Services
Consulting services include research, interpretation, and exhibit content design.
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Selected Work
The Underground Railroad: Other Voices of Freedom
Havre de Grace Maritime Museum and Environmental Center, Havre De Grace, MD
Menare provided historian of note to identify primary documentation and serve as historical resource interpreter for exhibit on Havre De Grace’s role as a transportation hub on the Underground Railroad.
Forging Freedom
Peerless Rockville, Rockville Maryland
Menare served as research and concept design consultants to Peerless Rockville for exhibit on the Underground Railroad in Rockville, Maryland funded by the National Park’s Network to Freedom.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway
Dorchester and Caroline County, Maryland
Menare staff provided expertise for multiple working groups over a ten year period, helping draft interpretive plan for 125-mile scenic byway project focusing on sites and resources related to Harriet Tubman’s network on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Corridor plan management, interpretation and exhibit content design were included.
Color in Freedom: Journey Along the Underground Railroad
University of Maryland University College, College Park, Maryland
Consultant and presenter on artist Joseph Holston’s retrospective of works depicting slavery and the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
Firelight Films and Maryland Public Television
Menare provided on-camera expertise, from historian Anthony Cohen, for documentary focused on the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman.
The Underground Railroad Bicycle Route (UGRR)
Adventure Cycling Association of America, Buffalo, New York
Menare served on advisory board to conceptualize the design of a national bicycle trail interpreting the Underground Railroad, completing the inaugural tour from Buffalo, NY to St. Catherines, Ontario.
Capitol Tap and District Tap: Note for Note
Capitol Tap and District Tap, Washington, DC
Consultant on historical context, accuracy and storylines for dance performance depicting a letter sent through Tubman’s secret network.
Passage/way/s
Jessica Valoris, Rockville, Maryland
Content consultant for new visual art exhibit focused on fugitive slavery and the story of self-liberators through mixed media.
Certain Party or Parties Unknown
Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County
Consultant, content advisor for artist projections on buildings in downtown Rockville, Maryland depicting the three known lynching that occurred in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Oprah Winfrey Underground Railroad Immersion Experience
Oprah Winfrey & Harpo Productions, Chicago, Illinois
Menare conceived, scripted and directed immersive experience, to prepare Oprah Winfrey for her role in the film Beloved, which took place on a Maryland plantation in the summer of 1997.