Diane has been developing content for well over twenty years both through employment and freelance work. In the last fifteen+ years she has played a key role on several multi-million dollar capital interpretive projects. Her work takes her on a journey through a range of projects where “words matter,” from indoor exhibits to outdoor interpretive signage, and to the development or review of materials in the non-profit world.
Red Rock Creative
Diane launched Red Rock Creative to expand on what she does best – interpretive writing and planning. Working independently, or alongside exhibit design firms such as Panther Creative and Doug Munday Design, Diane works on projects across the country.
Projects past and present:
Malahat Skywalk
Sea to Sky Gondola
London Heritage Farm
Port of Prince Rupert
MONOVA Streetcar 153
Whytecliff Park (West Vancouver)
UBC Solar Array
Anchorage Central Transfer Station
Clayoquot Biosphere Centre
Cheakamus Centre
District of Lake Country Indigenous Cultural Centre & Nature Park
Pjila’si, at Nova Scotia Natural History Museum
McAbee Fossil Beds Heritage Site
Lloydminster Science & Cultural Centre
MONOVA, Digital Pathways Project & Echoes of Memory Exhibit
Tourism Squamish, Squamish Story/Adventure Centre
Squamish, Sp’akw’us Feather Park
Halkett Bay Marine Provincial Park
Furry Creek, UNESCO Átl’ḵa7tsem/Howe Sound Biosphere
Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site, Upper Battery & Lower Battery
Metro Vancouver Waste to Energy Facility
Niagara Peninsula Conservation Areas
Tumbler Ridge Museum, Digital Exhibit Plan Development
Inspiring Local Champions, Terry Fox exhibit at Port Coquitlam Community Centre
Heritage BC, Industrial Heritage Cultural Map Project
MALAHAT SKYWALK
SEA TO SKY GONDOLA
McABEE FOSSIL BEDS HERITAGE SITE
MONOVA STREETCAR 153
LONDON HERITAGE FARM
HALKETT BAY MARINE PROVINCIAL PARK
Content development support clients past and present include Heritage BC, Geoscience BC and the Howe Sound Biosphere Region Initiative Society.
Read samples of Diane’s writing here.
Britannia Mine Museum
From 2007 to 2021, Diane was employed at the Britannia Mine Museum, where she oversaw the department of Education & Collections which included social history, mining historical/modern, environmental science and mineralogy. Her department was responsible for permanent and temporary exhibits, interpretive tour and program planning/implementation and curatorial activities. Her biggest project was an award winning $14.7 million dollar redevelopment project in 2010. This project included new exhibits and site features, movie and building restoration. Diane was the Museum’s lead in content development, ensuring diligence of care from concept planning to final proofing and sign off.