Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum

“To Live and Breathe” Temporary Exhibit
May 19, 2023 through January 7, 2024

The exhibit’s design frames environmental justice as an everyday and intimate issue: gallery spaces are arranged around four lived-place themes — Where We Live, Where We Work, Where We Play, and Where We Pray — and use bright, inviting graphics, large photographic murals, and a mix of objects and oral-history quotations to center the voices of D.C. women of color. Interactive, hands-on stations (a community quilt, a kitchen-table “Table Talk” activity, and a design-your-park area) and a balanced color palette encourage participation and optimism while tackling serious subjects like pollution and land inequity, so visitors move between testimony, archival objects, and actionable interpretation rather than a single didactic narrative.

Completed as Studio Director and Project Executive with G&A Strategy & Design. Liza led all phases of the project from concept to installation. Liza also led a tour of the space with SEGD’s annual conference.