Podcast and News Features
ET Insights on Immersive Exhibits with Latoya Flowers
I was interviewed by Geoffrey Platt for LAVNCH [CODE] discussing my career as a Senior Multimedia Creative for the Field Museum and documentary filmmaker.
ABC 7 News Black History Month Feature
Interviewed by Chicago Entertainment Reporter, Hosea Sanders for ABC 7 News Black History Month segment highlighting my career as a local documentary filmmaker and multimedia producer.
“One of Flowers’ first tasks at the museum was a lofty one. The institution’s pride and joy, “SUE,” one of the world’s largest, most complete and best preserved T. rex skeletons, was being moved to a new room within the Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet exhibit, in which Flowers was to create an immersive experience. In late 2018, after a year and a half of research, prototyping and implementation, the museum rolled out Flowers’ production, which utilizes projection mapping to highlight specific bones, while a recorded narration covers topics such as how many bones in the skeleton are from the original fossil (90 percent), which ribs had been broken and healed, and how scientists were able to discover how SUE may have died (a jaw infection).” - Michelle Mackin, School of Visual Arts
Projected futures PODCAST
As a multimedia producer at the Field Museum in Chicago, Latoya Flowers creates a lot of media to support exhibits. But none is as big literally or figuratively as the projection mapped show she designed for “SUE,” the museum’s prized Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil. Listen to our interview exploring what it took to bring cutting-edge projection technology to a jurassic period artifact.
CBS 2 News carl cotton exhibition
Featured on CBS News giving a tour of the Carl Cotton Exhibition for the Field Museum Black History Month celebration.
FOX 32 NEWS - Still Searching documentary chronicles stories of Chicagos missing Black women and girls
Featured on FOX 32 News discussing the Still Searching Project and upcoming documentary.
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO-‘Still Searching’ Documentary Tells Stories Of Chicago’s Missing Black Women And Girls Through Art
Block Club Chicago featuring the Still Searching Project and documentary.
half rez 8 - guest speaker
Invited as a guest speaker for Half Rez, the biggest motion graphics event in the Midwest. I presented the creative process behind the SUE Experience light show. Half Rez is a conference designed to gather industry professionals from all over the globe to discuss and share techniques, technology, platforms, and workflows through inspiring keynote speakers and skill-building training sessions.
Crash Pad podcast
From Audio, Projection-Mapping, to Film Making. Latoya is a Senior Multimedia Creative at the Field Museum in Chicago, where she collaborates with exhibit designers, content developers, illustrators, motion graphic artists, lighting designers, and music composers to create immersive multimedia experiences for traveling and permanent exhibitions. She created a projection mapping installation for the Wild Color exhibition the SUE Experience, highlighting scientific discoveries on the world’s most complete T.rex skeleton. She’s currently directing and producing her first feature-length documentary Still Searching supported by Hulu, Kartemquin Films and Still I Rise Films.
WGN 9 NEWS -Chicago artists discuss telling stories of missing Black women and girls in Chicago
Featured on WGN News discussing the making of the Still Searching documentary.
TEDXQUINCY- STILL SEARCHING
In a powerful and moving piece for TEDxQuincy, Artist Damon Lamar Reed and filmmaker Latoya Charisse Flowers presented, “Still Searching: Chicago’s Missing Black Women and Girls.”
Their piece for TEDxQuincyStudio serves as a sizzle reel to the upcoming feature length documentary that follows Mr. Reed, a Chicago hip-hop artist and muralist, has been creating a vivid series of portraits titled “The Searching Project” of missing Black women and girls in the Chicagoland area for the past two decades. In the film, we’ll hear why he started painting these missing women and girls, his creative artistry and process behind each painting, and how he uses his artistic expression to keep their memories alive, in hopes of finding each missing victim. We’ll also hear about Ms. Flowers and her creative process for capturing the project and raising awareness around this important topic.
Field Museum Learning Connection Career Chat
Interviewed by the Field Museum Learning Connection team about my career as an Exhibition Media Producer. The career chat was live streamed to Chicago Public Schools.
NEC PROJECTORS BRING A DINOSAUR’S WORLD TO LIFE IN CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
Flowers added that while the media and content production team had about a year and a half of lead time to prototype, animate and storyboard, the projection mapping still proved to be tricky because of the nature of the specimen."Some of the bones were so thin – like the gastralia, or belly ribs – that it was a challenge to light them," she said. "We had a hard time getting the projection mapping to show up on these small, thin bones, and had to bring in additional lighting to highlight them." And, of course, everything had to be scientifically accurate.
Mood Boosting Museum Artifacts: Interview
CreativeStack’s Kirsten Nelson spoke with Latoya Flowers, Documentary Filmmaker and Senior Multimedia Creative with the Field Museum in Chicago, about the narrative and media design of the Wild Color exhibition.