Mill Creek: Black Metropolis
A temporary exhibit at the Missouri History Museum that explored St. Louis's Mill Creek neighborhood as a Black metropolis, all that made it special, and its untimely and intentional erasure from the St. Louis landscape.
Skills
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Exhibit design
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Project management
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Art direction
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Shop drawings
By the Numbers
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November 2025-July 2026
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5,000 square feet
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130,000 visitors
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4 large scale projections
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1 double-sided spinning map wall
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$350,000 budget
Roles
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Exhibit designer
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Project manager
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Art director
Design Challenges
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Making up for a lack of artifacts with large-scale projections of home footage from Mill Creek
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Commissioning illustrations of Mill Creek residents to emphasize people over an architecture-heavy photo archive
Selected Press
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A St. Louis Neighborhood, Erased by Urban Renewal, Is Back in a New Exhibition in The New York Times
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Mill Creek is Family, and St. Louis History in The St. Louis American
"I had my own personal tour guide through the exhibit: my mother, Gwendolyn Jones Young. She showed me the street she grew up on and showed me the her house which was on Clark where she went to school + church.
It was wonderful to see her face light up as she walked down memory lane."
"Thank you for seeing us because most people don't."
"I rode a scooter"