CRawlywood Insect collection
Where Art and Science Take Flight The CRAWLYWOOD Insect Collection is the beating heart of OGEF. Created to showcase the astonishing diversty and beauty of the insect world, CRAWLYWOOD combines natural history with design and storytelling to spark a sense of awe.
Through touring exhibitions, museum collaboration, and school vvisits, the CRAWLYWOOD Collection seeks to inspire future biologists, artists, and inventors by showing that even the smallest life forms can lead to big ideas.
TRAVELING Prospectus
TOURING INFORMATION Collector and Curator Oliver Greer Exhibition: CRAWLYWOOD
CRAWLYWOOD is Oliver Greer’s astonishing collection of 2,400 mounted insects, arachnids and arthropods from around the world hat, after 10 years of local display in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, is ready to make its national debut. I has grown from an amateur hobby into what may be the most spectacularly mounted and diverse privately owned insect collection to be found anywhere, rivaling and many museum collections. The specimens are beautifully mounted and arranged like no other in the world.
In addition to unlimited educational value, the CRAWLYWOOD collection promotes awareness of the world all around us, and it makes everyone who wees it realize that this world is full of natural beauty while simultaneously enabling everyone to experience and appreciate that beauty.
The CRAWLYWOOD collection includes expertly mounted specimens from all major insect and arachnid families – featuring 80 of the world’s giant species – spectacularly arranged in 30 custom-made display cases, with placards briefly identifying each display case
EXHIBITION FEES CRAWLYWOOD Collection:
$12,000 for a three-month exhibition (see Exhibition Agreement for terms).
$25,000 for a six-month exhibition (see Exhibition Agreement for terms)
LIST OF WORKS:
30 display cases 32 identification placards 03 sets of support blocks for large display cases 05 large information placards 03 publicity placards
EXHIBITION REQUIREMENTS;
Environmental
- Low Humidity, dry display area
- No direct sunlight
- No direct incandescent lighting
- Indirect LED or indirect fluorescent lighting only
SIZE
- 1800 sq ft wall space minimum requirement
- 27 of the 30 display cases are wall hanging
- 3 largest display cases must lean against the wall or in corners,
Oliver greer: creator & Curator’s statement
“CRAWLYWOOD began humbly with the discovery of a dead wasp in my back yard when I was ten years old, which led to an amateur interest in all kinds of insects, and quickly took on a life of its own. The hobby of entomology itself invited me to take this journey, which I did with the same creative impulse, driving passion and sheer enthusiasm that the late, great Buddy Rich brought to his awesome drumming – CRAWLYWOOD is my “West Side Story”.
CRAWLYWOOD has become a window to the world because it represents every major insect and arachnid group from all the tropical regions of the Earth.
More importantly, it has taught me that the entire race of insects are the caretakers of our global environment. Ants don’t hijack goliath beetles and crash them into termite mounds because of sociopolitical and economic differences, bees communicate with pheromones and physical interaction instead of texting, and spiders don’t look for approval by posting on social media their newest silk web. The thousands of quadrillions of insects and arachnids on the planet peacefully, selflessly and productively coexist because that’s what they instinctively know they have to do to survive and to preserve the planet, and that is what ever person in this world needs to think about and do, too.
It is a privelge to share the creative impulse and passion of my CRAWLYWOOD collection with everyone.
COMING SOON:
OGEF’s Crawlywood On-The Road program brings the wonder of insects and plants directly to schools across thee country. Through an immersive day of interactive presentations and hands-on workshops, students explore how insects, plants, and people are connected ecologically, culturally, and creatively.
using spcemens from the Crawlywood Insect collection alongside region-specific insects and plants, students proctice obseration, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving. Activities blend science, art, and design, inbiting learners to see nature as both teacher and design partner. Each visit is customized to the local enbiroment and aligned with grade-appropriate learning goals, leaving teachers with follow-up materials to continue the learning long after the visit ends.
–High-resolution image galleries of rare specimens
–Interactive educational material for classrooms
–crawlywood.com— a digital home for the collection, educational content and official merchandise