Clients
Our clients include museums, foundations, and non-profit arts, cultural, and educational organizations as well as for-profit entities in related fields such as galleries, architecture firms, film production companies, and book publishers.
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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Founded in 1812, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is a leading natural history museum dedicated to informing and building a movement of environmentally engaged communities for a healthy, sustainable, and equitable planet. Their mission is to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it. The Academy has sponsored expeditions; conducted seminal systematics research; built an extraordinary collection of 19 million biological specimens; led critical water and environmental research; transformed global understanding of freshwater ecology; and established a peerless natural history library and archive. It has offered public education for more than two centuries and today welcomes thousands of visitors as a top cultural attraction in Philadelphia.
Bow Bridge was engaged in 2022 to advise as communications counsel and promote Watershed Moment, the Academy’s multi-faceted project featuring art and sound installations, and an outdoor adventure walk revealing the critical importance of watersheds in our lives.
Feature Photograph: Attunement, 2022. A large-scale outdoor sound sculpture designed by David Gordon and fabricated by Jordan Griska. Inset Photograph: The River Feeds Back, 2022. An immersive sound installation, by Annea Lockwood and Liz Phillips, on view in the Academy’s Dietrich Gallery. -
Adirondack Experience
Adirondack Experience
Founded in 1957, Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake (ADKX), is an indoor/outdoor museum presenting vibrant encounters with the history and culture of the Adirondack region. Sited on a 121-acre campus in Adirondack Park, ADKX offers a broad range of programs and activities including special and permanent exhibitions, interactions with artisans-in-residence, workshops, lectures, nature tours, boating instruction, family programs, and signature events like the Rustic Furniture Fair.
Bow Bridge was engaged by ADKX to promote Life in the Adirondacks, a permanent exhibition gallery that opened in 2017, within the context of ADKX’s 60th anniversary.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake Inset Photograph: Courtesy Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake -
American History Workshop
American History Workshop
American History Workshop (AHW) produces public programs to connect Americans with their past. Among its clients are museums, historical societies, historic districts, parks and gardens, filmmakers, public agencies, businesses, citizens’ groups, television stations, and others involved in interpreting history. In his latest book, AHW founder and president Richard Rabinowitz explores the radically altered landscape of public interest in and engagement with American history. One of the most influential public historians of our time, Rabinowitz has created over 500 history museums, exhibitions, and educational programs across the nation.
AHW engaged Bow Bridge to promote the release of Curating America: Journeys Through Storyscapes of the American Past by Richard Rabinowitz, published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Feature Photograph: Jacket Illustration: Quodlibet #3, 2014. Limewood Sculpture by David Esterly. Private Collection. Courtesy The University of North Carolina Press Inset Photograph: Photograph Marla S. Maritzer -
American Jewish Historical Society
American Jewish Historical Society
The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) is the oldest cultural archive in the U.S. AJHS provides access to more than 25 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art, and artifacts that reflect the history of the Jewish presence in the U.S. from 1654 to the present. AJHS illuminates American Jewish history through archival materials, scholarship, exhibitions, and public programs. Headquartered in downtown Manhattan, AJHS has a branch in Boston.
The AJHS engaged Bow Bridge to promote its 2015 Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award presented to John L. Loeb Jr.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy American Jewish Heritage Society Inset Photograph: 2015 Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award Program. Courtesy American Jewish Historical Society -
American-Scandinavian Foundation
American-Scandinavian Foundation
The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) is the leading cultural and educational link between the United States and the Nordic countries. An American nonprofit organization, the ASF works to build international understanding through an extensive program of fellowships, grants, intern/trainee sponsorship, publishing, and membership offerings. As the headquarters of the ASF, Scandinavia House presents contemporary Nordic culture through a wide range of programs that encompass the visual arts, music, and literature, as well as business, finance, and technology. Offerings include art, design, and historical exhibitions; films; concerts; lectures and literary programs; symposia; language courses; and programs for children and families.
The ASF engaged Bow Bridge to promote the following special exhibitions Danish Paintings from the Golden Age to the Modern Breakthrough and its accompanying publication; Independent Visions: Helene Schjerfbeck and her Contemporaries from the Collection of Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery and panel discussion Creative Transformations: A Panel on the Artists of Independent Visions.
Feature Photograph: Eileen Travell, 2013, courtesy Scandinavia House/The American-Scandinavian Foundation Inset Photograph: Helene Schjerfbeck - Girl from California I, 1919. Oil on canvas. Courtesy Finnish National Gallery/Ateneum Art Museum, The Kaunisto Collection. Photograph Hannu Aaltonen -
Americana Insights
Americana Insights
Americana Insights is a new nonprofit e-journal and resource center launched in early 2021. The digital publication is supported by a distinguished advisory board of museum and art-world professionals. Through richly illustrated content in both short-form and essays, it aims to inspire, extend, and enhance appreciation and knowledge of traditional American folk art and Americana from the Colonial era to the early 20th century. It is designed to engage new and longtime collectors, students, scholars, curators, writers, art and American history enthusiasts, and the general public. The publication maintains relationships and affiliations with scholars and institutions whose activities align with its mission.
Bow Bridge was engaged to promote the launch to media outlets and conduct outreach to the e-journal’s constituents, stakeholders, and colleagues, and to garner the attention of and support engagement with various communities and audiences.
Feature Photograph: AI Logo Inset Photograph: Website screen shot Charles Codman, Entertainment of the Boston Rifle Rangers by the Portland Rifle Club in Portland Harbor, August 12, 1829, 1830. Oil on panel, 24 1/2 × 32 1/2 in. (62.2 × 82.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 51.196. -
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Founded in 1954, the Archives of American Art (AAA) fosters advanced research through the accumulation and dissemination of primary sources that document 200+ years of the nation’s artists and art communities. An international leader in the digitizing of archival collections, AAA has over 2 million digital images freely available online. The oral history collection includes more than 2,200 audio interviews, the largest accumulation of in-depth, first-person accounts of the American art world.
AAA retained Bow Bridge to help them build their profile in the arts community by promoting their collections, resources, programs, exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and special events.
Feature Photograph: Lenore Tawney - postcard collage to Maryette Charlton, March 18, 1980. Maryette Charlton papers. Courtesy Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Inset Photograph: Salvatore Scarpitta racing his car at Hagerstown Raceway, 1987. Photograph Joan Bankemper. Leo Castelli Gallery records, circa 1980-2000. Courtesy Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution -
Artists’ Legacy Foundation
Artists’ Legacy Foundation
The Artists’ Legacy Foundation stewards the work of Legacy Artists and facilitates their posthumous philanthropy; recognizes exceptional painters and sculptors through awards and grants; and serves as an educational resource. The Artist Award recognizes outstanding visual artists whose primary medium is painting or sculpture. Each year, ten finalists are nominated by a group of anonymous arts professionals and reviewed by a three-member jury of peers.
Bow Bridge has been engaged since 2021 to promote the Artist Award, (Nancy Rubins in 2021 and Juan Sánchez in 2022), to raise awareness of the Foundation nationally and internationally.
Feature Photograph: Nancy Rubins, MoMA & Airplane Parts at Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy, 2003. Airplane parts, steel, black tie-wire cable, 27 x 42 x 25 ft. Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy. Inset Photograph: Juan Sánchez, Strange and Bitter American History, 2005. Oil, mixed media collage on wood panel, 74 x 72 inches. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. -
ArtPlace America
ArtPlace America
ArtPlace America (ArtPlace) advances creative placemaking across the country, the practice of making arts and cultural projects central in place-based strategies to transform communities. ArtPlace America awards grants to arts organizations in communities across the U.S.
