Website (2015–2020)
About
Launched on November 11, 2015, the MCA’s website rethinks what a museum website can do, providing visitors with greater access than ever before to contemporary art and culture. It offers extensive coverage of MCA exhibitions, collections, and events, as well as a broad spectrum of stories about our extended community of artists, audiences, and partnering organizations. It also serves as a rich archive of our past exhibitions and programs, and a demonstration of the long-term relationships that the MCA has forged with art communities and audiences in Chicago and throughout the world.
Credits
Credits
- Design, development, and content management system:
- Tomáš Celizna, assisted by Asger Behncke Jacobsen and Sebastian Ly Serena
- Accessibility consulting:
- Sina Bahram, Prime Access Consulting
The site showcases the visual identity developed for the museum by Linda van Deursen and Armand Mevis of the Dutch design firm Mevis en van Deursen and the MCA font designed by Karl Nawrot.
The MCA website was produced by the Design, Publishing, and New Media department at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in collaboration with the Rights and Images team. Former team members who have made key contributions to the site design, content, and functionality include Chief Content Officer Susan Chun, Design Director Dylan Fracareta, Director of Digital Media Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, Editor in Chief Lisa Meyerowitz, Web Content Manager and Editor Shauna Skalitzky, Web Content Manager and Editor Anne Walaszek, Associate Video Producer Bridget Reilly O’Carroll, Senior Designer Gabriel Melcher, Production Designer Dorothy Lin, Senior Editor Sheila Majumdar, Editor Lindsey Anderson, Editor Leah Froats, Manager of Planning and Production Joe Iverson, Manager of Planning and Production Lorenzo Conte, and Administrative Assistant Christina Stephens, along with Manager of Rights and Images Bonnie Rosenberg, Rights and Images Assistant Elyssa Lange, Rights and Images Assistant Analú Maria López, Rights and Images Assistant Lauren Reese, and Rights and Images Coordinator Jared Sheldon, as well as web developers Marty Spellerberg and Nathan White.
The site is the result of a collaboration with many members of the MCA staff and our extended community. We are grateful to current and former staff members and interns who have researched, created, and proofed content for the site, especially Amanda Abernathy, Matti Allison, Annie Breckenridge Barrett, Phill Cabeen, Michelle Clairmont, Gina Crowley, Radu David, Kamila Farshchi, Alex Field, Linsey Foster, Pat Fraser, Sarah Grosspietsch, Kristen Kaniewski, Nathan Keay, Martha Koch, Molly Laemle, Amy Louvier, Karsten Lund, Erin Matson, Diandra Miller, Peggy Papaioannou, Phongtorn Phongluantum, Adrienne Quint, Matthew Renton, Mary Richardson, Abraham Ritchie, Tola Ros, Lily Yates, and Steve Zirbel.
The design and production of the site is made possible in part by the Kovler Web Fund. The digitization and cataloguing of works from the MCA’s collection was supported by a grant from the US Institute of Museum and Library Services.