Ken Yellis, Principal

Project Development Services

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CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT INTERPRETIVE PLANNING PROGRAM PLANNING GRANT READINESS

GRANT PREPARATION EXHIBITIONS PUBLICATIONS MEDIA

EXPERIENCE

Director of Public Programs & Outreach, Touro Synagogue Foundation, 2008

Public Humanities Fellow, John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University, 2007

Vice President & Museum Director, International Tennis Hall of Fame, 2001 2006

Assistant Director for Public Programs, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1991 2001

Director of Public Programs, Plimoth Plantation, 1987 1990

Curator of Education 1978 1987, Associate Curator of Education1976 1978,

Office of Small Exhibits 1974 1976, NEH Museum Training Fellow, National Portrait Gallery, 1973 1974

EDUCATION

Masters, Public Administration, George Washington University

M.A., Ph.D. candidate (a.b.d.), History, The University of Rochester

BA, History, Antioch College

HISTORY EXHIBITIONS

Approximately 35 small exhibitions, National Portrait Gallery, 1973-1976

Portraits from The Americans: The Democratic Experience, National Portrait Gallery, 1974

Champions of American Sport, National Portrait Gallery, Chicago Historical Society, American Museum of Natural History, 1980-

1981 The Legacy of George Peabody: A Bicentenary Celebration, Yale Peabody Museum, 1995

Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Bicentennial, Yale Peabody Museum, 1999

O.C. Marsh: A Centennial Commemoration, Yale Peabody Museum, 1999

Opening Exhibition, Loeb Jr. Visitors Center at Touro Synagogue, 2008-2009

The Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present, and Future, Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at Building 92, 2011

Jews and the American Civil War (tentative title), Yeshiva University Museum & American Jewish Historical Society, February 2013

SCIENCE EXHIBITIONS

The Strangest Ancient Life on Earth?, Yale Peabody Museum, 1991

Mixed Blessings: The Complex Social Life of Cliff Swallows, Yale Peabody Museum, 1992

Anglers All: Humanity in Midstream, Yale Peabody Museum, 1992

Large As Life, Yale Peabody Museum, 1994

Lyme Disease: The Natural History of a Public Health Threat, Yale Peabody Museum, 1996

Brood II: Connecticut s 17-Year Magicicadas, Yale Peabody Museum, 1996

American Hunters, Yale Peabody Museum, 1998

Ripple Effects: An Exploration of a Watershed, Yale Peabody Museum, 1998

Designing Dinosaurs: Reconstructing the Fossil Record, Yale Peabody Museum, 1998

China s Feathered Dinosaurs, Yale Peabody Museum, 1999

The Muskrat & the Osprey: The Changing Quinnipiac Marsh, Yale Peabody Museum, 2001

ART EXHIBITIONS

Water, Earth, and Sky: The Art of J. Perry Wilson, Yale Peabody Museum, 1995

Children s Nature Books: Connecticut s Legacy, Yale Peabody Museum, 1999

A Passion for Tennis: Selections from the Ritzenberg Collection, US Open, 2004

Courting Favor: Tennis Posters from the Golden Age, US Open, ITHF, 2004

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Center of Cosmic Energy, Tufts University Gallery, 2007

ANTHROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY EXHIBITIONS

Design and World View: The Politics of Hopi Ceramics, Yale Peabody Museum, 1993

Peoples of the Luzon Mountains: Photographs by Eduardo Masferre, Yale Peabody Museum, 1995

People of the Lake & Forest: The Semelai of Tasek Bera, Yale Peabody Museum, 1996

Obia Oso: An Ndjuka Maroon Shrine from Suriname, Yale Peabody Museum, 1996

Fragments of the Sky: The Art of Amazonian Rites of Passage, Yale Peabody Museum, 1997

Spirit Images: The Lidz Collection of Southwest Pacific Art, Yale Peabody Museum, 1997

The Past Recovered: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1997

EGYPT: Antiquities from Above, Yale Peabody Museum, 1997

The Wild & The Tame: Dogs in Native America, Yale Peabody Museum, 1998

Detecting Cultures: An Episode in the Long Career of Irving (Ben) Rouse, Yale Peabody Museum, 2000

Hall of Native American Cultures, Yale Peabody Museum, 2000

The African Roots of the Amistad Rebellion: Masks of the Sacred Bush, Yale Peabody Museum, 2000

Peru: From Village to Empire, Yale Peabody Museum, 2001

The Search for Human Origins, Yale Peabody Museum, 2002

Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas, Yale Peabody Museum, 2002

TENNIS EXHIBITIONS (at the International Tennis Hall of Fame & US Open)

2002 Face to Face: Tennis Great Rivalries Matched Set: Pam Shriver & Mats Wilander Vive la France

The Funny Side of Tennis From the Information Research Center, 2002 Tony Trabert: American Champion

2003 In the Zone: Tennis Best at their Best Tins, Cans, & Cartons: Vintage Tennis Ball Containers Fran oise D rr: Mlle. Tennis

Extreme Tennis: Boris Becker Nancy Richey: Well Grounded Brian Tobin: International Tennis Player

2004 Grace under Pressure: Stefan Edberg & Steffi Graf Year of Wonders: Tennis in 1954 Forever Young: Dodo Cheney

Breaking Through: Althea Gibson Rebel of Many Causes: Gladys Heldman Founding Family: The Van Alen Legacy