ArtPlace is a collaboration of thirteen national and regional foundations and six of the nation’s largest banks. ArtPlace also seeks advice and counsel from close working relationships with various federal agencies along with leadership from the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Domestic Policy Council.
Bow Bridge was engaged by ArtPlace America to promote the announcement of new initiatives, finalists and grantees, new leadership, a new foundation partner, and serve as communications counsel.
Feature Photograph: Andre Kirman, courtesy The People's Library Project, Philadelphia Inset Photograph: Conference logo, courtesy ArtPlace America -
Arts Alliance
Arts Alliance
Arts Alliance is the leading producer, financier, distributor, and marketer of Event Cinema films worldwide. With over seventy releases, Arts Alliance engages movie-goers and fans around the globe with live and filmed opera and ballet performances, dynamic art exhibitions, theater productions, and major rock and pop events. In 2014, Arts Alliance launched a series of exhibitions on screen, taking audiences behind the scenes to see how blockbuster exhibitions come about and virtually explore leading museum collections. Included are conversations with artists, conservators, curators, museum directors, scholars, and art historians.
Bow Bridge was engaged to promote the 2015 series. It includes films based on Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (Tate Modern and The Museum of Modern Art); Rembrandt: The Late Paintings (London’s National Gallery and Rijksmuseum); highlights from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; and Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring and other treasures from the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague. The final film, presented in theaters in the U.S. on July 14, 2015, is based on a traveling exhibition of work by French Impressionists and the art-dealer who introduced them to American audiences. We also advised on U.S. premiere events at MoMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Feature Photograph: Poster, courtesy Arts Alliance Inset Photograph: Production still, courtesy Arts Alliance -
ArtsWave
ArtsWave
With the help of tens of thousands of donors, ArtsWave supports the work of more than 100 arts organizations making an impact in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky metro region. ArtsWave awards impact-based grants to major institutions, community arts centers, and smaller cultural organizations.
ArtsWave engaged Bow Bridge to promote the work of the organization and special initiatives on a national scale.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy ArtsWave Inset Photograph: Community Programming at Music Hall, Cincinnati. Courtesy ArtsWave -
ArtWorks
ArtWorks
Founded in 1996, ArtWorks is a creative and economic engine that unites Cincinnatians to transform their city through public art, including their award-winning mural program, art therapy, and creative enterprise initiatives. ArtWorks is the largest visual arts employer in the region.
ArtWorks engaged Bow Bridge to promote the work of the organization to national and international media and highlight its mural art program in 2015‒16.
Feature Photograph: James Brown: Mr. Dynamite – Painted mural designed by Jenny Ustick Photograph J.M. Wolf. Courtesy ArtWorks Inset Photograph: Armstrong - Painted mural designed by Eduardo Kobra. Courtesy ArtWorks -
Association for Public Art
Association for Public Art
The Association for Public Art (aPA) commissions, preserves, promotes, and interprets public art in Philadelphia. Since its founding in 1872, aPA has worked with artists, communities, and civic leaders to make encounters with art a part of everyday life. As the nation’s first private nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning, aPA’s work is characterized by artistic excellence, creative initiative, collaboration, and civic engagement. Working closely with city agencies, aPA remains today a central resource and contributor to Philadelphia’s enduring reputation as an important place to view and experience public art.
Bow Bridge was engaged by the aPA to promote a major announcement to both local and regional as well as national and international media and position the aPA as a dynamic organization fulfilling an important mission.
Feature Photograph: Symbiosis (2011, installed 2014) by Roxy Paine. Photograph: James Ewing Photography © 2014, courtesy Association for Public Art Inset Photograph: SYMBIOSIS (2011, INSTALLED 2014) BY ROXY PAINE. PHOTOGRAPH: JAMES EWING PHOTOGRAPHY © 2014, COURTESY ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC ART -
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Located in midtown Manhattan, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) is dedicated to innovative programming showcasing the best of contemporary Austrian art, music, literature, performance, and scholarship in New York and throughout the U.S. In addition to presenting three group exhibitions per year in its multi-level gallery space and housing around 13,000 volumes of Austriaca in its library, ACFNY hosts over 100 free events per year in its auditorium and supports many projects at partner institutions across the nation.
Bow Bridge was engaged to provide strategic communications services and counsel for the promotion of the exhibition and publication Three with a Pen: Lily Renée, Bil Spira, and Paul Peter Porges in 2021. The exhibition was organized by the Jewish Museum in Vienna.
Feature Photograph: ACFNY building exterior Inset Photograph: Lily Renée, Señorita Rio comic strip, in: Fight Comics no. 35, December 1944 -
Bata Shoe Museum
Bata Shoe Museum
The Bata Shoe Museum, the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, features a collection of over 13,000 examples of shoes, footwear, and related material and artifacts from around the globe spanning 4,500 years. Established in 1995, the Raymond Moriyama-designed Museum features a popular semi‐permanent exhibition, All About Shoes, and three galleries devoted to changing exhibitions. Drawn from the earliest civilizations to today’s leading designers, the displays and public programs provide a unique window onto society and the history of humankind. Highlights include an assortment of celebrity footwear from a set of Queen Victoria’s ballroom slippers to Elvis Presley’s blue loafers to John Lennon’s Beatle boots. The Museum is also a center for field research and education.
On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Bow Bridge was engaged to promote Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in High Heels to raise awareness of the Museum outside Canada and advise as communications counsel.
Feature Photograph: Ron Wood, courtesy, © 2015 Bata Shoe Museum Inset Photograph: Philip Castleton, courtesy © 2015 Bata Shoe Museum -
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) was founded in 1993, in Asheville, NC, to preserve and pay tribute to the history and legacy of innovation of Black Mountain College (1933‒57) and to acknowledge the College’s role as a forerunner in progressive, interdisciplinary education with a focus on the arts. The College drew a roster of influential faculty and gifted students including Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Francine du Plessix Gray, Franz Kline, Jacob Lawrence, Charles Olson, Arthur Penn, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, Ben Shahn, Cy Twombly, among many significant others. BMCM+AC’s programming includes exhibitions, seminars, panel discussions, publications, screenings, and a study center.
Bow Bridge was engaged to promote BMCM+AC’s expansion in downtown Asheville; highlight its special exhibitions and programming; and heighten awareness of Black Mountain College’s enduring influence and Asheville’s vibrant arts scene. Articles have appeared in a number of outlets including the coveted The New York Times Museums section in March 2015.
Feature Photograph: David Dietrich, courtesy Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Inset Photograph: David Dietrich, courtesy Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center -
Borusan Contemporary
Borusan Contemporary
Borusan Contemporary is a multi-platform program of exhibitions, events, educational activities, new commissions, and site-specific installations based on the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. These activities are defined by their specific focus on media arts broadly defined, i.e. artists who work with time, light, technology, video, software, and beyond. Most programs take place at Perili Köşk and co-exist with the offices of Borusan Holding creating a unique museum-in-an-office setting. The building including the galleries, office spaces, café, shop, and outdoor terraces are open to the public on weekends.
Borusan Contemporary retained Bow Bridge to promote their efforts to expand their profile in the U.S. and internationally in 2017, through a suite of exhibitions at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, a pop-up gallery event in New York City, and their Diana Thater exhibition coinciding with the 2017 Istanbul Biennial.
