Screening is a printing process. The screen is a piece of fabric with the
text outlined like a stencil. The text is ink that's forced through the
letters onto the wall. It can be expensive and it's getting harder to find
true silkscreeners. It can be quite beautiful howeve removing the screen
printed ink involves solvents or repainting the wall. It isn't something
your host museums can do themselves. 

Often museums use vinyl letters adhered directly to a painted wall. Applying
vinyl letters takes some practice but anyone can learn to do it. You can
have a sign shop cut your text and set up text strips so you can do the
application. 

For a traveling exhibition going to small museums I recommend you have text
panels produced and avoid both silk screening and vinyl letter applications
unless you're pretty certain the host museums have both the blank painted
wall space for the text and the ability to apply it. 

Hope this helps
Diane Gutenkauf
Exhibit Works, Inc.
www.exhibitworks.com

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:28:00 -0400, SBC Museum <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Hello all--I am pulling together the Sweet Briar Museum's first traveling
>exhibition, and want to make sure that everything in the presentation looks
>very professional.  Generally we create labels by adhering the paper with the
>copy to mat board, and then cutting these on a beveled mat cutter.
>
>However, I'd like to look into the option of having the text screened onto the
>walls of the gallery where this exhibition will be displayed.  I have heard
>that some Kinko's locations and small print shops provide this service;
>in this
>day and age, there may even be Internet sites that can be used.
>
>Does anyone have any information on this?  And, how does the screened text
>adhere to the walls--is special training needed in this process?  If something
>that approximates the appearance of screened text is available, I'd like to
>hear about that as well.  Any guidance that the list can send my way would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank you in advance for your responses,
>Christian Carr
>--
>Christian Carr
>Director, Sweet Briar Museum
>Assistant Professor of Arts Management
>PO Box 144, Sweet Briar, VA 24595
>Phone: 434.381.6246 Fax: 434.381.6132
>(mailing address same as above)

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