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San Antonio Wayside Exhibits Win National Honor

Mark Johnson talks about wayside exhibit planning and design

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Mark Johnson talks about wayside exhibit planning and design with visitors from Chile's National Parks.

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Wayside exhibit at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.

  

Wayside exhibit at San Antonio Missions NHP

NAI 2003 Interpretive Media Awards

A series of new bilingual waysides, created for Mission San Juan and Mission Espada, recently took first place at the 2003 Interpretive Media Awards ceremony at the National Association of Interpretation (NAI) convention in Sparks, Nevada. Harpers Ferry Center’s waysides team – Mark Johnson, Chad Beale, Larry Matson, and Bruce Kaiser – share this award with San Antonio Missions NHP interpreters Cherry Payne, Liz Dupree, Dava McGahee, and Dr. Roz Rock.

Planning, designing, and producing waysides, like any interpretive media project, takes the support of many specialists to get the job done. Thanks go to HFC Media Development employees Richard Hoffman, Betsy Ehrlich, Roberta Wendel, and Susan Haines, HFC Media Assets employees Teresa Vazquez de Vado, Wade Myers, and Terry Smallwood, HFC Acquisition Management employees JoAnne Grove, Annette Abshire, Timothy Smearman, Dee Dee Dinges, Melody Wolfe and Robin Butler, and HFC Programs and Budget office’s Marilyn Williams and Donna Wenner. All played key roles in placing San Antonio’s newest interpretive messages out into the public eye on the historic missions’ landscapes.

Contractors provide Harpers Ferry Center with additional professional expertise and technical capacity. For the new San Antonio waysides, IDIQ artists Steven Patricia and Richard Schlecht developed paintings. Novelist Mario Bencastro translated the final English texts into Spanish. GS Images’ Doug Wright, Judy Fox, David Helene, and Jackie Woodcock screenprinted the panels. Hopewell Manufacturing’s Paul Kramer and Jim McLeaf built the aluminum bases.

One hundred sixty-seven media products in twelve categories were entered in this year’s NAI Annual Interpretive Media Excellence Awards. Harpers Ferry Center is proud to recognize the accomplishments of this outstanding team. We thank our San Antonio colleagues for nominating this HFC-product for national evaluation. We consider it a privilege to have had the experience of working on this challenging project with you.

  
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