Feature Photograph: U-Ram Choe - Una Lumino Portentum, Scientific name: Anmopispl avearium cirrpedia Uram, 2008. Stainless steel, motors, light-emitting diodes, acrylic casting, circuits, custom software, CPU board, motor. Courtesy the artist, bitforms and Borusan Contemporary Inset Photograph: Borusan Contemporary at Perili Köşk Istanbul, Turkey. Courtesy Borusan Contemporary -
Brown Arts Initiative, Brown University
Brown Arts Initiative, Brown University
The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) seeks to cultivate creative expression and foster an interdisciplinary environment where faculty and students learn from each other and from artists and scholars from across the campus and around the world. Comprising six academic departments and two related programs, the BAI builds on Brown’s reputation as a destination for arts exploration, contributing to cultural enterprise through the integration of theory and practice. Most of the BAI programs are free to the public.
BAI retained Bow Bridge in 2016 to serve as communications counsel and develop and implement a strategic campaign to promote its official launch in 2017 and establishment of its brand. With its stellar roster of programs, the firm helped position the initiative as a transformative asset for Brown and the Providence community. The firm promoted BAI’s programs, events, projects, exhibitions, symposia, professors of the practice residency program, and initiatives with leading artists across disciplines, curators, activists, and scholars to local, regional, and national media.
In coordination with Brown, the firm developed and distributed press materials announcing the architect selected for its new performing arts center and, later, the reveal of the design concept.
Bow Bridge also promoted BAI partnerships and collaborations on campus, within the community, and nationally including projects with UCI’s Institute for 21st Century Creativity and New York City-based Performa.
Feature Photograph: Jelili Atiku, Shoot the Breeze, April 2018. Interactive, outdoor performance with student participants. Brown University campus. Inset Photograph: The Cohen Gallery at The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI. Courtesy Brown Arts Initiative -
Caples Jefferson Architects
Caples Jefferson Architects
Caples Jefferson Architects (CJA) is an award-winning design and architecture firm founded in 1987 by principals Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson. The firm designs architecture that is engaged with social, cultural, and community concerns built sustainably. CJA provides architecture and interior design services as well as master planning, urban design, research, and programming—completing over 100 projects for civic, corporate, educational, cultural, public, and private clients in the U.S. and abroad. New York City projects include the interior of The Africa Center on Fifth Avenue; Queens Theatre in the Park in Queens (2011); Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn (2013); and the Louis Armstrong House Museum Education Center in Queens.
Bow Bridge was engaged to raise the firm’s profile among national and international media. In coordination with CJA, Bow Bridge developed press materials on the firm, advised on opportunities for visibility for the firm’s projects and principals, and liaised with client communications teams to ensure proper positioning of the firm within their media materials and support promotional efforts.
Feature Photograph: Louis Armstrong House Museum Visitor Center, Queens, NY, 2019 (projected completion). Architectural rendering of façade at night. Courtesy Caples Jefferson Architects Inset Photograph: The Africa Center, New York, NY, 2019 (projected completion). Architectural rendering of building entrance interior. Courtesy Caples Jefferson Architects -
Christopher W. Mount Gallery
Christopher W. Mount Gallery
Specializing exclusively in architecture and design material, Christopher W. Mount Gallery opened to the public on May 23, 2014. Mount Gallery presents drawings, sketches, models, photographs, prints, and art experiments by prominent figures engaged in the design arts. The Gallery offers the public the opportunity to view and acquire work collected by eminent institutions internationally. Mr. Mount brings 30 years of experience in the field, including 14 years as a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA, and as an editor, writer, historian, academic, and certified appraiser. The Gallery also provides curatorial services, sales counsel, and consulting in “legacy building” for architecture and design firms and related estate planning and assists in placement, general advisement, appraising, and cataloging of large collections and firm archives.
Bow Bridge promoted the opening of the Gallery and its inaugural exhibition, A Modern Master: Photographs by Balthazar Korab, securing coverage in national dailies and prominent art, design, and architecture outlets.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy of Christopher W. Mount Gallery Inset Photograph: Courtesy Christopher W. Mount Gallery -
Common Field
Common Field
Common Field is a national network of independent visual arts organizations and organizers that connects, supports, and advocates for the artist-centered field. Founded in 2013 and launched in 2015, Common Field’s network of 650+ members across the country includes contemporary, experimental, noncommercial artist-centric organizations and organizers including alternative art spaces, publications, digital exhibition venues, residencies, platforms, collectives, collaboratives, and individual organizers.
Bow Bridge provided strategic communications counsel during a period of transition for the organization. Messaging highlighted and contextualized the organization’s essential role and resources during the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing impact on the sector.
Feature Photograph: Common Field Logo Inset Photograph: Convening Session, 2019. -
Contemporary Arts Center
Contemporary Arts Center
Founded in November 1939 as the Modern Art Society, the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) was one of the first institutions in the U.S. dedicated to exhibiting the art of its time. CAC focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art, and new media, presenting on average ten exhibitions and thirty performances annually in its Zaha Hadid-designed facility.
CAC engaged Bow Bridge to help promote their exhibition program to a national and international audience and the announcement of their free admission program inaugurated in 2016.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy Contemporary Art Center Inset Photograph: Do Ho Suh - Apt. A, Corridor and Staircase, 348 West 22nd Street, New York NY 10011, USA, 2011-2012. Polyester fabric and stainless-steel tubes. Courtesy Contemporary Art Center -
Dusti Bongé Art Foundation
Dusti Bongé Art Foundation
The Dusti Bongé Art Foundation (DBAF/the Foundation) promotes the artistic legacy of Dusti Bongé (1903–93), Mississippi’s pioneering Abstract Expressionist painter, through exhibitions, conservation, scholarship, and education. Established in 1995 in Biloxi, Mississippi, the artist’s hometown, DBAF preserves and promotes her extensive oeuvre and is dedicated to increasing public awareness of and access to her work.
The Foundation retained Bow Bridge to promote the major new publication—Dusti Bongé, Art and Life: Biloxi, New Orleans, and New York—the first to document the full range of the artist’s exceptional life and prolific career. It was published in 2019 in conjunction with the exhibition Piercing the Inner Wall: The Work of Dusti Bongé, organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans. In addition, Bow Bridge worked with the Foundation to refine institutional messages and media materials.
Feature Photograph: Dusti Bongé, Self-Portrait, 1939. Oil pastel on paper, 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Dusti Bongé Art Foundation Inset Photograph: Book cover for Dusti Bongé, Art and Life: Biloxi, New Orleans, New York. 2019. -
Friends of Florence
Friends of Florence
Since 2013, Friends of Florence (FoF) has retained Bow Bridge to help build its profile in the media outside Italy by heightening awareness of its conservation projects and activities. Recent projects include Michelangelo’s Pietà housed in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo; Michelangelo’s Madonna of the Stairs and Battle of the Centaurs, Casa Buonarroti; Verrocchio’s Putto with a Dolphin and Juno Terrace, Palazzo Vecchio; Gionanni Maria Butteri’s Coronation of the Virgin with St. Helen and St. Mary Magdalen, Basilica of Santo Spirito; Chapel of St. Luke in the Convent of Santissima Annunziata; and Rosso Fiorentino’s Deposition, Pinacoteca Civica Museum in Volterra. In addition to supporting ongoing conservation oversight for Michelangelo’s David and Prisoners (or Slaves) in the Galleria dell’Accademia, FoF’s maintenance programs continue with the “adoption” of the Cloister of Vows in SS Annunziata and the High Altar in San Miniato a Monte and presentation of the National Archeological Museum’s Medici and Lorraine Gem Collection now on view for the first time.
