Profile

After earning a Ph.D. in Education (University of Chicago), Alice joined the education staff at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. There she worked to help teachers use the museum’s resources more effectively, then chaired the Department of Education from 1973–1978 (as the Field’s first woman manager). From 1978–1982 she was director of the University of Oregon Museum of Natural History; from 1982–1988 she served as director of WISTEC (now The Science Factory), also in Eugene. In 1989, Alice joined Formations Inc., a Portland-based exhibit design/build firm with a national clientele. After 14 years as Senior Planner/Writer for Formations, she launched her own consulting business in September 2003. She is co-author, with Jeffrey Jane Flowers, of Exhibit Makeovers: A Do-It-Yourself Workbook for Small Museums (AltaMira Press, 2008).

Areas of expertise
Interpretive planning, including visioning, interpretive plans, and exhibit development; strategic planning; grantwriting and board development

Courses
AAD 408/508 Planning Interpretive Exhibits