Recently, at Blue Rhino Studio...
Updated 03/02/1003/02/10 Big Everything Update
We've just completed our second-ever complete website revamp here at Rhino Central--look for new content all over the place, a brand-new layout, more information about our Services, read some of our client Testimonials, and check out the 10 brand-new galleries in the Museum Work Portofolio, as well as our new Featured Project Page.
02/15/10 The Field Museum
Over the last six months, we have had the great honor of working on an exciting new project with the Field Museum. In their new traveling exhibition, explore the world of mammoths and mastodons through fossils, artifacts, engaging interactives, immersive media, and the story of the most complete and best-preserved mammoth ever found, the baby Lyuba. The exhibit opens March 5th at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Blue Rhino Studio created flesh reconstructions of a 12 foot tall Columbian Mammoth, 6-foot Dwarf Mammoth, a 13-foot Short Faced Bear, Saber-Toothed Cat, Moeritherium (mammoth ancestor), and everything in between for this exhibit, and it was a BLAST! We can't wait to do the next one!See the work finished in the Prehistoric Sculpture Gallery!
Read more, see us working, and watch a video of the mammoth disassembling in our new Featured Project Page!
02/15/10 The San Diego Zoo
The San Diego Zoo is renovating their current Polar Bear Exhibit, and Blue Rhino Studio is helping out! We've created three life-sized, realistic, touchable Polar Bear sculptures to be placed in their new outdoor exhibit (one newborn, one yearling cub, and one adult).
Check out the Zoo's website for more information about the Polar Bear Plunge, or look in the new Modern Animal Sculpture Gallery for more pictures of our big boys!
01/26/10 Texas Historical Society, Fort Griffin Visitor Center
We've just finished installing a whole new interior for the Fort Griffin State Historic Site , in Fort Griffin, Texas. The new exhibit features handcrafted hickory casework and graphic panels with highly specific interpretive illustrations.
See pictures in the Displays and Casework Gallery!
12/30/09 The Minnesota Children's Museum
A brand-new exhibit created by Minnesota Children's Museum will transport families back to the Cretaceous Period (145 - 65 million years ago), the time when dinosaurs last lived on earth. Dinosaurs, opening this week, will allow children and adults to explore dinosaur habitats to better understand how these mysterious animals lived and use inquiry skills to examine what they left behind. We were happy to assist the MN Children's Museum in creating two realistic, scalable, interactive Dinosaur recreations for the new exhibit: an eleven-foot tall Edmontasaurus, and a 3-foot Troadon.
Check out the new Prehistoric Sculpture Gallery for more pics!
12/19/09 Protour / Gencon, Sitelines Productions
Our friends at Sitelines are at it again--they've had us create faux-marble busts of the winners of this year's Pro Tour Magic the Gathering&trade Tournament! The busts will be on display next month at Pro Tour in Rome, Italy! See the finished busts, as well as some of our other tradeshow sculpture work in the Tradeshow Sculpture Gallery.7/31/09 Great Falls of the Potomac Visitor Center
We have created a highly detailed scale model of the Patowmack canal and lock, complete with a miniature scale canal boat, for the National Park Service.Go check out pictures in the Interactive Topographic Maps and Scale Models Gallery.
7/01/09 The Boston Children's Museum
The BCM's new exhibit "Peep’s World" gives children a chance to develop important everyday science skills like observing, comparing and predicting; offers tips for parents to continue the science learning at home; and transports visitors into the world of the characters from WGBH’s Emmy award-winning science program “Peep and the Big Wide World.” We enjoyed making these colorful little guys, and we wish our friends in Beantown the best of luck with this fun new exhibit!
Check out the new Children's Museum Gallery for more pics!
6/01/09 The Minnesota Zoo
Is going to be unveiling the beautiful new sculptural sign we made for their "Woodland Adventure" Area. The sign, measuring 24 feet long, featues a number of hidden animal heads, sculpted to look as though they grew naturally from the wood, including a wolf, elk, beaver, salmon, and bear face.
Check out the Displays and Casework Gallery for more pics!
