Exhibit and Event Resources
Downloadable documents for exhibits, events, and marches, including signage and media communications.
The links below will help you find and use the materials.
Some documents may be better viewed and downloaded from a computer, rather than mobile.
Contact us at info@soulboxproject.org with any questions.
Materials You Can Print
Intro Video
Video: Introduction to the Soul Box Project
Put your exhibit into the national context for your participants or visitors. On a monitor in your space, play this informational video on loop.
How to Fold a Soul Box
Video and Flyer: How to Fold a Soul Box
If you are hosting a Soul Box-folding activity or including a table in your exhibit space, you may play the video in a loop or place a print-out into a plexi sign holder. Include paper cut to 8.5 x 8.5 square and optional felt markers, glue stick, or other materials to personalize Soul Boxes.
Print the step-by-step directions 3 times on card stock and tape together to make a convenient, hands-free, 3-sided table-top unit.
Local Partners
National Websites Collecting Valuable Information
- Gun Violence Archive is our source for all statistics on our website and signage.
- National Gun Violence Memorial is a good site for photos and information about victims when making Soul Boxes.
Soul Box Branches
- Look for a Branch in your area to coordinate activities or share materials.
Local Partners to Consider for Funding, Outreach, and Exhibit Spaces
- Your local Arts Council or Regional Arts Agency
- Chamber of Commerce
- Local hospital / public health / medical groups
- Faith-based organizations including churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques
- Local history, science, or art museums
- Public Library
- City Hall or County Courthouse
- Public or Private secondary schools
- Colleges and universities (art galleries, offices of social justice or spiritual life, student-led organizations, academic departments interested in public health, art, or social sciences)
- Chapters of national organizations focused on suicide prevention and gunfire issues
- Conferences of professional organizations intersecting with issues of social change, art and policy, social justice, mental health, public safety, firearm sales or safety
Press Release Template
Press Release TEMPLATE with “How to Distribute” Tips
Click on PDF Button in right column to view. A new window will pop-up. You can then choose to download and save the PDF. Customize the red text with your own information in Adobe Acrobat. The third page includes professional tips from Laura Evans Media on how to distribute for best results!
Logos
Soul Box Logos and Banners
For press conferences, talks and performances using Soul Boxes as a backdrop, place larger logos over panels behind the speaker (as pictured) so The Soul Box Project is clearly identified for news cameras.
Connect your event to this nationwide movement with these bold Soul Box Project graphics (below).
Please always include the Soul Box Project name and/or logo in your
-
- exhibits and events as printed signage
- social media posts: @SoulBoxProject / #SoulBoxProject
- website and online notices of your exhibit/event
- printed publications or notices
- communications with local media
Downloadable jpg: 667 x 667 px @96 dpi
Best printed at 8″ x 8″ or smaller
on letter-size paper
Downloadable PDF to print 16″ x 16″
Downloadable PDF to print 45″ x 45″
Downloadable SVG file (Vector – only use .svg files if you have an appropriate editor, like Adobe)
Downloadable jpg: 1379 x 601 px @229 dpi
Best printed at 16″ wide or smaller on legal- or tabloid-size paper
Downloadable PDF to print 24″ x 10.5″
Downloadable PDF to print 45″ x 20″
Downloadable SVG file (Vector – only use .svg files if you have an appropriate editor, like Adobe)
QR codes
QR codes to The Soul Box Project website
On your printed or electronic materials, these QR codes will take your participants directly to the Soul Box Project home page.
QR code link to SoulBoxProject.org (homepage)
Downloadable jpg (black): 1667 x 1667 px
Downloadable jpg (red): 370 x 370 px @143 dpi
Best printed at 6″ x 6″ or smaller on letter-size paper
Flyer Hand-out (English and Spanish)
Half-Sheet Informational Flyer for Visitors
Download and print double-sided on 8.5×11, then cut in half for visitors to take away.
Tip: Your local copy shop, like FedEx Office, can easily and economically print these flyers for you.
Email your copy shop this link:
https://soulboxproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/RESOURCES_Soul-Box-Half-Sheet-Flyer-to-print_2sided_May2023.pdf
For flyers in Spanish, email your copy shop this link:
https://soulboxproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RESOURCES_Soul-Box-Half-Sheet-Flyer-SPANISH-to-print-2-sided_June2023.pdf
Explanatory Signage
What is The Soul Box Project?
What do the number of Soul Boxes on view represent?
All exhibits and displays must address these questions.
Exhibit Signage – Ready to Print
This PDF contains 3 signs formatted@ 11 x 17.
