Plans for a new place where kids can learn about sustainability and conservation will go forward before 2012 arrives. After listening to presentations in early November the West Windsor Environmental Commission has decided to make a recommendation to Town Council to hire Redmond-Jones & Associates as a special consultant to develop a concept design for the newly announced Environmental Education Exhibition at the Schenck Farmstead, 50 Southfield Road.
The recommendation will go before Council at its December 19 business session and the amount of the initial contract is not to exceed $5,000. It would be valid only through December 31.
According to Dan Dobromilsky, township landscape architect, a new contract would be drafted in January to retain Redmond-Jones’ services, utilizing a portion of the $150,000 Sustainable Jersey grant awarded to West Windsor last month (WW-P News, November 18). Based on telephone conversations with potential consultants, Dobromilsky brought up Redmond-Jones as a possibility at the November 10 meeting.
Environmental Commission Chairman Michael Hornsby stated that the targeted age group of the new exhibition would be fourth-graders (around nine years old) and older children.
Beth Redmond-Jones is the sole proprietor of Redmond-Jones & Associates, which is based in Swarthmore, Pa. She is on the board of NAME, the National Association for Museum Exhibition, and has worked as a consultant at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History since 2008. She holds an M.A. in museum studies from John F. Kennedy University as well as a B.A. in art
history from the University of New Hampshire.
Redmond-Jones & Associates has developed, designed, and managed exhibitions for museums, interpretive centers, zoos, and aquariums including the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the Alaska SeaLife Center, California Science Center, National Park Service, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
