Cameran Schwarz

is a multidisciplinary communications designer and content editor.  

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Exhibitions at BAC


Before 2024, Brookline Arts Center’s gallery program was unknown to most of our neighbors and Greater Boston. 

We saw this as an opportunity to elevate our exhibitions and feature artists from across the USA and the globe, in doing so providing free access to challenging contemporary installations in the approachable context of a community arts center. 

Thanks to smart design, refreshed social campaign strategies, and targeted outreach efforts, we sold out theaters, packed our building to capacity, gained continuous coverage in multiple art publications, and vastly expanded our community.

Below are highlights from some of these exhibitions. Here is a table of contents.


To a Returning Cloud


Inas Halabi’s To a Returning Cloud explores the relationship between landscape, systems of power and colonialism’s ongoing effect on the natural and urban environments. This exhibition set visual precedents for all subsequent exhibition materials at BAC.

Key contributions: social content, digital marketing ideation, materials design (booklet, invitations, gallery interior), press and stakeholder engagement
Email me to talk about my non-design roles in this project. There are a lot of them.



Social Content Highlights




Announcement for the exhibition’s launch and opening reception.

(IG posts, Facebook posts)




Announcement for screening of Halabi’s film We No Longer Prefer Mountains.

(IG posts, Facebook posts, physical handouts)


BAC’s first exhibition booklet

Full exhibition text including gallery map and insert featuring the poem after which To a Returning Cloud was named.  

Read and view the full text here.

Exhibition Design

Our approach was to consider all corners of the small gallery room to breathe life into the exhibition, and draw directly from featured works to establish parallels with the artist’s world and the Brookline viewers’.

Red film applied to gallery windows to mirror the red tinted photos included in exhibition
Using the outdoors as an access point to the audio-based work “Hopscotch” available via QR code (pictured)



Lost Paintings


This exhibition gathers 53 artists across time and borders to reimagine the missing works of Maroun Tomb, a Palestinian-Lebanese artist, whose exhibition in Haifa was lost in 1947. 

Key contributions: social content (for curators), digital marketing ideation, web design, materials design (booklet, invitations, gallery interior), press and stakeholder engagement
Email me to talk about my non-design roles in this project. There are a lot of them.



Web Design  

A space for every artwork to shine. Breathable, easy navigation for all audience members with simplified access to more information.

For a complicated exhibition, clarity is key.


Exhibition Booklet

Collection of all featured artists’ biographies and commentaries on their work. Printed in English and Arabic.

Read and view the full text here.

Exhibtion Announcement

(IG posts, Facebook posts, directly sent to our network of organizations to share)



A Very Successful Reception

600+ guests, filling our building to capactity with a line down the block.

The power of knowing your audience. And, how and where to find them.



An Unkindness


Julia Hechtman’s An Unkindness examines relationships between humans, nature, and image-making exploring dynamics of permanence and impermanence.

Key contributions: social content, visual marketing and ideation, exhibition material design (booklet, invitations, gallery interior)
If you want to talk more about the non-visual stuff (Digital Marketing, Donor outreach, Event Planning) email me.




Announcement for the exhibition’s launch and opening reception.

(IG posts, Facebook posts, LinkedIn for sharing)




Social video for exhibition promotion

(IG stories, Facebook stories, sponsored/unsponsored)



Exhibition Invitation

(Mailed to specific recipients, later available at BAC)



Latent Content


Julia Underdah’s Latent Content explores the physical manifestations of emotions, and their relations to, existence in, and navigations of the “real” body in the world.

Key contributions: social content, graphic design, content writing, email outreach
Email me to talk about my non-design roles in this project. There are a lot of them.



Exhibition announcement and gallery activity

To increase the number of families that visited our gallery shows, we created an in-person BINGO seek-and-find activity that we posted on our socials to build excitement from kids and parents alike.

Physical copies of the game card were available in the gallery space.




Gallery Poetry Activity


Visitors were invited to draw pictures based on lines from Underdah’s poems, which were integral to the installation.

We used these drawings as user-generated content to promote BAC and the exhibition.