Road Warrior: Jack Kramer & The Men s Pro Tour

2005 Passing Shots: Photographers Perspectives on Tennis The Origins of Tennis?

Pride & Passion: Jim Courier, Yannick Noah, and Jana Novotna

2006 Vive el Tenis! Style & Substance: Patrick Rafter and Gabriela Sabatini Renaissance Man: Gianni Clerici

The Masters California Boy: Ted Schroeder Head and Heart: Pancho Gonzalez

RECENT MAJOR GRANTS

2010 NEH Implementation, Interpreting America s Historic Places,

The Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present and Future, Brooklyn Navy Yard Archive, $350,000

2009 Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, Department of Education

In Pursuit of Freedom, Brooklyn Historical Society, $936,000

2009 Planning, Interpreting America s Historic Places, NEH

The Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present and Future, Brooklyn Navy Yard Archive, $40,000

2005 IMLS Museums for America, Guarding the Cultural Heritage of Tennis, International Tennis Hall of Fame, $60,000

2001 NEH, Public Programs

Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, $250,000

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Taking Control: Toward a Framework for Selecting Traveling Exhibitions, Exhibitionist, Spring 2012

From Insurgency to Re-Branding: Museum Education s Long, Strange Trip, Journal of Museum Education, Spring 2012

Concerning the Telling of Painful Tales: The Case of Masks of the Sacred Bush, Curator: The Museum Journal, Spring 2012

Odyssey of an Essay: Fred Wilson, PTSD and Me, Two Years Later, ARTES, November 2011

Ancient WaterFire on the Ganges, with Jo Yellis, Providence Journal, May 19, 2011

The Brooklyn Navy Yard and the National Purpose, Seaport Magazine, December/January/February 2010-2011

Brooklyn Navy Yard: Model for Quonset, with Jo Yellis, Providence Journal, October 7, 2010

Cueing the Visitor: The Museum Theater, Curator: The Museum Journal, Winter 2010

Fred Wilson, PTSD, & Me: Reflections on the History Wars, Curator: The Museum Journal, Fall 2009

Mt. St. Helens Overflowing with Fascination, Mystery, with Jo Yellis, Providence Journal, Sunday, May 15, 2005

Guarding the Heritage of Tennis, in Celebrating 50 Years, International Tennis Hall of Fame, 2004

China's Disappearing City, with Jo Yellis, Providence Journal, August 31, 2003

Paradise in Peril: Modernization threatens Lhasa, Tibet, with Jo Yellis, Providence Journal, April 13, 2003

Paradigms Shifted, in Transforming Practice, Museum Education Roundtable, Wash., DC, 2000

China s Feathered Dinosaurs, ed. & co-author, Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, 1999

Our Community Watershed, ed., Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, 1999

Spirit Images: The Lidz Collection of Southwest Pacific Art, Yale Peabody Museum, 1998

Fragments of the Sky: The Art of Amazonian Rites of Passage, editor, Yale Peabody Museum, 1997

Guidelines for the Development of Exhibits, with Barbara P. Moore, Peabody Museum, 1996

Water, Earth, and Sky: The Art of J. Perry Wilson, Discovery, V.25, n.2, 1995

Mining the Medium: Criticism and the Museum Educator, Exhibitionist, V.13, n.1 (1994)

Mesa Scenes: Notes From a Journey to the Fourth World, Discovery, V.24, n.1. (1993)

Demons of the Mind: Robotic Dinosaurs, Fossils, and Jurassic Park, with John H. Ostrom, Discovery, V.23, n.2 (1993)

Beyond the Blue Horizon: Public Education Looks Ahead, with Janet R. Sweeting, Discovery, V.23, n.2 (1993)

Cliff Swallows, Coloniality, and a Conversation, Discovery, V.23, n.2 (1993)

Izaak, Ernest, and Us: ANGLERS ALL Comes to the Peabody, Discovery, V.23, n.1 (1992)

Dying Interstate: World View & Living History at Plimoth Plantation, 1990 ALHFAM Annual, V. XIII, 1993

Real Time: The Theory & Practice of Living History, 1989 ALHFAM Annual, V.XII, 1992

Finding the Fun in Fundamentals: The Nearby History Series, The Public Historian, Winter 1991

Museum Education, in Michael S. Shapiro, ed., The Museum: A Reference Guide (Greenwood, 1990)

Special Events and Their Impact on Museums: The Eleven Commandments of Public Programs, 1988 ALHFAM Annual, V . XI, 1991

After the Ball is Over, Museum News, August 1987

Private Lives of Public Figures: The Nineteenth -Century Family Print, with Wendy Wick Reeves, National Portrait Gallery, 1986

Associate Editor, with Susan K. Nichols & Mary Alexander, Museum Education Anthology, MER, Washington, DC, 1984

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

Public Humanities Fellow, John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University, 2007

Associate Fellow, Pierson College, Yale University, 1991

Merget Distinguished Public Service Award; Public Administration Honor Society, George Washington University, 1987

Webb Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, 1983

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Newport World Heritage Committee, 2004-2011; Rhode Island Charter Commemorative Commission, 2012

Panelist, Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2006, 2007; New York State Council on the Arts, Museum Program, 1996 -1998

Board of Directors, American Association of Museums, 2001-2004

Panelist/reviewer, Informal Science Education Program, National Science Foundation, 2000 -2002

Peer Reviewer, Curator, Journal of Museum Management & Curatorship, ongoing

Surveyor, MAP and Accreditation programs, American Association of Museums, ongoing; MAP Advisory Committee, 1996-1998

Editor, Editor-in-Chief, Review Editor, Journal of Museum Education, 1975-1993; Chair, Museum Education Roundtable, 1979 -1981

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