured for the new installation within a ten day period. This is quite a challenge, working with various numbers of artists, designers, curators, and an installation crew of up to 24 people.

ICP, at the time, was located one block from Times Square in New York City. For this reason, ICP must have extremely organized and clean exhibitions to compete with the other museums in NYC.



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Snap JudgmentsNew Positions in Contemporary African Photography


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MARTIN MUNKACSIThink While You Shoot!


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H E N R I C A R T I E R - B R E S S O N ’ S S C R A P B O O K

Photographs, 1932-1946


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Aljira: a Center for Contemporary Art Gallery Exhibition Design floorplans and installation photos

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The following nine pages show installation photographs and some design layouts of seven different exhibitions at Aljira: a Center for Contemporary Art. I designed these exhibitions and oversaw installation while working as a contract Exhibition Designer over an eleven year period. All of these exhibitions are shown within the same 3,000 sq ft gallery space.

The exhibitions that I designed for Aljira range from solo shows of internationally recognized artists to group shows of emerging artists. Aljira has for over 20 years conducted an emerging artists program to educate and promote artists to the real aspects of showing and selling their work in the art world.



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DANCING IN THE DARK

The illustrations shown here are examples of the types of exhibition layouts that I produced for Aljira for all of its exhibitions. This design layout was for Dancing in the Dark.


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DANCING IN THE DARK


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The illustrations shown here are examples of the types of exhibition layouts that I produced for Aljira for all of its exhibitions. This design layout was for Bending the Grid: Black Identity and Resistance in the Art of Frank Bowling.


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North Carolina Museum of HistoryMuseum Exhibition Designinstallation photos

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The following two pages show installation photographs of the inaugural exhibition of the Folklife Gallery at the North Carolina Museum of History’s grand re-opening into it’s new 40,000 sq ft building. This was the very first exhibition that I designed and oversaw installation. It was after the completion of this exhibition that I realized that designing exhibitions was my calling.

The Folklife Gallery was a permanent installation that showed many different aspects of life across the state of North Carolina. The environments and artifacts on display in this gallery show the range of different religions, grass roots organizations, wood carvings, ceramics making, boat and decoy making, food preservation by canning, and the display of the annual North Carolina Folk Art Awards. This gallery was also designed to be the party/reception room for the Governor of North Carolina.


FolkliFe Gallery


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Museum Design The Seer Museum model

pencil drawing by Stephen Hutchinsof The Seer by Giorgio de Chirico1914-15

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The following two pages show photographs and floor plans of a museum model that I had designed based on the characteristics of the painting The Seer, by Giorgio de Chirico. I designed this museum before ever designing an exhibition or working within a museum. I have always had a great appreciation for museums, not realizing at the time that I designed this model that I would one day design museum exhibitions as a career.

This museum was designed to display art separated in three categories. The first floor of the museum would show two-dimensional artwork, the second floor would show three-dimensional artwork and the third floor contains a theater for performing arts.


The Seer Museum


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museum of internation

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