Polly McKenna-Cress
With 28 years of leadership experience in the discipline of museum exhibition planning, development and design, Ms. McKenna-Cress has been dedicated to furthering the museum field through her involvement in the 25+ exhibitions she has managed and collaborated on. With extensive work experience in design firms, museums and over the past 14 years Chairing an academic department and directing an MFA program as an Associate Professor, Ms. McKenna-Cress has multiple vantage points. This provides her with both strategic and long views for how the field must to stay viable. She has managed teams, departments, budgets and projects both large and small with deep complexity and multiple stakeholders. She is co-author of the internationally published and recognized book, “Creating Exhibitions:Collaboration in Planning, Development, and Design of Interpretive Experiences (Wiley, 2013)” and was a Noyce Leadership Fellow, 2015. She is deeply dedicated to and teaches civic and socially responsive creative practice.
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