Cabinet of Curiosity earns 2021 Henson Award
Cabinet is proud to announce we are one of a small handful of companies to receive the 2021 Henson Foundation award for new work.
Cabinet of Curiosity collaboration with the University of Chicago
Cabinet of Curiosity collaboration with the University of Chicago
Cabinet of Curiosity has been invited by the University of Chicago to develop a safe, interactive, campus-wide pageant celebrating the return of spring and the power of hope. Frank is developing project collaborations with Jimmy Grimes, Ellie Terrell, John Bell, Blair Thomas, Brandin Hurley, The University’s theatre and arts program, 100 students, plus.
The event includes larger than life masks, original poetry, and student composed music. Outdoors and COVID responsible.
"Public Facing"
“Public Facing”
In collaboration with the School of the Art Institute, Frank Maugeri worked with 11 students from around the world to imagine, design and hand make a mask which reflected their personal sense of safety and protection in 2020. Those Images were developed into posters and pasted throughout Chicago as a COVID safe art expression and public art campaign.
Frank Maugeri was invited to speak at the first annual Reimagine Cemetery Symposium
Frank Maugeri was invited to speak at the first annual Reimagine Cemetery Symposium
Frank Maugeri, Executive Director of Cabinet of Curiosity shares the importance of celebration and spectacle has in memorialization. Frank shares some of the events and purposes behind his work and how it can inspire new elements within a re-imagined cemetery design.