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SEMA knows what to do with a castle
In Campania, SEMA turns local knowledge into identities, exhibitions, websites, and reasons to visit. Its most revealing work begins with things a place already has.
PACESETTERS puts €3.77 million behind the art of climate action
A village, an arts festival and a former steel district are testing how creative work can help communities change. The European research project behind them wants useful business models to outlive the grant.
AM makes the past easier to search. The hard part is knowing what to ask.
From Shakespeare’s First Folios to gospel recordings, AM turns scattered archives into research collections. Its other business gives libraries the machinery to publish their own.
HistoryIT Turned Dusty Archives Into Searchable Assets - and Learned Scanning Was the Easy Part
Most organizations think digitizing history means buying a scanner. HistoryIT built a business around the expensive truth: the real work begins when someone must find, understand and use what was scanned.
How a Florida Archaeology Firm Became Big Energy's First Phone Call
SEARCH turned a federal compliance requirement into the largest cultural-resources firm in America - and helped find Shackleton's Endurance along the way.
In 1998, Three Engineers Bet the World Wanted India's Gods Delivered
Long before Amazon reached India, three brothers in Delhi were mailing hand-cast bronzes and out-of-print Sanskrit texts to strangers overseas. Twenty-five years on, Exotic India still pays its 10,000 artisans upfront - and ships to roughly 160 countries.
Callaway Digital Arts
Callaway Digital Arts - operating today as Callaway Arts & Entertainment - is a New York media and publishing house founded by Nicholas Callaway that designs and produces museum-quality illustrated books, luxury limited editions, award-winning children's apps, and immersive cultural experiences. The company is known for landmark titles including Madonna's Sex, The Beatles: Get Back, Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine, and a three-volume Sistine Chapel edition shot in gigapixel detail with the Vatican Museums.