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ILE Fellows
Robert Bailey
Bob Bailey is Vice
President of AMS Planning & Research, based in their West Coast
office in Petaluma, CA. Bailey has been consulting for arts organizations
across North America for over twenty five years. He has an MBA in Arts
Management from York University in Toronto, where he subsequently served
as assistant director of that program.
In addition to
his consulting work, Bob has served as president of the Sonoma State
University Friends of the Performing Arts Center, president of the Board
of Directors of the California Confederation of the Arts, and was a
member of the Steering Committee of the California Impact of the Arts
Study.
Following on to
recent studies for performing arts centers in Phoenix, Bellevue, WA,
and the University of California-Davis, he has developed feasibility
studies for the National Underground Railroad Museum, Cheney-Cowles
History Museum in Spokane, WA, the Charles Schultz Museum in California,
and the Alaska Museum of Flight in Anchorage.
Bailey has worked
with ILE on the feasibility study for the Living Planet Aquarium in
Salt Lake City, UT, a management study of City Museum in St. Louis,
planning of the California State Agriculture Museum in Fresno, and the
strategic plan for the relocation of the Museum of History and Industry
in Seattle.
Clark Dodsworth
Clark Dodsworth
is a consultant specializing in high-tech strategic planning and product
development, which includes interface design, content and systems. His
first book, Digital Illusion: Entertaining the Future with High Technology,
is in its second printing. (This book was reviewed in ILR no. 33, p.
16). He recently produced a conference in Vienna, Austria on "Information
vs. Meaning," and does strategic planning for Philips Electronics
and web startups in intelligent interfaces. He works with SimEx developing
interactive museum exhibits--most recently for COSI Columbus--and collaborated
with Evans and Sutherland on the show concept and interactive design
for the Star Rider system in Wichita's Exploration Place.
His B.F.A. in Art
and Design is from the University of Illinois; his graduate study was
at the Art Institute of Chicago in computer graphics and video art.
Clark works closely
with ILE on the strategic introduction of high-tech programming into
the informal learning world, especially regarding intelligent visitor
interfaces and techniques to establish a continuous online relationship
with visitors. His insights into the immediate future of technology
and evolving strategies to move technologies from their commercial origins
to the informal education world serve ILE's clients well.
Jeff Kennedy
Jeff Kennedy is
the principal and owner of Jeff Kennedy Associates (JKA), an exceptional
exhibition design firm based in Somerville, MA. A graduate of Brown
University and the Rhode Island School of Design, Jeff began his museum
design career at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry until 1980.
He then moved on to two Boston-area design firms before starting Jeff
Kennedy Associates in 1983.
JKA has achieved
a very high reputation. It was awarded the AASLH State and Local History
Award for the "In Prayer and Protest" exhibition, and the
Dibner Award from the Society for History of Technology for the Boot
Cotton Mill installation. Jeff's book User-Friendly: Hands-On Exhibits
that Work is an ASTC best-seller. JKA has worked on history science,
natural history and corporate projects across North America. Clients
range from the Adler Planetarium to the German-American Cultural center
to JFK Health World to the JFK Library and Museum (different Kennedy)
to the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
Jeff has worked
with ILE on numerous projects; these include exhibition master plans
for the Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY; the Chicago Academy of Sciences,
IL; and the Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA. In addition,
Jeff and ILE have collaborated on exhibition plans for the National
Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg. MD; the North Carolina
Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC; and the Women's Health Project,
Maryland Science Center, Baltimore.
Dan Martin
Dan Martin is a
partner with Economics Research Associates (ERA), working out of their
Chicago office. His work includes many feasibility, re-positioning and
economic impact studies. His science center, art, history, and children's
museum, and aquarium clients are both in large metro areas and smaller
communities across the US. Through ERA, Mr. Martin and his partners
have assisted in the development of more than $30 billion in projects
over the firm's forty-year history.
Martin has a BS
from Catholic University in Washington, DC, and an MBA from the University
of Texas at Austin. He has written on economics and attractions for
Planning, Urban Land, Fun World and other publications and has spoken
at conferences given by ASTC, Lila Wallace Urban Parks Institute, the
Urban Land Institute, IAAPA, American Planning Association and others.
Dan works with
ILE on institutional feasibility studies, projects involving for-profit
family attractions, and assignments which require the international
research capabilities of ERA. He and ILE have collaborated on studies
for a new museum in Windsor, ON; on a redevelopment plan for the Detroit
Science Center, MI; a reinvigoration of the Utah State Fairpark, a new
insect attraction in New Orleans, an aquatic research and education
institute in the Hudson River Valley of New York, and a public television
installation at the Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, FL.
Robert Wilburn
Bob Wilburn is
President of the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation.
He was President and CEO of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia through
June 1999; prior to that he was President of Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh
(the umbrella organization for The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Carnegie
Museum of Natural History, The Carnegie Science Center, the Andy Warhol
Museum and The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh).
Wilburn holds a
BS from the Air Force Academy and a MA and Ph.D. from Princeton University.
After several years with the White House and Department of Defense,
he became a Vice President of the Chase Manhattan Bank. That was followed
by a four-year stint as President of Indiana University of Pennsylvania
and appointments as Pennsylvania's Secretary of Budget and Administration
and Secretary of Education before moving to Carnegie in 1984.
At Carnegie, Bob
was responsible for the incorporation of the Buhl Science Center and
its new facility into Carnegie, the creation of the Andy Warhol Museum,
and the successful completion of a $150 million capital campaign for
those new initiatives as well as major improvements to Carnegie's other
facilities. Colonial Williamsburg also saw the initiation of a capital
campaign, the completion of many infrastructure improvements, and the
initiation of creative and intellectually challenging new programming,
including bringing Black America solidly into the Williamsburg story.
Bob Wilburn and
Mac West worked together extensively in the mid-eighties when Mac was
Director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Bob was President
of Carnegie Institute. Bob is the newest of ILE's fellows.
Marilyn Zoidis
Marilyn provides
ILE with extensive experience in American history, as well as insight
into the workings of small museums.
Prior to moving
to Washington, DC, she was Executive Director of the Bangor (ME) Historical
Society from 1983 to 1987, and then the Freeport (ME) Historical Society
(1988 to 1990). These positions provided her with solid experiences
in small organizations as well as with opportunities to explore regional
and local history in creative and useful ways. She curated exhibitions
such as Commerce and Community: 200 Years of Freeport History; Allegro
Vivace: Bangor's Musical Heritage; and Made in Bangor: Economic Emergence
and Adaptation, 1834-1984. Marilyn has published numerous book reviews
on local history.
Marilyn holds a
BS from the University of Maine and an MA from Carnegie-Mellon University.
She now is a doctoral candidate in History at Carnegie-Mellon University
in Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on neighborhood history in turn-of-the-century
Pittsburgh. While working on her Ph.D., she currently works at the Smithsonian's
National Museum of American History, developing the exhibition and programming
which will be in place when the Star-Spangled Banner returns to public
view in 2002. This places her in the midst of the interpretation of
an incredible American icon and gives her opportunities to think very
deeply about the meaning of history, the appropriate interpretation(s)
of history, and how history plays out in communities across the US.
Marilyn was a paid
employee of ILE for most of 1998; we are pleased to have her rejoin
us as a Fellow.
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