Exhibit Services & Eggs

Andy and Peg Granitto are retired from the Yakima Valley Museum, where they developed, designed, fabricated and installed exhibitions.

Andy has over 30 years experience in exhibition development, design, and production — following 10 years in carpentry, cabinet-making, and renovation contracting.
He has earned multiple degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder (Art History, Anthropology, and Museum Science).
Peg was his exhibit technician and assistant at Yakima Valley Museum for 15 years.

Happy Hen, LLC is our freelance exhibition design and consultation service.
While we had intended to do lots of freelance work after leaving YVM, we found that working on the ranch and feathering our nest in the barn is more enjoyable and fulfilling. But we do provide exhibit services.
We specialize in artifact mounts, models and dioramas, replicas, gallery installations, interpretive graphics and labels, and general consultation. (See images below.)

Contact Andy at andyhappyhen@gmail.com with inquiries.

Title image at top is a section of Land of Joy & Sorrow: Japanese Pioneers In the Yakima Valley at Yakima Valley Museum, 2010.

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…& Eggs?
If you live near Yakima and are interested in farm fresh eggs,
send an email to: peghappyhen@gmail.com and ask if the ladies are laying.

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Artifact mounts and installation at Maryhill Museum of Art (2018-2024)
Paintings by Alfredo Arreguin at Yakima Valley Museum, 2016
Restoration and revision of Water of Life — Yakima’s Millenium Plaza (original public artwork by Wen-Ti Tsen, 2000). 20th anniversary repairs, restoration, interpretive updates, and security improvements for the Millennium Foundation and City of Yakima, 2021-2022.
Work included replicas of artifacts and artwork (featured above is a replica of “Sankofa Bird” by Rojo Shinda).
Two panels from a traveling exhibit for the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute at CWU, 2008.
Cowboys On the Silver Screen at Yakima Valley Museum, 2011.
Visitor flow study and proposal for National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 2006
LaFramboise blacksmith shop diorama model at Yakima Valley Museum, 2017.
Church structure and tool miniatures made by Gary Brueggeman.
The Human Touch (RBC corporate art collection) at Yakima Valley Museum, 2008.
observation, texture, topography: abstract painting by Tom Hausken at Yakima Valley Museum, 2017.
Leo Adams: Art Life at Yakima Valley Museum, 2013.
Dick Elliott: Into the Infinite at Yakima Valley Museum, 2009
Rodin: Maryhill Comes to Yakima at Yakima Valley Museum, 1995.