Feature Photograph: Cloister of the Vows, Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Italy (after restoration 2013-17). Courtesy Friends of Florence Inset Photograph: Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci; Pontorme, Empoli 1494‒Florence 1557). Deposition, 1525‒8. Tempera on panel, 313 x 192 cm. Church of Santa Felicita, Florence, Italy. After restoration in 2017 with support from Friends of Florence. Photograph by Antonio Quattrone -
Frist Art Museum
Frist Art Museum
The Frist Art Museum is a nonprofit art exhibition center dedicated to presenting and originating high-quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities. Located in downtown Nashville, TN, the Frist offers exhibitions featuring the breadth of the visual arts across time from local, regional, national, and international sources that inspire people to look at their world in new ways.
Since 2013, Bow Bridge has supported the Frist’s promotion of its new initiatives and exhibition program while raising its profile nationally and internationally. Exhibitions have included critically acclaimed Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles; Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video; Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy; Rome: City and Empire; Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century; Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s; Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar; Jitish Kallat: Return to Sender; and J.M.W. Turner: Quest for the Sublime, Rina Banerjee: Make me a Summary of the World; Lillian Porter: Man with Ax and Other Stories; Picasso. Figures; and Creating the American West in Art; Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful; Virginia Overton: Saved; Knights in Armor; Matthew Ritchie: A Garden in the Flood; Light Space Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Weaving Splendor: Treasure of Asian textiles from The Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy Frist Center for the Visual Arts Inset Photograph: Robt Ames Cook, courtesy Frist Center for the Visual Arts -
Gardiner Museum
Gardiner Museum
The Gardiner Museum celebrates the art of ceramics by connecting visitors to the fundamental role of ceramics in many cultures throughout history, and offers special temporary displays, many highlighting the relevancy of ceramics to contemporary life. The permanent collection comprises approximately 4,000 objects and focuses on specific areas that have been collected in depth. It also houses ceramics from the Ancient Americas, Chinese blue and white porcelain, Japanese porcelain, and contemporary Canadian ceramics.
The Gardiner engaged Bow Bridge to advise on strategies to raise the profile of the Museum in North America and internationally.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy Gardiner Museum Inset Photograph: Steven Heinemann – Husk, 1996. Cast and pressed earthenware. Photograph Taimaz Moslemian. Courtesy Gardiner Museum -
Headlands Center for the Arts
Headlands Center for the Arts
Headlands Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary, international arts center dedicated to supporting artists, the creative process, and the development of new, innovative ideas and artwork.
Founded in 1982, the campus comprises a cluster of artist-rehabilitated military buildings at historic Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands, a part of San Francisco’s Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Through their Artist-in-Residence program, Headlands supports artists of all disciplines and provides opportunities for independent and collaborative creative work and site-specific installations. Headlands provides unique access for the public to witness these kinds of works-in-progress outside of a museum or gallery context. Regularly scheduled public events include open houses, exhibitions, conversations, community meals, walks, and workshops.
Bow Bridge is engaged to create and implement a media strategy across platforms to promote Headlands’ programs and seasonal activities and to highlight Headlands’ relevance in building awareness of and appreciation for art’s essential role in society.
Feature Photograph: Headlands Bunker Photo by Goldberg Inset Photograph: Headlands Studio Paul Rucker. Photo by Andria Lo.
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Historic Huguenot Street
Historic Huguenot Street
A National Historic Landmark District, Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) encompasses 30 buildings on 10 acres that was the heart of the original 1678 New Paltz settlement. It was founded in 1894 as the Huguenot Patriotic, Historical, and Monumental Society to preserve the collection of stone houses. Since then, HHS has grown into an innovative museum campus dedicated to protecting the historic buildings, conserving a collection of artifacts and manuscripts, and organizing public programs that help tell stories of those who lived on Huguenot Street from the 16th century to today.
Bow Bridge supported the promotion of an exhibition about 17th-century Dutch culture and advised as communications counsel to raise awareness of HHS among regional and national media.
Feature Photograph: Jean Hasbrouck House (ca. 1721), Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY. Photograph Pieter Estersohn, Courtesy Historic Huguenot Street Inset Photograph: Installation view at Jean Hasbrouck House. Photograph On Location Studios, Poughkeepsie, NY. Courtesy Historic Huguenot Street -
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
An influential forum for multidisciplinary arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) has been at the leading edge of art in Boston for over 80 years. Its exhibitions and programs provide access to contemporary art, artists, and the creative process, inviting audiences of all ages to participate in the excitement of new art and ideas.
ICA engaged Bow Bridge in 2016 to serve as part of its communications team, coordinating national coverage of key exhibitions and events. Bow Bridge’s scope of work included promoting the exhibitions First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA and The Artist’s Museum. Bow Bridge also served as communications counsel on the ICA’s 2017 announcement about its expanding its programming to East Boston in 2018.
Feature Photograph: The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects. Courtesy of ICA/Boston Inset Photograph: Cornelia Parker - Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson), 1999. Charcoal, wire, pins, and nails. Gift of Barbara Lee, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. Photograph Charles Mayer Photography ©2016 Cornelia Parker. Courtesy of ICA/Boston -
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas (IFAI) is an annual celebration of performing arts, lectures, and conversations held each June in New Haven, CT. IFAI convenes artists, thought-leaders, and innovators from around the world for a roster of public programs to engage, entertain, and inspire a diversity of communities. More than 80% of IFAI programs are free to the public.
IFAI engaged Bow Bridge to provide strategic public relations support, national media outreach, and communications counsel for the 2016 Festival and activities leading up to it.
Feature Photograph: Festival Stage, New Haven, CT. Photograph Judy Rosenthal. Courtesy International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inset Photograph: Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour production image. Photograph Manuel Harlan. Courtesy International Festival of Arts and Ideas -
International Foundation for Art Research/IFAR
International Foundation for Art Research/IFAR
Established in 1969, the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) is a nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to promoting integrity in the visual arts. IFAR offers impartial and authoritative information on authenticity, ownership, theft, and other artistic, legal, and ethical issues concerning art objects. IFAR publishes IFAR Journal; organizes conferences, panels, and lectures; offers art authentication research and provenance research services; provides comprehensive web-based resources; and serves as an information resource.
IFAR engaged Bow Bridge to provide promotional support for the launch of its newly enhanced Catalogues Raisonnés Database and leverage the opportunity to raise awareness of IFAR generally.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy International Foundation for Art Research Inset Photograph: Courtesy International Foundation for Art Research -
Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art at University of California, Irvine
Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art at University of California, Irvine
The UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA) is home to two collections gifted to UCI: The Buck Collection includes more than 3,000 works of California modern art and The Irvine Museum Collection comprises more than 1,300 California Impressionist paintings. Through exhibitions and publications, research, artist talks, and educational outreach (all free and open to all), Langson IMCA strives to expand the understanding of California’s artistic past and present, its distinctive social and cultural framework, and its contribution to shaping and challenging the art historical canon. UCI is establishing a purpose-built facility manifesting the University’s commitment to education and public service by making the arts a vital component of the University experience. It is expected to open in 2027. Until then, Langson IMCA offers exhibitions and programs in its interim space in downtown Irvine and on campus.