5/25/09 The Cherokee Nation, Cherokee Female Seminary
We just finished installing an informational kiosk for the Cherokee Female Seminary (the centerpiece of Northeastern State University), in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The kiosk resides in the entrance hall to inform students and visitors of the building's culturally and historically important role.
5/15/09 Mural Content Update
We've added new content to the Museum Murals Portfolio! Including a highly detailed habitat mural for the International Crane Foundation, and a large backdrop mural for Carpenter Nature Center. Go check it out! And soon to come....new Public Spaces content!3/31/09 Big Museum Content Update
We're in the middle of a big content update here at Rhino Central--check out the brand new Slideshow, and 5 pages of new pictures in the Museum Work Portfolio! Look for new Murals and Public Spaces Content next week!
3/12/09 The Minnesota Historical Society
Our friends at the MN Historical Society just opened their newest exhibit "Minnesota's Greatest Generation." This landmark exhibit features more than 6,000 square feet of artifacts, displays and hands-on elements to explore the accomplishments, sacrifices, disappointments, challenges and enduring legacy of Minnesota’s Greatest Generation. We are proud to help them out with another awesome exhibit!
Check out the Immersive Environments Gallery for more pictures from the exhibit!
3/06/09 Carpenter Nature Center...
...Just recieved their last creation in a series of four--our loving labor of several months--comprehensive habitat dioramas, with all the proverbial bells and whistles (River, Wetland, Prairie, Forest). The dioramas are contained within tall cylindrical kiosks (on casters) that can be rolled into new configurations...to make room for, say, a big fundraising even being held tomorrow! Good luck, guys!***Check out tons more pics in the gallery
3/02/09 Toledo Zoo...
...asked us to help with their new children's play area--featuring 12 foot tall tree trunks with built-in climbing holes, periscopes, and animals to touch and explore. The new exhibit opens in early May.
2/11/09 The International Crane Foundation...
...has commissioned us to help with their new African Cranes Exhibit, to be installed in mid-May, just in time for the nice weather. Part of the exhibit will highlight a large wall featuring an African Floodplain mural, Artificial Dugout Canoue, and this life-sized Hippopotamus Sculpture.
***Check out more pics in the gallery
1/13/09 Carpenter Nature Center...
We've finished up the nomadic, interactive "Tree Island" for Carpenter Nature Center's main entry space and shipped it off today. The Island features over 20 different keyholes, flip-doors, animals, bugs, and nooks to explore, all super-strong epoxy-sculpted, and kid-friendly.
***Check out more pics in the gallery
12/11/08 General Mills, Private Commission
One of the most fun projects we've netted here at the studio--a life-sized realistic bust of Stephen Colbert's Head (made to look like it was cast from "MSG"). It's for a running gag on his show The Colbert Report --watch for it to make an appearance sometime this year!
***Check out more pics in the gallery
11/16/08 Paradise Visitor Center...
...just finished up the new backdrop mural for the "above the treeline" diorama--but we won't get to go install it until May (when the snow melts!)
10/27/08 COSI Columbus...
...gave us a very nice plug on their Lost Egypt Newsblog. Thanks guys, you rock!
10/21/08 Atlantis Theater...
...our artists just finished up some of the last elements being sent out to Atlantis theater--two giant-sized goddess statues to complete their entry lobby. The ladies will leave the shop tomorrow and will be viewable by the public by the end of the week.
10/06/08 Paradise Visitor Center...
...our team just got back from Mt. Rainier National Park where they completed an initial install of three habitat dioramas, and a huge sculptural glacier chunk with a life-sized mountain-climber. Began painting new backdrop mural for above-the-treeline diorama early this week.
9/25/08 COSI Columbus Museum...
...just swung by to visit their life-sized Dromedary Camel sculpture sitting on the floor of our shop, destined to be a hands-on attraction for their newest exhibit "Lost Egypt." The camel is just getting some final tailoring on it's saddle before we send it to it's new home.
9/15/08 Carpenter Nature Center...
...has commissioned us to build habitat dioramas for their Visitor Center's new floor display. The cylindrical nomadic displays and interactive tree platform are now underway in our shop. More to come...
