Exhibitions & Exhibit Elements

Snake River Exhibit

Exhibitions & Exhibit Elements

In a 2018 exhibit at The Mammoth Site, I painted the background mural based on reference pictures taken at the dig site in SE Wisconsin. I developed the foreground landscape using foam, glue, hard-coatings, paint, artificial foliage, bison bones, paper-mache and other materials. I was able to integrate the artificial turf almost seamlessly to the grassy background. While most of the foreground elements are not to scale, the scene does a good job of depicting how the bones are erupting from the muddy embankment and being excavated. The creek, painted on top of the hard coat, shows other aquatic inhabitants of the local ecology and through the glass surround, one gets to see what might be below the surface.

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Other Mammoth Site Exhibits and Elements

Dima, Siberian Baby Woolly Mammoth Mummy

This cast arrived looking like a bronze statue. The objective was to finish it to look like a soft-bodied specimen with the color and texture of frozen and dried flesh. Very few Dima casts in the world depict the animal with this much hair. It is based upon the original field notes of the attending Russian scientists.

Juvenile Yuka Mammoth Brain

This specimen came to The Mammoth Site as a semi-transparent 3D print from the Russian Academy of Medical Science in Moscow. I finished it to look like brain tissue. It was in exchange for a cast of the Giant Short-faced Bear brain in the next picture.

Giant Short-faced Bear Brain Sculpture

I made this sculpture from the CT scans of the interior skull cavity of the extinct bear we have at The Mammoth Site.

Yukagir Horse Tooth

3 casts I made next to the original tooth

Columbian Mandible

This specimen was too fragile to mold once fully prepared. I sculpted this from a different cast to show erupting teeth for the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton Canada.

Giant Short-faced Bear skull

Sample of my work. Skull and mandible mounted on wood.

Mammoth Skull and Tusks - Augustana

Mammoth Skull and tusks for Beauty in Bones exhibit at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It was reinforced to be hung from the ceiling and I had to make the right tusk out of segments of a second copy of the left one.

Columbian Mammoth mandible replica

Three replicas next to original Yukagir Horse Tooth

...because art speaks.

Snake River Exhibit

Exhibitions & Exhibit Elements

Other Mammoth Site Exhibits and Elements

Cave Facade