For over fifteen years I have created a range of digital content with cultural heritage, museums, and artefact studies as central themes. I am driven to seek out new ways of sparking curiosity and empathy in others by means of digital storytelling, approachable discourse, and relevant mediums.

Digital Content Creator & Social Media Strategist for the Institute for Digital Culture

I am currently on contract in this role and responsible for writing social media posts and website content, designing branding material, creating graphic designs, shooting photos and videos for events, and managing the online content strategy for the IDC. Institute for Digital Culture LinkedIn.

My ongoing digital culture content project is the PhDShelbyAdventures Instagram and Youtube accounts where I create video and photography content focused on telling human-centred, emotive stories involving museums and heritage sites. A monthly average of 32,000 accounts are reached for the Instagram account @PhDShelbyAdventures.

I create digital art ranging from fine art portraits, technical archaeological drawings, to product designs.

Website Design

Conception, development, and design of a website for Tryon Creek State Park’s accessible ‘Trillium Trail’. A project designed by myself and a group of Portland State University students with the interest of generating further inclusivity for those with accessibility needs visiting the nature area. The project also includes information on the Native American tribal knowledge and use of the area.

Redesign and page formatting on Chinookstory.org, a Portland State University and Chinook Nation collaboration. The website provides accurate and accessible humanities content to students and the public to facilitate understanding of regional Native communities through Native and non-Native epistemologies.

Redesign and page formatting on the ‘Project Ancient Tin’ website, a Durham Universty Archaeology Department research project.

In 2007 I began a Flickr account where I shared my museum photography with the aims of making photographs of, and information on, museum objects more accessible to the public. During my own reseach I often found it difficult to locate high quality images of objects for my studies. My images have been requested for use in historical themed games, personal research projects, and more. My largest album of photgraphs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC has reached nearly 5,000 viewers.

During my undergraduate studies I created a Tumblr to showcase museum artefacts to make them more accessible to those outside of academia and the heritage sector.