Langson IMCA retained Bow Bridge in 2020 to serve as communications counsel and develop and implement a strategic public relations campaign to raise its profile and heighten awareness of its various facets and offerings. Bow Bridge’s portfolio includes helping to convey the mission, values, and “voice” of the institution as well as its offerings to constituents and broader audiences across communications platforms. Recent exhibitions include Variations of Place: Southern California Impressionism in the Early 20th Century; The Resonant Surface: Movement, Image, and Sound in California Painting; Radiant Impressions; Echoes of Perception: Peter Alexander and California Impressionism; Beyond the Frame; Dissolve and The Bruton Sisters: Modernism in the Making.
Feature Photograph: Interior of IMCA Inset Photograph: IMCA with visiting UCI students -
Kaish Family Art Project
Kaish Family Art Project
The primary objective of the Kaish Family Art Project is to promote the legacy and exhibit the work of American artists Luise Kaish (1925-2013) and Morton Kaish (b. 1927) as well as advance scholarship and research. The Project sees great aesthetic, philosophical, and educational value in offering a view of the step-by-step development of a creative artist, from earliest years to final statements, and provides unique insights into the creative process through the artistic practices of Luise and Morton Kaish.
Bow Bridge was engaged to provide strategic communications services and counsel to promote the publication of Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy (Giles, Ltd. 2021) and to heighten awareness of the artist/educator and her influence on contemporary art, upcoming exhibitions, and the Project’s mission.
Feature Photograph: Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy book cover Luise Kaish, Poet in Two Worlds (Deep Space) (detail), 1975-78. Burnt canvas and acrylic collage, 50 x 68” Inset Photograph: Luise Kaish at work on the Ark of Revelation, MacDougal Street Studio, c. 1962 -
Knoxville Museum of Art
Knoxville Museum of Art
The Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA) celebrates the art and artists of East Tennessee and beyond. A $6 million refurbishment of its Edward Larrabee Barnes-designed facility took place in 2013‒14, returning the KMA to its pristine condition while increasing gallery space and completing the North Garden. The highlight of the reopening was the unveiling of a site-specific monumental commission by Richard Jolley, his most ambitious and complex undertaking to date. Cycle of Life: Within the Power of Dreams and the Wonder of Infinity is one of the largest figurative glass-and-steel assemblages in the world. The KMA also features special exhibitions and a permanent exhibition of works from the collection and loans from individuals and other institutions and an installation examining recent developments in contemporary art.
Bow Bridge developed and implemented a strategic public relations plan to promote the reopening of the refurbished KMA and Richard Jolley’s masterwork. We organized a press trip and media preview. We also advised on an institutional rebranding created by Ferebee Lane + Co. and served as KMA’s communications and marketing counsel.
Feature Photograph: Elizabeth Felicella, courtesy Knoxville Museum of Art Inset Photograph: Elizabeth Felicella, courtesy Knoxville Museum of Art -
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens provides bayfront sanctuaries connecting people with air plants of the world, native nature, and its regional history. Established in 1973 by forward‐thinking women, Selby Gardens comprises the 15‐acre downtown Sarasota campus and the 30‐acre Historic Spanish Point campus in the Osprey area of Sarasota County. The downtown campus on Sarasota Bay is the only botanical garden in the world dedicated to the display and study of epiphytic orchids, bromeliads, gesneriads, and ferns, and other tropical plants. There is a significant focus on botany, horticulture, education, historical preservation, and the environment. The Historic Spanish Point campus is one of the largest preserves showcasing native Florida plants that is interpreted for and open to the public. It celebrates an archaeological record that encompasses approximately 5,000 years of Florida history. Selby Gardens is a Smithsonian Affiliate.
Bow Bridge was engaged in 2022 to promote Tiffany: The Pursuit of Beauty in Nature as the 2023 installment of the Goldstein Exhibition Series, to raise awareness of the Garden nationally and internationally and advise as communications counsel.
Feature Photograph: Waterfall at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL. Inset Photograph: Rendering of Tiffany-inspired gazebo, (2022) at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL. -
Mark Stewart Productions Ltd.
Mark Stewart Productions Ltd.
Mark Stewart Productions (MSP) is an award-winning production company and media consultancy specializing in feature documentaries for theatrical release and television broadcast. MSP films and documentaries have examined diverse subjects from ancient Egypt and Formula 1 racing cars to space travel and aviation history.
MSP engaged Bow Bridge to provide strategic communications counsel on the occasion of the release of its 2014 documentary Fabergé: A Life of its Own on iTunes and DVD in 2017. Bow Bridge conducted intensive outreach to media in North America to heighten awareness of the film and garner coverage.
Feature Photograph: Fabergé a Life of Its Own film still. Courtesy Mark Stewart Productions Inset Photograph: The Winter Egg, Fabergé 1913. Courtesy Mark Stewart Productions -
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
The Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) showcases visual art from antiquity to the present day, including an outdoor public Centennial Sculpture Park. MAG has a permanent collection of more than 12,000 objects. The 14-acre campus is a much-loved public art space that is a popular destination for residents and visitors to the city. In addition to its permanent collection, MAG offers a year-round schedule of special exhibitions, lectures, concerts, tours, after-hours social events, and family activities.
Bow Bridge was retained by MAG to promote its 2020 exhibition The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter’s Stained-Glass Art, the first survey and major scholarly assessment of this groundbreaking artist’s 37-year career. Bow Bridge provided communications counsel and media outreach assistance to help position MAG as a dynamic institution in western New York with a rigorous exhibition program contributing to the study of and public engagement with art.
Feature Photograph: Photo by Daniel Penfield. Inset Photograph: Judith Schaechter, Feral Child, 2012. Stained-glass panel, 25 x 42 in. (63.5 x 106.7 cm). Private Collection. -
Mississippi Museum of Art
Mississippi Museum of Art
Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) is the largest art museum in the state. The Mississippi Art Association, established in 1911, was the precursor to the current Museum, founded in 1978 as a community-supported institution. MMA’s permanent collection includes paintings, photography, multimedia works, and sculpture by Mississippi, American, and international artists. MMA has 31 affiliate museums across the state that benefit from the loan of artworks and traveling exhibitions organized by MMA.
Since 2017, Bow Bridge has supported MMA’s promotion of its exhibition and special installation celebrating the state’s bicentennial; acquisitions and appointments; artists residencies; new initiatives including the Center for Art and Public Exchange and partnership with Tougaloo College, and the Museum generally. Among the exhibitions the firm has promoted: Picturing Mississippi 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise; Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer; New Symphony of Time; and Nick Cave: Feat; Van Gogh, Monet, Degas and their Time; Leonardo Drew: City in the Grass; Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé; and Batye Saar: Call and Response; A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration; Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning; and Maude Schuyler Clay: Portraits of a Place.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy Mississippi Museum of Art Inset Photograph: Noah Saterstrom, Road to Shubuta, 2016. oil on canvas. Collection of Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson. Museum purchase with funds from the Hederman Fund. 2018.006. © 2018 Noah Saterstrom. Courtesy Mississippi Museum of Art -
Monuments Men and Women Foundation
Monuments Men and Women Foundation
The Monuments Men and Women Foundation is a nonprofit organization created to raise worldwide awareness about the service of the Monuments Men and Women, honor them for their achievements during and after World War II, and complete their unfinished mission of returning looted and missing art to the rightful owners.
President George W. Bush awarded the Foundation the National Humanities Medal in 2007, the highest honor in the U.S. for work in the humanities and, in 2015, after eight years of advocacy by the Foundation, Congress awarded the Monuments Men and Women of all fourteen nations the Congressional Gold Medal.
