Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center

Overview

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center is a National Historic Landmark in The Springs, NY — the former home and studio of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. The site is a working museum, archive, and home for new exhibitions that bring the artists' legacy into dialogue with contemporary work.

They needed a new digital platform that could carry the weight of the institution — calm, considered, editorial — while remaining flexible enough for a small team to manage exhibitions, events, and editorial programming themselves.

Built as part of Made by Sea. My role: Web Designer & Developer.

Why This Project Mattered

Pollock-Krasner was the first project where we built a complete pipeline from design system to production. Figma library, DatoCMS schema, and component library all designed around the same reusable building blocks. The client can now build new pages, lay out exhibitions, and evolve the site's editorial flow without touching code.

That model — design system as a first-class deliverable, not an afterthought — has shaped how every Made by Sea project has worked since.

What I Built

• A visitor-facing site for the museum, with editorial pages, exhibition archives, and event listings.
• A Figma-to-production design system with reusable layout blocks.
• A DatoCMS model where each page is composed of the same modular blocks (hero, editorial text, image grids, gallery, event listings), enabling client self-service.
• A content structure for exhibitions designed to extend gracefully as the museum's program grows.

Stack

Next.js, React, TypeScript, DatoCMS, Figma.

Outcome

The site has been in active use by the museum since launch, and the editorial team manages all content independently. The design system this project produced became the template for client-managed work across the studio.