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Bio

For 19 years until April 2013 I had the great fortune to work at Academy Studios as a fabricator and at times a team leader planning, building, and installing exhibits for many projects around the country and around the globe. Many of the photographs here are from my work during this time.

Some of the exhibit fabrication work shown is individual in nature but in large part it is the collaboration of many wonderful people coming together on various components of the projects, whether it be design, content, management or other fabricating team members.  I can’t thank them enough..

Sprinkled in are freelance projects from recent years.

Specialization

Over the years of working as an exhibits fabricator,  different skills have been in greater and lesser demand as trends come and go in the Natural History and Museum world.  

I have built a varied skill set over time, in recent years doing more and more artifact mount making, from large (blue whale skeletons) to small and delicate (jewelry mounts).

  • Diorama construction
  • Rock work
  • Tree/Plant Fabrication
  • Model Making, Painting, Molding and Casting
  • Large Model Construction
  • Ferrous and Non Ferrous Metal Fabrication, brazing and welding
  • Armature Construction
  • Scale Models
  • Rigging and other installation work
  • Carpentry and general cabinetmaking
  • Interactives

Contact

readgibbons@gmail.com

 

 

Project List

International Wetlands Park Hong Kong

Papalote Museo del Niño Mexico D.F.

California Academy of Sciences 

Mississippi River State Park

Bugworld Liverpool

N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences

Ecocentro Puerto Madryn

Brooker Creek Preserve

Año Nuevo State Park

Smithsonian National Museum of Nat. History Behring Hall of Mammals

The Henry Ford Museum

The Chicago Field Museum

Alcatraz Cruises

The Marin Humane Society

The Canadian Museum of Nature

The Museum of Idaho

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology

Memorial to the Environment Maya Lin

Florida Aquarium

Aquarium of the Bay

 

 

Ty Warner Sea Center

Riverbend Nature Center

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Akron Zoo 

San Mateo County History Museum

Joe Quinney Winter Sports Center

Burke Museum

Tacoma History Museum

Mt. St. Helens Forest Learning Center

Star Wars Identities

Mississippi River State Park