Bow Bridge was retained by the Foundation in 2019 to develop and distribute a press release about new leadership, following up with local, national/international media. In 2022, Bow Bridge was re-engaged to promote the announcement of a ceremony celebrating the graduation of the inaugural class of the Army Monuments Officer Training program at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. A central goal of both engagements was to raise the profile of the Foundation through media coverage and stimulate interest in the organization.
Feature Photograph: Monuments Man Lt. Frank P. Albright, Polish Liaison Officer Maj. Karol Estreicher, Monuments Man Capt. Everett Parker Lesley, and Pfc. Joe D. Espinosa, guard with the 34th Field Artillery Battalion, pose with Leonard da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine upon its return to Poland in April 1946. Photo courtesy of the Monuments Men Foundation. Inset Photograph: Monuments Man Capt. James Rorimer oversees the evacuation of artwork from Neuschwanstein Castle by American military personnel near Füssen, Germany. Photo courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. -
Morris-Jumel Mansion
Morris-Jumel Mansion
Built in 1765, in what was to become Washington Heights in upper Manhattan, Morris-Jumel Mansion (MJM) served as headquarters for General George Washington during the battle of New York and host to presidents, senators, cabinet members, and royalty. It is now a house museum committed to preserving, interpreting, and making relevant to diverse audiences the Mansion’s historic past and collection of period art and furnishings. To celebrate its 250th anniversary in 2015, MJM is organizing special programs and events including an exhibition of work by the eminent artist Yinka Shonibare MBE; an evening onboard a replica of Lafayette’s frigate L’Hermione; a Washington Heights community celebration; and a nighttime theatrical reenactment of dramatic scenes from MJM’s history.
Morris-Jumel Mansion retained Bow Bridge to support the promotion of its exhibitions, public programs, fundraising events, and the Mansion’s 250th anniversary celebration in 2015. Exhibitions included an installation by Yinka Shonibare MBE and the 2017 exhibition A Taste for Chocolate.
Feature Photograph: Tom Stoelker, courtesy Morris-Jumel Mansion Inset Photograph: Tom Stoelker, courtesy Morris-Jumel Mansion -
Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto
Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto supports and promotes forward-thinking artistic experimentation and provides a community space for enrichment, discourse, collaboration, and creativity. Working across all contemporary art forms, MOCA’s programs empower local artists and engage the Toronto art scene while contributing to the international art community and scholarship.
Bow Bridge was retained by MOCA in 2019 to promote its exhibition program to local, national, and international media and to serve as communications counsel throughout the year on related Museum projects. Among the exhibitions the firm has promoted: Carlos Bunga: A Sudden Beginning; Megan Rooney: HUSH SKY MURMUR HOLE; Shelagh Keeley: An Embodied Haptic Space; Sarah Sze: Images in Debris; Acts of Erasure: Fatma Bucak and Krista Belle Stewart; Spaghetti Blockchain: Mika Rottenberg; Archipelago: Michael Lin; Flowers for Africa: Kapwani Kiwanga and Greater Toronto Art 21 (GTA21).
Feature Photograph: Photo by Ben Rahn/A-Frame Inset Photograph: Carlos Bunga, Occupy, 2020. MOCA Toronto. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid Courtesy the artist, Galeria Elba Benitez (Madrid) and Alexander and Bonin (New York). -
National Museum of American Jewish History
National Museum of American Jewish History
The National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH), located on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, brings to life the over 360-year history of Jews in America. Tracing the stories of how Jewish immigrants became Jewish Americans, the Museum invites visitors of all backgrounds to reflect on how their histories and identities have been shaped by the American experience. Through its collection, special exhibitions, and programming, NMAJH honors the past and contributes to a better future by sharing the power of imagination and ideas, culture and community, leadership and service, in ways that turn inspiration into positive action.
In 2015, Bow Bridge was engaged to help the Museum promote a special exhibition, Richard Avedon: Family Affairs, based on an exhibition drawn from the collection of the Israel Museum, in Jerusalem. We also serve as communications counsel.
Feature Photograph: Barry Halkin/Halkin Photography, courtesy National Museum of American Jewish History Inset Photograph: Gene Smirnov, courtesy of National Museum of Jewish American History -
New York Botanical Garden
New York Botanical Garden
Founded in 1891, The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG/the Garden) is the most comprehensive botanical garden in the world and an integral part of the cultural fabric of New York City. More than one million people visit the Garden in the Bronx each year to connect with nature and for plant-based exhibitions, public programs, and classes for all ages. The 250-acre verdant landscape and landmark Enid A. Haupt Conservatory support living collections of more than one million plants. The LuEsther T. Mertz Library holdings include 11 million archival items spanning ten centuries. Committed to protecting the planet’s biodiversity and natural resources, Garden scientists work on-site in cutting-edge molecular labs and in areas worldwide where biodiversity is most at risk.
Bow Bridge has been engaged by NYBG since early 2018 to provide strategic communications support to a number of Garden initiatives and programs including promoting annual special exhibitions inspired by artists; the restoration of the Palms of the World Gallery in the Conservatory the rollout of #PlantLove (a social media initiative); educational offerings, research capabilities, and resources; and the collections and the Garden’s stewardship of them as a living museum. Bow Bridge also helps coordinate press events and advises on communications and marketing efforts.
Feature Photograph: Exterior of Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Photo courtesy of NYBG Inset Photograph: Palms of the World Gallery in Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Photo courtesy of NYBG -
Noguchi Museum
Noguchi Museum
Designed by the artist and occupying a renovated industrial building, The Noguchi Museum comprises ten indoor galleries and an outdoor sculpture garden. Since its founding in 1985, the Museum has exhibited a comprehensive selection of the celebrated artist’s sculpture in stone, metal, wood, and clay, works on paper, and models for public projects and gardens, dance sets, and his Akari Light Sculptures. Together, this installation and the Museum’s diverse special exhibitions offer a rich, contextualized view of Isamu Noguchi’s work and illuminate his influential legacy of innovation.
Bow Bridge was engaged spring 2013‒spring 2014, to promote a traveling exhibition co-organized by the Museum, its accompanying publication, and public programs. Stories and reviews appeared in numerous national and international outlets and the Museum had its highest attendance rate to date in 2013.
Feature Photograph: George Hirose, courtesy The Noguchi Museum Inset Photograph: Elizabeth Felicella, courtesy The Noguchi Museum -
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting modern and contemporary visual art to promote dialogue about ideas fundamental to contemporary society. NEHMA provides meaningful engagement with art from the 20th and 21st centuries to support the educational mission of Utah State University. NEHMA offers complementary public programs such as lectures, panels, tours, concerts, and symposia to serve the University and regional community.
NEHMA engaged Bow Bridge to provide a strategic public relations campaign and communications counsel to promote two major exhibitions at the museum in 2015‒16 including Abstraction and the Dreaming: Aboriginal Paintings from Australia’s Western Desert (1971‒Present) and A Matter of Taste. Bow Bridge is also promoting the opening of the renovated Museum, reinstallation, and major publication, Collecting on the Edge in 2018/19.
Feature Photograph: Elevation drawing of 2018 building addition to Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Courtesy of Sparano + Mooney Architecture and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Inset Photograph: Catalogue cover for exhibition Collecting on the Edge, 2018-19. Courtesy of Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art -
Office of Photographer Edward Burtynsky
Office of Photographer Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky (b. 1955) is a Canadian photographer known for his large-format images of natural environments altered by industry. His lens captures rivers that run fluorescent with chemicals, mountains of detritus, and arid landscapes—vivid reminders of humanity’s impact on the planet in haunting aerial photographs. His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.
