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.