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Natchiq | Onkeehq | Isuwiq Indigenous Artists Honor the Seal


Exhibition Identity  
Environmental Graphics








Role: Graphic Designer
Client: The RISD Museum
I designed the exhibition identity for Natchiq | Onkeehq | Isuwiq : Indigenous Artists Honor the Seal at the RISD Museum, developing the title lockup and extending it into a full visual system across the exhibition's touch-points. The show traces the ongoing relationships Indigenous seafaring peoples hold with seals, bringing together Inuit prints, photographs, and installations by Alaska Native and Inuit artists.

Designing the identity meant working closely with the curators, exhibition designers, and the copywriter at the RISD Museum to make sure the system honored the specificity and weight of the exhibition's subject, while remaining flexible enough to carry across signage, print, and digital applications.




Iterations for title lockup

Process for title lockup, using rounded corners to allude to the water
















Testing the size of the seal motifs, that needed to be painted. 


Working in close collaboration with the exhibition designer to understand the size of the graphics on a digital model. 
Additional information graphics.

Map highlighting the indigenous groups represented in the exhibition. 


Section titles for the exhibit. 


2026, for the RISD Museum, exhibition curated by Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich, and Elizabeth James-Perry. Supervised by Brendan Campbell, Jeremy Radtke, María Fernanda Mancera and Stephen Wing.    PREVNEXT
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