Bow Bridge was engaged to provide strategic communications counsel on the occasion of the U.S. release of Burtynsky’s award-winning documentary film Anthropocene (2018) that premiered in New York on September 25, 2019. Bow Bridge assisted with outreach to targeted media in the U.S. to heighten awareness of the film, position the Anthropocene Project, and garner coverage.
Feature Photograph: Anthropocene, film still, 2018. Tusks Burning. Image courtesy of Office of Edward Burtynsky Inset Photograph: Anthropocene, film still, 2018. Berezniki Cave. Image courtesy of Office of Edward Burtynsky -
Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope®
Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope®
Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope® (OBE) is the leading North American supplier of products designed and manufactured to close the building envelope. They include: custom-engineered curtain- and window-walls, architectural windows, storefront systems, doors, skylights and architectural glass. OBE is a subsidiary of CRH plc, one of the leading international building products companies. CEO Edwin (Ted) Hathaway is a much sought-after speaker about advancements in the building industry. OBE has been a long time supporter of public programs at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) as well as at The Philip Johnson Glass House.
In 2013, Bow Bridge helped promote a panel on the future of energy presented at GSAPP and a lecture series at The Philip Johnson Glass House. We assisted in preparing press materials; pitched architecture, engineering, and design media; and provided speech-writing support service to Mr. Hathaway for industry conference presentations.
Feature Photograph: ©Sandra Hamburg, courtesy of The Glass House Inset Photograph: Poster, courtesy Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation -
Onassis Foundation USA
Onassis Foundation USA
The Onassis Foundation USA is committed to the promotion of Greek culture. By cooperating with educational and cultural institutions in Greece and throughout the Americas, the Onassis Foundation USA promotes cultural relations. The Onassis Cultural Center in midtown Manhattan offers a diverse roster of public programs, exhibitions, events, and online engagement for audiences of all ages and interests. Programs and exhibitions are free.
Bow Bridge promoted the expanded visual arts component of its 2016 Festival of Arts and Ideas and its acclaimed exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece 700 BC‒200 AD.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy Onassis Cultural Center New York Inset Photograph: Heads of Achilles and Penthesileia, 2nd century AD. Copy of a Hellenistic original, marble. Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig. Photograph Rüdi Habegger -
Path Through History
Path Through History
Path Through History (PTH) is a program focusing on historically and culturally significant sites and events throughout New York State. PTH was introduced by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and is managed by the State’s I ♥ NY tourism campaign. A central goal of the initiative was to raise awareness of the historic and culturally significant sites across the state, showcase the broad variety of their offerings and programs, and encourage tourists and residents to visit.
Through an RFP process, Bow Bridge was selected by the New York City workgroup to develop and implement a communications plan and social media campaign that focused on the many hidden gems in the five boroughs. We worked with dozens of site representatives and liaised with the Metropolitan Transit Authority, I♥NY, Historic House Trust, and others. In approximately six months, the social media campaign had over 570,000 views on four platforms.
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Feature Photograph: Courtesy of New York Landmarks Conservancy Inset Photograph: Athaphon Kawprasert, courtesy NYC & Company -
Philbrook Museum of Art
Philbrook Museum of Art
Philbrook Museum of Art (PMA), founded in 1929, comprises a 1920s villa designed in the Italian Renaissance style, a contemporary education wing, extensive formal gardens, and a downtown satellite. The PMA’s collection represents a range of eras and cultures from antiquities to the present and includes Italian masterpieces from the 14th‒18th centuries; art from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas; one of the finest surveys of Native American art in the world; modern and contemporary art; decorative arts; and works on paper. PMA organizes innovative exhibitions based on the Museum’s collections and provides a wide range of programs for children and adults.
Bow Bridge was engaged to promote the opening of the Philbrook Downtown, designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects, the PMA’s new satellite location in Tulsa’s vibrant Brady Arts District. We organized a press trip to Tulsa, positioning Tulsa an emergent arts destination, and promoted the PMA to media nationally and internationally.
Feature Photograph: Jeremy Charles, courtesy © Philbrook Museum of Art Inset Photograph: Jeremy Charles, courtesy © Philbrook Museum of Art -
Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival
Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival
The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival (CONTACT) fosters and celebrates the art and profession of photography with its annual Festival in May in Toronto. CONTACT presents lens-based works by acclaimed and emerging artists, documentary photographers, and photojournalists from Canada and around the world. The curated program of primary exhibitions (collaborations with major museums, galleries, and artist-run centers) and public installations (site-specific projects) are the core of the Festival. Open exhibitions present work by local and international artists at galleries and alternative spaces across the city. The Festival also includes a book fair, lectures, talks, panels, workshops, and symposia during the Festival and hosts exhibitions and programs at its Gallery throughout the year.
Since 2018, Bow Bridge has been engaged to garner media coverage to raise awareness of the Festival and to stimulate interest and encourage attendance. Bow Bridge promotes the Festival; high-profile year-round programs; and related public art installations and commissions. Bow Bridge focuses on outreach to local, national, and international media and contributes to the integration of advertising, marketing, communications, and media relations.
Feature Photograph: Carrie Mae Weems, Slow Fade to Black, public installation at Metro Hall, Toronto 2019. Inset Photograph: Ebti Nabag, Girl in Red, Nawal, 2018. Image courtesy of the artist -
Storm King Art Center
Storm King Art Center
Located in New York’s Hudson Valley, Storm King is one of the world’s leading sculpture parks, encompassing over 500 acres of rolling hills, verdant fields, and woodlands. These provide space for a collection of more than 100 large-scale sculptures by some of the most acclaimed artists of our time, including Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Andy Goldsworthy, Maya Lin, Claus Oldenburg, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Richard Serra, David Smith, and Zhang Huan, among others. Storm King’s permanent display is complemented by special installations and exhibitions, both outdoors and in its museum building, and public programs.
Bow Bridge promoted Storm King spring 2013‒spring 2014, its special exhibitions, public programs, and annual fundraising events and served as communications and marketing counsel. We secured a broad range of coverage nationally and internationally and Storm King had its best attendance to date in 2013.
Feature Photograph: Jerry L. Thompson, courtesy Storm King Art Center Inset Photograph: Jerry L. Thompson, courtesy Storm King Art Center -
Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) has a collection of more than 4,700 works with an emphasis on the art and artists of the Northwest and broader Western region. The collection includes the largest retrospective museum collection of glass art by Tacoma native Dale Chihuly on permanent view; the most significant collection of studio art jewelry by Northwest artists; key holdings in 19th century European and 20th century American art; and one of the finest collections of Japanese woodblock prints on the West Coast.
TAM engaged Bow Bridge to promote the announcement of a major gift of the Jack and Becky Benaroya private collection of 225 works. The gift included a contribution for a new gallery space to house the collection and an endowment for its conservation.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy Tacoma Art Museum Inset Photograph: Lino Tagliapietra – Medusa, 2006. Blown glass. Promised gift of the Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Collection. Photo © Tacoma Art Museum, photograph Russell Johnson and Jeff Curtis -
Textile Museum of Canada
Textile Museum of Canada
The Textile Museum of Canada (TMC) inspires understanding of the human experience through textiles. It is the only museum in Canada dedicated solely to textile arts. The Museum connects with its audiences through the stories held within a global collection of 15,000 textiles, active engagement with contemporary art practices, a free textile learning hub, and public programs.
