Elena Guarinello Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Responsible for strategy, launch, and execution of Untold Stories, a new interpretive initiative to bring in-person and digital experiences to visitors throughout Montgomery County’s extensive parks system.

Washington, DC

• Lead teams of subject matter experts, designers, educators, media producers, and others to conceptualize, plan, produce, and install exhibitions that meet visitor needs and NMAI goals.
• Select exhibitions and accomplishments:- Americans (NMAI-DC), 10 year+ exhibition, opened January 2018, recipient of the AAM’s Excellence in Exhibition Award and Smithsonian’s Excellence in Exhibition Award- Native New.
• Exhibition Development: Facilitate brainstorming sessions and iterative experience planning sprints. Write creative briefs and outlines. Establish visitor goals and content and design parameters. Distill complex.
• Content Production: Provide editorial and creative direction for all exhibition components from headlines and panels to graphics, interactives, and videos. Write, edit, and proof exhibition material. Participate in.
• Design, Fabrication & Installation Management: Manage RFP development, proposal evaluation, and vendor selection. Provide detailed feedback and creative direction to vendors. Guide fabrication efforts and reviews.
• Project Management: Regularly prepare and give presentations to internal and external groups. Serve as the central point of contact for all phases of project planning and implementation for both NMAI and SI-wide.

DC

• Exhibition Development Manager, January 2012-January 2015Program Manager, March 2010-January 2012Content Specialist, February 2008-March 2010Special Projects Coordinator, October 2006-February 2008Primarily served as a.
• Select exhibitions:- Monster Fish: In Search of the Last River Giants, 2015- Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution, 2012- Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor, 2009; named Best Exhibit.
• Exhibition Development: Led interpretative planning efforts, including writing concept plans and outlines. Developed and iterated interpretive and experiential components and executed within defined budget and timeline.
• Content Production: Researched, edited, wrote, and proofed content for a variety of platforms: panels, interactives, video, audio tours, etc. Collaborated with subject matter experts as needed and reviewed their work.
• Collaboration: Regularly worked across National Geographic departments in support of content and assets for Museum projects. Successively steered the integration of National Geographic content into “Earth Explorers,” a.

Wrote grants and other fundraising material to support artists and develop space for the arts.

Generated earned revenue by selling experiential science and public history student programs to schools.

Developed and led after-school programs. Interacted with families on the museum floor and during programs.

Ma, Museum Studies, Exhibition Development

Ba, Growth And Structure Of Cities