Consultant Partners
The Public Humanities Clinic provides a list of consultants who have submitted qualifications and have agreed to a modest flat fee of $250. In many cases, the clinic will assume this initial fee on behalf of the institution.*
The consultant works in tandem with a public humanities student or a clinic staff member to provide three hours of onsite project evaluation.
The following independent consultants or companies have agreed to participate in the Public Humanities Clinic as consulting partners.
Abrams Associates Design, LLC
cliff@aaexhibits.com
Abrams Associates Design, LLC has extensive experience planning and designing interpretive exhibitions and graphics for corporations, cultural institutions, and individuals. For details of our approach and images of completed work, please see our website— www.aaexhibits.com. Several newer or ongoing projects are not listed. Please contact us for details. Personal and professional references, as well as a portfolio of work (in CD format) are available with compliments at your request.
www.aaexhibits.com
www.linkedin.com/in/cliffabrams
http://exhibitsandgraphics.blogspot.com/
Cliff Abrams
Abrams Associates Design, LLC
24 Dandy Drive
Cos Cob, CT 06807-2203
203-622-9115
Alexandra Rollins Associates
Alexandra@rollinsupton.com
Project Development, Start-up Operations, Interim Directorships for Art Collections, Historic Properties and Museums. Sustainable business practices. Institutional and resource strategic analysis, planning and policy. Operational and fiscal management. Governance. AAM accreditation management. Art collection analysis, development, management and stewardship. Marketing, writing, editing and public speaking. Exhibition and program design. Building community collaborations and connections. Grants oversight. Budget development, due diligence, legal and fiscal operations and planning.
Alexandra Rollins Associates
24 Goodrich Road
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-2005
617-524-6007
Carrie Brown, Ph.D., Consulting Curator
csb@carrie-brown.com
Carrie Brown is a writer and historian who always looks for the human story behind historic events. Her work as a consultant and curator draws upon twenty years’ experience as a museum professional and non-profit manager. Carrie has served as curator for many exhibitions that explore the connections between technological progress and cultural change, including the history of the bicycle, the automobile, the airplane, and the tools of precision manufacturing. Her most recent book, Rosie’s Mom, tells the story of women doing nontraditional work during the First World War. Current exhibition work includes projects for the upcoming Civil War Sesquicentennial.
www.carrie-brown.com
www.rosiesmom.com
Carrie Brown, Ph.D.
96 King Road
Etna, NH 03750
Phone: 603-643-4950
Erica Donnis, Independent historian and museum consultant
ericadonnis@burlingtontelecom.net
Erica Donnis is an independent historian and museum consultant with expertise in curatorial, collections management, and visitor service projects, including: research and interpretive writing for exhibitions and publications; development of interpretive programs and furnishings plans for historic sites; project management for interior restoration projects; collections policy development; assessments of collections management needs; management of visitor services systems; visitor surveys; and grant writing projects. Her specialties are curation of historic sites and house museums, interpretive and grant writing projects, primary source research, udience research, collections management, collections policy development, and archives management and processing work.
www.linkedin.com/in/ericadonnis
Erica contributes to the blog Museum Audience Insight, www.reachadvisors.typepad.com
Erica Donnis
Independent historian and museum consultant
112 Adams Street
Burlington, VT 05401
(802) 318-1658
Jeanne Koles Consulting
jeanne@Jeannekolesconsulting.com
I have over ten years of experience in the cultural sector, with a special passion for, knowledge of, and experience in publicity, marketing, and project management for art exhibitions and publications. I approach all projects with ardent attention to customer service, a solid understanding of how museums and cultural organizations (both for-profit and non-profit) operate, and, as a critical museum-goer and cultural consumer, a finger on what works and what does not. I can do small-scale, one-time projects or work with you on more long-term needs. If I can’t design it, write it, edit it, produce it, or imagine it myself, I know the people who can and I can assemble and manage a team for you at a fair price, and produce deliverables you will be excited about. Put my composure in fast-paced and complex environments, ability to work positively with others and productively on my own, my artistic sensibility and background, and my keen eye for detail and organization to work for you.
