EPC benefits from a unique team of dedicated professionnals each of them, experts in complementary areas that contributes to our success and reputation: project managers, communication specialists, staging, storyboard, designers graphic artists illustrator, computer graphics, woodworkers and craftsmen, modelers, electrotechnicians, etc.
JULIE SHAFFER, Director of the Exhibition Production Centre
Julie Shaffer has been working at the Museum of Nature and Science for twenty five years. She has strong expertise in the popularization of science and in project management. She has created and coordinated many traveling science exhibitions, two of which are international co-productions. A number of these exhibitions have been awarded prizes for excellence in the field of environment and as well as for scientific communications. From 1999 to 2003, Julie was responsible for the planning, design and construction of the new museum facility, which won the Prix d’excellence from the Canadian Museums Association and the Gold Medal at Quebec’s Grand prix du tourisme festivities. She has been Executive director of the Scientific Production Center since 2003.
GILLES MCINNIS, Exhibition Production / Manufacturing
A cabinetmaker with over 20 years of experience in the field, Gilles has a broad spectrum of training. His expertise and practical experience are invaluable assets. In addition to university training in industrial design and architecture, he learned scenography at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montreal. Drawing on his extensive involvement in the cultural sector, he developed an approach that brings various types of art into prominence in the field of architecture. He has been running the EPC’s workshop for the past eight years and directs a team of 10 set-up technicians and craftsmen.
TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS TEAM
PIERRE HARVEY, Chief Development Officer
Pierre Pierre Harvey is in charge of the promotion of travelling exhibitions across the country and in the New England States across the border in the USA. He also oversees the link between sponsors and host institutions while facilitating special events and openings of exhibitions. Pierre also is in charge of attracting sponsors, private funding of tours and exhibitions.
MANON LEBEAU, Exhibition Tour Coordinator
Manon is in charge of the overall planning and logistics management of more than 20 travelling exhibitions in Canada, Europe and the USA. She also manages the international shipping aspects of exhibitions as well as customs and special certificates (CITES) needed for specific artifacts. Manon offers exceptional and extremely efficient services to her customers. She is well perceived by host institutions for a quick turnaround time, her professionalism and utmost efficiency.
RICHARD DUPUIS, LUC LAPOINTE, CHRISTIAN LESCOP, Set-up supervisors
Our three exhibition supervisors travel across the country and beyond to ensure proper installation and efficient dismantling of exhibitions. They also all possess expertise and can make on-site repairs insure proper maintenance of the travelling exhibitions. Expertise, flexibility and an attention to details are recognized qualities of our team of supervisors appreciated by host institutions.
THE PRODUCTION TEAM
MARIE-CLAUDE LETARTE, Project Manager
With a Master’s degree in history from the Université Laval in Quebec City, she benefits from more than sixteen years of scientific museology under her belt. She has worked in turn for the Museum of Civilization, the McCord Museum of Canadian History and the Sherbrooke Historical Society. Her experience covers documentary and iconographic research, writing and editing of exhibition texts as well as development of scripts and coordination of exhibitions. She has been in charge of projects at the EPC for twelve years. She has also been in charge of exhibition tour management between 2004 and 2006.
KATY CRÉPEAU, Scientific Research Specialist
Holding a Master’s degree in environmental studies a Bachelor’s degree in science and a teaching certificate, katy as the exceptional ability of being able to popularize scientific knowledge so that it becomes available and easy to grasp for all. She works on content research, storyboarding, writing texts and scenarios with the help of scientific committees. Full of imagination, she creates while putting herself in the visitor’s shoe so that the experience can be unique and memorable. She particularly likes using new technology as well as toys for kids which increases participation and interactivity.
CAROLINE HARVEY, Designer
Caroline specializes in traveling exhibition production and design. Her expertise in the areas of planning, design and layout, as well as her acute technical knowledge of materials is unique. She also brings exceptional artistic abilities to the team. Caroline designed over 40 exhibitions for EPC. Each of them, are unique, original with a strong emphasis on ambiance and visitor experience.
JOHANNE CÔTÉ, Graphic Designer
Johanne holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic communications as well as technical training in graphic arts. Johanne brings more than 10 years of experience in the private sector developing ads and advertizing visuals with the customer in mind. Always on the lookout for expanding her knowledge, Johanne is also pursuing studies in visual arts. Over the years, she has developed a fine understanding of the needs of customers. Her acute sense of artistic understanding and the choices that she makes, always perfectly adapt to the needs of the customer, the content and the design of a specific exhibition. Over the years she worked on more than 20 unique travelling exhibitions.
We owe our success to our multidiciplinary team of dedicated professionals providing creativity, rigor and flexibility!
