Barbara Charles
Interpretive Planning, Art Direction
Charles majored in history, made theatre costumes professionally, and then worked four years at the Office of Charles & Ray Eames, where she researched and developed content for exhibitions. At S&C, Charles has led interpretive planning, graphics, and media coordination on all major projects. She continues this work as a consultant. Recently she helped the Liberation War Museum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, develop their core exhibition and she is currently consulting on an exhibition about the Spanish Empire and silver fleet.
Jared Arp
Project Design
Arp graduated cum laude in Industrial Design from Metropolitan State University, where he was also an instructor. With S&C, Arp was the project designer for the Islamic Gallery at Detroit Institute of Arts, the Art of East Asia Galleries at San Diego Museum of Art, and the Moravian Way of Health and Healing for Old Salem. He consulted in Bangladesh and continues to work with Charles when possible on compelling projects, such as the Spanish Empire and silver fleet exhibition. He is an environmental and museum designer at Stantec.
Robert Staples
Design Partner, emeritus
Staples started his design career at the Office of Charles & Ray Eames while studying industrial design at the University of Southern California. Sixteen years, the aluminum group, airport seating, and numerous exhibitions later, he established S&C with Barbara Fahs Charles in Washington, DC. Staples was the senior designer on all S&C major exhibitions until Arp joined the office. Staples’ grand finale was the design and engineering of the new “Louis Kahn demountable walls” at the Yale Center for British Art. He retired in 2018.