1: What is The Soul Box Project
2: What does it mean
3: These 223 Soul Boxes represent daily gunfire injuries and deaths (including suicides) in the U.S.
If you are new to Soul Box, 223 is a good goal for a first display. For other quantities, see below.
Signage in Spanish. One page requires editing to describe the number of Soul Boxes on view and the number of gunfire injuries and deaths they represent in that particular state.
Exhibit Signage – Introduction to Your Exhibition or Display
Every display of Soul Boxes should tell visitors how many people are being represented by the Soul Boxes on view. This PDF contains a sign template that must be tailored to your specific needs. Arriving at the correct number requires some calculation to include an estimate of suicides, which must not be overlooked. Contact us at exhibit@SoulBoxProject.org to learn how to customize signage for your exhibit or event.
For Spanish, see PDF and DOC above.
Signage: Intro and statistics signage for U.S. (2 pages, 48″h x 12″ w)
Contact exhibit@SoulBoxProject.org for this graphic with text relevant to your area.
This signage pairing explains what 588 Soul Boxes (6 panels) represents and puts your display into the context of a nationwide movement. Send PDF to your local printer (such as FedEx Office) to print and mount on foam core backing. Hang these signs in line with Soul Box display panels or the “Add a Soul Box” graphic for a professional look. They are all 48″ high. Also good back-to-back on a garment rack, photo backdrop stand, or pipe & drape structure.
Add a Soul Box (printable board)
Signage: Add a Soul Box DIY panels
Download and print one or more of these blank panels on which visitors may mount their Soul Boxes in your exhibition. The height of these printable panels matches our loaned panels, but these can also be used alone for completely DIY exhibitions. Foam core (48″h x 13″ or 24″ w) is an ideal sign backing for pinning Boxes into the grid pattern–and easily removing them later. Alternatively, attach Soul Boxes with velcro or tape for a more permanent display. Laminating this board will make the board and the attached Boxes easily reusable.
How to Make Panels
Branches that adopted panels in 2023 received a Google doc spreadsheet of named Boxes on the panels and templates for creating signage specific to your state and number of Soul Boxes on display. If lost, contact exhibit@soulboxproject.org.
Replicate our panel design and process for greater durability and compatibility with existing panels. We are out of kits, but in July will post the complete materials source list.
Meanwhile, see how on this video.
Need more panels?
- Borrow completed panels from other Branches of The Soul Box Project
Materials list and recommended hanging structures
This document is a supply list with pictures and links
How-to-Make-a-Soul-Box-Panel Video
Diagram: How to Make Composition Frame to lay out Soul Boxes also contains mesh dimensions for both types of panels (with “hook” or “loop” Velcro).
How to Cut/Reinforce corners on mesh with “Hook” Velcro [0:55]. Mesh is pre-cut to these dimensions in your kit. “Hook” mesh in your kit comes with Velcro already attached & corners cut. Mesh with “Loop” Velcro does NOT need the corners cut out.
Diagram of raising/lowering panel for stitching & proper posture (drawing and link to QR codes). Includes Stitching Boxes already glued to mesh: How to raise & lower panel [0:25]
Named Soul Boxes spreadsheet – Contact us for a formatted spreadsheet to record the individuals memorialized on the named Soul Boxes you receive. The spreadsheet will also include statistical formulas specific to your state to aid in making the signage explaining what your number of Soul Boxes represent.
How to Hang Panels of Soul Boxes
Hanging Panels for Exhibit/Display:
Panel Hanging Tips and Links (including online sourcing)
Overview for “pipe & drape” structures [first 20 sec of 2:40]
Hide protruding Velcro with paper clips [stop at 0:25]
Video: How to Attach Hooks to Panels
If you are installing Soul Box Panels on “pipe and drape” structures or any horizontal bar, attaching hooks to the mesh so they are invisible and level involves just a small trick.
How to Make Strands
Strands
Add texture and depth to your exhibits. String some of your locally-made Soul Boxes in “Strands” or “Dangles.” To see more examples of how to display Soul Boxes, see our archive of year-by-year exhibits under Past Highlights.
How-to-Make-Strands Video
Note that any needle will work since going “straight through” with a long quilting needle can be problematic.
How to Make Backpacks
Video: How to Make a Backpack
Our 120-Soul Box “Backpacks” (about 5 lbs each) have been helpful for Wear Orange and March for Our Lives processions.
Signs for additional Backpacks can be downloaded (two versions, below) to print and laminate. Materials list available soon.
