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About John Styron

John Styron, Writer

Collaborating with producers, directors, designers and developers across the nation, I spend most of my days creating media for museums and corporate communications.

My museum exhibition work appears as signature museum orientation films, immersive environmental experiences, gallery videos, interactive learning stations, primary exhibition text and label copy.  My goal is always to bring complex subjects to life in clear, engaging language and presentations, accessible to general audiences, satisfying to scholars, and pleasing to institutions and funders.

From 400 million year old fossil beds (The Falls of the Ohio Visitors Center) to “March Madness” (NCAA Hall of Champions), from pre-historic Native American cultures (Dickson Mounds Museum) to modern politics (William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library), and from the artistic journey of Woody Guthrie (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services) to the commercial history of a corporate juggernaut (The World of Coca-Cola), I have brought a natural curiosity and love of a good story to a diversity of topics and institutions across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines.

My corporate communications work, of late, is taking the form of product introduction shows and high level, critical corporate messaging.  After many years away from corporate communications, I’ve had the good fortune of connecting with producers who work primarily for The Deere Corporation (John Deere farm, construction, landscape/turf care equipment … and much more), and for Heartland Payment Systems (a giant electronic payment processing company—credit card, gift card, payroll, etc.).

Born in Afton, Oklahoma, a registered member of the Cherokee Nation, a veteran of the United States Air Force, a graduate of the University of Missouri, Columbia, with postgraduate work in theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (before the fundamentalist take-over), I have, since 1994, lived and worked, and with my wife raised a family, in Granby, Missouri, the small rural town of my boyhood.

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Contact John

John Styron, Writer
418 N. Main Street
P.O. Box 290
Granby, MO 64844
Phone: 417.472.7117
Fax: 472.7158
Cell: 850.6940
jrstyron@jscomm.net

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Project/Client History

  • The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
  • The Falls of the Ohio Visitor’s Center, Clarksville, IN
  • The American Quarter Horse Heritage Center, Amarillo, TX (AQHA)
  • The World of Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA, and Las Vegas, NV
  • Lincoln’s New Salem, Petersburg, IL, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA)
  • FarmPark Visitors Center, Cleveland, OH
  • Dickson Mounds Museum, Havana, IL (Illinois State Museum)
  • Valentine Riverside, Richmond, VA
  • The College Football Hall of Fame, South Bend, IN
  • Stone Mountain Visitors Center, Stone Mountain, GA
  • The International Game Fish Association’s World Fishing Center, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
  • Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
  • NCAA Hall of Champions, Indianapolis
  • Center for Texas History, Austin
  • Lewis & Clark Visitor Center, Wood River, IL (IHPA)
  • Bishop Hill Historic Site, Bishop Hill, IL (IHPA)
  • Beyond Lewis & Clark: The Army Explores the West, Washington State Historical Society and The Center for Military History
  • Historic Fort Pitt, Pittsburgh, PA
  • The Ali Center, Louisville, KY
  • William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, AR
  • Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
  • The New World of Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA
  • Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, Louisville, KY
  • The USS Monitor Center, Newport News, VA
  • Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City (Oklahoma Historical Society)
  • Liberty Memorial/National World War I Museum, Kansas City, MO
  • Shangri La Botanical Gardens & Visitors Center, Orange, TX
  • Fort Osage, Kansas City, MO
  • Wildcat Glades Conservation and Audubon Center, Joplin, MO
  • Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitors Center, Gettysburg, PA
  • Monticello Visitors Center, Charlottesville, VA
  • KentuckyShow! Lousiville, KY
  • Tampa Bay History Center, Tampa, FL
  • National Museum of the U.S. Army
  • Arctic Study Center—The Smithsonian Institution, Anchorage Museum

 

  • Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES):
    • Before Freedom Came: African American Life in the Antebellum South
    • This Land is Your Land, The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie
    • The Spirit of Martin—The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • Lunch Box Memories
    • Key Ingredients: American Food Traditions
    • Close-Up in Black: American Film Posters
    • Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente
    • Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
    • 381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
    • Native Words, Native Warriors
    • Hatch Show Print: The Art of American Letterpress
    • Elvis at 21


Currently in Progress

  • United States Institute for Peace, Washington, D.C.
  • Falls of the Ohio Visitors Center, Jeffersonville, IN
  • Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH
  • The Kentucky Derby Museum


Corporate Client History

  • Brown-Forman Beverage Corp. (Marketers of wines and spirits, including brands such as Bolla Wines, Jack Daniels, Southern Comfort)
  • BellSouth
  • Capital Holding (now Providian)
  • Commonwealth Insurance
  • The Coca-Cola Company
  • Cummins Engines
  • Field Packing Company
  • General Electric
  • KFC
  • Hardee’s
  • Houchens Markets (large regional Kentucky grocery chain)
  • Humana
  • James N. Gray Construction Company (large-scale industrial facilities such as auto plants)
  • Navistar (makers of International trucks)
  • U.S. Corrections Corporation
  • Vencor
  • Virginia Port Authority
  • PowerBilt (golf club mfg, a division of Louisville Slugger)
  • The Mark Twain Award, Missouri Association of School Librarians
  • Astellas Pharma US
  • Heartland Payment Systems
  • Johnson Controls
  • Deere & Company

Publication Credits

“Bull’s Eye, MO,” a short story by John Styron, The Louisville Review, Spring 1991, University of Louisville.

Mercy Falls, by Beth Ann Gregory, edited by John Styron, Morris Publishing, Kearny, NE, 2003.

Elvis 1956, Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer, text edited by John Styron, published on the occasion of the Smithsonian traveling exhibition Elvis at 21, Welcome Books, New York, 2009.

Biography
Collaborating with producers, directors, designers and developers across the nation, I spend most of my days creating media for museums and corporate communications.

My museum exhibition work appears as signature museum orientation films, immersive environmental experiences, gallery videos, interactive learning stations, primary exhibition text and label copy. My goal is always to bring complex subjects to life in clear, engaging language and presentations, accessible to general audiences, satisfying to scholars, and pleasing to institutions and funders.

From 400 million year old fossil beds (The Falls of the Ohio Visitors Center) to “March Madness” (NCAA Hall of Champions), from pre-historic Native American cultures (Dickson Mounds Museum) to modern politics (William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library), and from the artistic journey of Woody Guthrie (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services) to the commercial history of a corporate juggernaut (The World of Coca-Cola), I have brought a natural curiosity and love of a good story to a diversity of topics and institutions across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines.

My corporate communications work, of late, is taking the form of product introduction shows and high level, critical corporate messaging. After many years away from corporate communications, I’ve had the good fortune of connecting with producers who work primarily for Deere & Company (John Deere agricultural, construction, landscape/turf care equipment … and much more), and for Heartland Payment Systems (a giant electronic payment processing company—credit card, gift card, payroll, etc.).

Born in Afton, Oklahoma, a registered member of the Cherokee Nation, a veteran of the United States Air Force, a graduate of the University of Missouri, Columbia, with postgraduate work in theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (before the fundamentalist take-over), I have for the past 15 years lived and worked, and with my wife raised a family, in Granby, Missouri, the small rural town of my boyhood.


Contact John:
John Styron, Writer
418 N. Main Street
P.O. Box 290
Granby, MO 64844
Phone: 417.472.7117
Fax: 472.7158
Cell: 850.6940
jrstyron@jscomm.net


The Tree House
John and his wife Beth also own and operate a hometown, small town, retail business—The Tree House.
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