Exhibit Sculpture & Fabrication

Sculptures, dioramas, and exhibit environments designed and built in our Toledo studio

Graphite is a builder-led studio. We're sculptors, painters, and fabricators, and we do everything under one roof. The same people who design your exhibit are the ones researching, sculpting, painting, and installing it.

We create exhibit environments for zoos, museums, and science centers: photorealistic animal sculptures, full-scale dioramas, scenic painting, and hands-on interactives. Every project starts with research and ends with installation.

Capabilities

Sculpture
& Fabrication

Sculpture
& Fabrication

Dioramas &
Scenic Environments

Hands-On
Interactives

Exhibit Design
& Installation

Donor Recognition
& Signage

Featured Project

Put-In-Bay Aquatic Visitor Center

Ohio Department of Natural Resources

We transformed a 1907 state fish hatchery on South Bass Island into a 10,000 sq ft aquatic education center. We designed and fabricated the full exhibit environment: Lake Erie ecology displays, a historic hatchery diorama, interactive species stations, and a live fish viewing tank. Put-in-Bay is one of three visitor centers we've designed and built for Ohio DNR.

$6.2M Project

Featured Project

Put-In-Bay Aquatic Visitor Center

Ohio Department of Natural Resources

We transformed a 1907 state fish hatchery on South Bass Island into a 10,000 sq ft aquatic education center. We designed and fabricated the full exhibit environment: Lake Erie ecology displays, a historic hatchery diorama, interactive species stations, and a live fish viewing tank. Put-in-Bay is one of three visitor centers we've designed and built for Ohio DNR.

$6.2M Project

Featured Project

Natural History Museum Interactives

Promedica Natural History Museum at the Toledo Zoo

Hands-on learning stations throughout the ProMedica Museum of Natural History at the Toledo Zoo. Visitors identify venomous snakes, explore an arthropod room, and press their hands against a glacier wall that's actually cold to the touch. The interactives are part of a three-year renovation where we also sculpted and painted nine large-scale dioramas depicting 13,000 years of northwest Ohio ecology.

$27M Museum Renovation

Featured Project

Natural History Museum Interactives

Promedica Natural History Museum at the Toledo Zoo

Hands-on learning stations throughout the ProMedica Museum of Natural History at the Toledo Zoo. Visitors identify venomous snakes, explore an arthropod room, and press their hands against a glacier wall that's actually cold to the touch. The interactives are part of a three-year renovation where we also sculpted and painted nine large-scale dioramas depicting 13,000 years of northwest Ohio ecology.

$27M Museum Renovation

Featured Project

Natural History Museum Interactives

Promedica Natural History Museum at the Toledo Zoo

Hands-on learning stations throughout the ProMedica Museum of Natural History at the Toledo Zoo. Visitors identify venomous snakes, explore an arthropod room, and press their hands against a glacier wall that's actually cold to the touch. The interactives are part of a three-year renovation where we also sculpted and painted nine large-scale dioramas depicting 13,000 years of northwest Ohio ecology.

$27M Museum Renovation

Featured Project

Aquarium

The Toledo Zoo

An 18-foot great white shark sculpture anchors the renovated aquarium entrance. Visitors operate an animated shark-bite mechanism to learn biomechanics, and a Pacific octopus sits at the touch tank. We also built the Adventure Trail outside the aquarium: sculptural penguins, crabs, and aquatic creatures at child scale lining the walkway.

$25M Aquarium Renovation

Featured Project

Aquarium

The Toledo Zoo

An 18-foot great white shark sculpture anchors the renovated aquarium entrance. Visitors operate an animated shark-bite mechanism to learn biomechanics, and a Pacific octopus sits at the touch tank. We also built the Adventure Trail outside the aquarium: sculptural penguins, crabs, and aquatic creatures at child scale lining the walkway.

$25M Aquarium Renovation

Doug Kampfer and Jeremy Link, Founders

The Studio

Everything we design, we build ourselves

Columbus Zoo

We founded Graphite in 2011 in a 4,200 square foot studio in Toledo's Warehouse District. Each of us has over 25 years of experience in sculpture and fabrication. Every member of our team is a maker, working with their hands.

That means every concept we design is buildable. No subcontractors, no hand-offs. We sculpt it, paint it, and install it ourselves. What you see in the scale model is what you get in the finished exhibit.

Clients include Toledo Zoo, Columbus Zoo, Indianapolis Zoo, Ohio DNR, Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Toledo Museum of Art, and Metroparks Toledo.

Doug Kampfer and Jeremy Link, Founders

Featured Project

Everything we design, we build ourselves

Columbus Zoo

We founded Graphite in 2011 in a 4,200 square foot studio in Toledo's Warehouse District. Each of us has over 25 years of experience in sculpture and fabrication. Every member of our team is a maker, working with their hands.

That means every concept we design is buildable. No subcontractors, no hand-offs. We sculpt it, paint it, and install it ourselves. What you see in the scale model is what you get in the finished exhibit.

Clients include Toledo Zoo, Columbus Zoo, Indianapolis Zoo, Ohio DNR, Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Toledo Museum of Art, and Metroparks Toledo.

Doug Kampfer and Jeremy Link, Founders

Featured Project

Everything we design, we build ourselves

Columbus Zoo

We founded Graphite in 2011 in a 4,200 square foot studio in Toledo's Warehouse District. Each of us has over 25 years of experience in sculpture and fabrication. Every member of our team is a maker, working with their hands.

That means every concept we design is buildable. No subcontractors, no hand-offs. We sculpt it, paint it, and install it ourselves. What you see in the scale model is what you get in the finished exhibit.

Clients include Toledo Zoo, Columbus Zoo, Indianapolis Zoo, Ohio DNR, Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Toledo Museum of Art, and Metroparks Toledo.

Let’s talk about your next project.

Whether you're renovating a gallery, building a new visitor center, or adding interactives to an existing space, we'd love to hear what you're planning.

See Our Work

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About Us

A Toledo studio that turns ideas into objects. Meet the team.

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Talk to Us

Reach out directly about your project

Jeremy Link
jeremy@graphitedandb.com
(419) 575-1012

Doug Kampfer
doug@graphitedandb.com
(419) 308-9626

Graphite Design + Build
15 N Huron Street
Toledo, Ohio 43604
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