Jeanne Koles Consulting
1157 Franklin Street
Stoneham, MA 02180
617-429-7497
Julie Duncan Design
julie@julieduncandesign.com
Julie Duncan Design works closely with our clients to create compelling environmental graphics for museums, visitor centers, businesses and homes. Professional, reliable and experienced, we take your project from initial concept development to installation. We provide exhibit graphics, wayfinding and custom signage that support your mission and make a lasting impact on your audience.
www.julieduncandesign.com
617.821.2996
Linda Norris, Riverhill Partners
Linda@riverhillpartners.com
Linda works with museums, historic sites, and history organizations to connect compelling ideas with diverse audiences. Her work includes exhibition development, historic house interpretation, program development and evaluation. She’s headed and served as an exhibit team member for projects on topics as diverse as innovation, railroads, migrant farm workers, tourism and immigration. At historic sites, she has helped develop new interpretive efforts that engage visitors about unexplored aspects of a site’s history. Clients have included the Berkshire Museum, the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, the Hyde Collection and dozens of small and mid-sized museums and historical societies throughout the Northeast.
www.riverhillpartners.com
The Uncataloged Museum http://uncatalogedmuseum.blogspot.com
Linda Norris
Riverhill Partners
PO Box 232
Treadwell, NY 13846
607-829-3501
Madelyn Shaw, Curatorial and Museum Consulting
As a curatorial consultant and award-winning writer I can draw on more than 20 years of experience in art and history museums to help your organization develop innovative, multi-disciplinary exhibitions and programs that find new ways to interpret core collections, build community involvement, and inspire interest in cultural heritage. I have researched and developed projects on many facets of American cultural, economic, and social history, art, and design. In museum and collections management, I can offer assistance with collections inventory, assessment, database, and digitization projects, long range planning, policies & procedures, and Board training and orientation.
www.madelynshaw.com
mshaw02905@gmail.com
401-785-0797
Museum Research Associates
regispeople@juno.com
We have been a two-person consulting/contracting partnership since 1988, providing services in the areas of collection management and related records management, including the planning and conduct of inventory, cataloging, or relocation projects, and the training of institutional personnel and volunteers. Our clients have included private non-profit organizations as well as museums operated by government entities at the municipal, county, state and federal levels, from Maine to California and from Eastern Europe to Western Australia. We do not maintain a web site, but prefer to communicate directly with prospective clients via telephone, e-mail or “snail mail” in order to provide them with specific information regarding our experience in projects related to their particular needs and plans, and to provide referrals to individuals who are familiar with our work as current or former clients.
Museum Research Associates
11 Spring Street
Hallowell, ME 04347
207-395-4837
Musevue360
jennifer.eifrig@musevue360.com
Musevue360 is a two-woman consulting practice offering strategic planning, management consulting, collections care assistance and planning, technology strategies, and grantwriting services to nonprofits. We specialize in helping small museums and historical and heritage organizations to articulate their essential differences and come up with sound strategies for sustainability, and hopefully growth.
860-463-7722
Rena Zurofsky Consulting
rena@renazurofsky.com
Rena Zurofsky is an independent consultant with over twenty-five years of experience in museum management. She consults on strategic planning, governance, and business/retail planning. Rena has worked with art, history, house, natural history and children’s museums, and performing arts organizations. She also has served as interim director of a variety of museums. Her website contains a sample list of clients and full list of services, at www.renazurofsky.com
Rena Zurofsky
PO Box 1138
Stockbridge, MA 01262
413-298-6999
Seed Education Consulting
enevins@seed-ed.com
Seed Education Consulting develops educational programs and interpretive content for museums, historic sites, and cultural organizations. Elisabeth Nevins has spent 10 years helping users of all ages connect with content, collections, and stories in ways that engage, enlighten, and entertain. Seed/ed specializes in the areas of program development including curriculum-based teaching materials, on-site and in-school programs, teacher professional development, staff training and support materials; public programs including program evaluation, content development and project management, content development and project management for Web sites and exhibitions; interpretive planning, historical research and writing; and grant research and writing.
Elisabeth Nevins
Principal
78 Bowers Avenue
Malden MA 02148
617.390.5172
Terra Firma Northeast
Terra Firma Northeast is a cultural resource development firm committed to building civic depth and capacity through historic resources, art and stories. William Hosley, the firm’s principal, provides museums, educational institutions and municipalities with transformational strategies involving programming, exhibition development, visitor experience enhancements, marketing, heritage tourism and cultural resources planning, historic preservation and collection management. Hosley has more than 30 years work experience in museums and historic preservation. Former employers and affiliations include the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Historic Deerfield, Winterthur Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut Landmarks and the New Haven Museum where he served as executive director. Hosley founded Historic Hartford, Inc. and was the co-founder of the Greater Hartford Arts Council’s Arts & Heritage Action Partnership.
www.billhosley.com
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Terra Firma Associates
Old Abbe Rd.
Enfield, CT 06082
860-944-8349
*The contractor will provide services to third party individuals or organizations at the expense of the department (JNBC). These services include but are not limited to technical, professional, and creative advice and expertise. The JNBC’s involvement in the financial relationship between the contractor and the third party individual or organization is limited to the terms of this agreement. Any future financial or contractual arrangement between the contractor and third party is solely at the discretion of those parties. The JNBC and/or Brown University will not bear any financial responsibility beyond the terms of this agreement.