Bow Bridge was engaged by the TMC in 2022 to promote the exhibition Simone Elizabeth Saunders: u.n.i.t.y. to raise awareness of the Museum outside Canada and advise as communications counsel.
Feature Photograph: Exterior of Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto. Photo: Darren Rigo. Inset Photograph: Simone Elizabeth Saunders, Excellence, 2021, velvet, acrylic and wool yarn on rug warp, 152 x 152 x 4 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Claire Oliver Gallery. Photo: Jesse Tamayo. -
The Bentway Conservancy
The Bentway Conservancy
The Bentway works to ignite the urban imagination, using the city as site, subject, and canvas. Anchored under Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway and guiding its complex future, The Bentway is a growing public space and much more. The Bentway is a new type of civic organization: a not-for-profit, powered by vital partnerships with the City of Toronto, residents, supporters, artists, city-builders, and dreamers. The Bentway is a catalyst rooted in experimentation, leading a creative movement to re-imagine the opportunities of urban spaces. Phase 1 of The Bentway opened in 2018 and is already a vital public space, park, cultural platform, connector for the western Waterfront corridor, and a vibrant demonstration of what is possible.
Bow Bridge was engaged by The Bentway in 2021-2023 to raise awareness of the organization nationally and internationally and advise as communications counsel.
Feature Photograph: Arial image of The Bentway, Toronto, Canada. Inset Photograph: Community banquet at The Bentway, Toronto, Canada. -
The Print Center
The Print Center
For more than a century, The Print Center in Philadelphia has encouraged the growth and understanding of photography and printmaking as vital contemporary arts through exhibitions, publications, and educational programs. The Center has an international voice and a strong sense of local purpose. Free and open to the public, it presents exhibitions highlighting established and emerging, local, national, and international contemporary artists. It mounts one of the oldest annual art competitions in the country.
Bow Bridge was engaged to provide strategic communications services and counsel for the promotion of the 2022 exhibition and publication Re-Emerge: Imaging the Self featuring the work of American artist Carmen Winant. The project is supported by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.
Feature Photograph: Exterior of The Print Center Inset Photograph: Carmen Winant, from the series XYZ - SOB - ABC, 2019. Courtesy of the artist. -
The Sylvia Center
The Sylvia Center
The mission of the Sylvia Center is to inspire young people and their families to eat well through hands-on learning experiences on the farm and in the kitchen. Through their programs, participants learn what fresh food is, how delicious it tastes, and how to prepare healthy meals. The Sylvia Center was founded in 2007, and has served tens of thousands of youth, teens, and families in New York City public housing and in Columbia County, NY.
The Sylvia Center engaged Bow Bridge in 2015 to help with national promotion of its programs.
Feature Photograph: Katchkie Farm Learning Garden. Courtesy The Sylvia Center Inset Photograph: Courtesy The Sylvia Center -
Toronto Biennial of Art
Toronto Biennial of Art
Launched in fall 2019, the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) is a new international contemporary visual arts event that is as culturally connected and diverse as Toronto itself. For ten weeks every two years, the city will be transformed by exhibitions, talks, and performances that reflect the local context while engaging with the world’s most pressing issues of our time. In an effort to make contemporary art available to everyone, the Biennial’s free, citywide programming aims to galvanize citizens, bridge communities, and contribute to global conversations from a variety of perspectives.
Bow Bridge was engaged to help roll-out TBA’s inaugural year through a strategic public relations campaign with the goal to raise awareness of the event and related programming and to stimulate interest, support, and encourage attendance and engagement across a spectrum of audiences and communities. Garnering media coverage and cultivating interest among local, national, and international press and the public were key components of the inaugural communications campaign. The firm provided communications support for the second edition of the Biennial in 2022 and is continuing to support the 2024 edition.
Feature Photograph: Dana Claxton. Headdress – Jeneen, 2019. LED Fire-box. Courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art. Inset Photograph: New Mineral Collective, Pleasure Prospects, 2019. Columns, casts of prospecting bore holes, rammed earth, hand-pulverized black copper slag, copper, zinc, steel, aluminum, fine gold and silver shavings, concrete. Commissioned by Toronto Biennial of Art 2019. On view at Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, photo by Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art. -
University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
One of the leading university art museums in the country, UMMA was established in 1856, moved to its current location in 1910, and added the Frankel Family Wing in 2009. The collection—African; American; Asian; European; Middle Eastern; modern and contemporary; and prints, drawings, and photography—spans cultures, eras, and media. The Museum, among the oldest university art museums in the U.S., serves as the catalyst for cultural understanding at the University and within the Ann Arbor community. It is a physical and virtual destination for scholars and art-lovers from around the globe.
UMMA engaged Bow Bridge to coordinate national and international promotion of their 2016‒17 exhibition program and announcement of new curatorial staff.
Feature Photograph: Courtesy University of Michigan Museum of Art Inset Photograph: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, 2007, 42 Eames chairs, motors, computerized surveillance tracking system, edition 3/3 + 1 AP. Courtesy of Antimodular Research -
Visit Philadelphia
Visit Philadelphia
Visit Philadelphia (VP) is the official marketing agency of Greater Philadelphia, building the city’s brand and image through targeted campaigns, media relations, advertising, websites, and social media. They additionally promote regional attractions. Visit Philadelphia’s service to its community and efforts to attract leisure travelers have been extraordinarily successful and considerably impacted the city’s economy and reputation as a must-see destination.
Bow Bridge supported Visit Philadelphia’s (VP) multiyear With Art Philadelphia™ campaign, a partnership to position Philadelphia among the world’s great art destinations and to increase visitation to the region. Partners included the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Penn Museum, and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Bow Bridge worked with VP colleagues to pitch stories, organize media tours, and research new opportunities. We organized three media luncheons in New York City with representatives from the partner institutions and other cultural organizations. The trips and briefings resulted in a range of media describing Philadelphia as a major arts destination.
Feature Photograph: B. Krist, courtesy Visit Philadelphia® Inset Photograph: M. Edlow, courtesy Visit Philadelphia® -
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Yale University Press (YUP) is one of the most prestigious academic presses in the world and widely known for its outstanding list of art books. YUP publications are books and other materials that further scholarly investigation, advance interdisciplinary inquiry, stimulate public debate, and educate both within and outside the classroom. In its commitment to increasing the range and vigor of intellectual pursuits within the University and elsewhere, YUP continually extends its horizons to embody university publishing at its best.
Bow Bridge was retained by YUP to help promote the A&AePortal, its new innovative art and architecture platform. Launched in fall 2019, the A&AePortal broadens access to key art and architectural history titles and creates unique opportunities for online inquiry, research, and discovery. Out-of-print titles, key backlist, recent releases, and catalogues from some of the world’s finest academic and museum publishers are available on the site.
Bow Bridge previously worked with YUP in 2014, to promote the publication of “The World Atlas of Street Photography,” by Jackie Higgins, the second in a series of “World Atlas” books.
Feature Photograph: GLOBALIZING IMPRESSIONISM: RECEPTION, TRANSLATION, AND TRANSNATIONALISM, 2020, AN ORIGINAL, DIGITAL-ONLY VOLUME EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE ON THE A&AEPORTAL. EDITORS ARE ALEXIS CLARK, PHD, AND FRANCES FOWLE, PHD. Inset Photograph: A&AEPORTAL