Marcy Goodwin
Marcy Goodwin’s career as a museum planning consultant developed from her experience in three disciplines: museum administration, exhibition design and building project management. Her services cover a wide range of disciplines including facility, exhibition and administrative planning, as well as project organization, architect selection and long-range planning.

Prior to opening her consulting practice, she served as a museum administrator, a museum curator and a museum educator. She curated the exhibitions “Automobile and Culture” and “Louis I. Kahn, Architect” for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and served as a curator for two exhibitions for the San Diego Art Center. She served as Assistant Director of the Junior Arts Center in Barnsdall Park and as a museum educator at the Junior Arts Center and the Pasadena Art Museum. She taught design and color theory at Cal State Northridge and UCLA Extension from 1973 – 1977.

In the 1970s, she worked as a design professional in the development of large-scale exhibitions. At the Office of Charles and Ray Eames she was the project manager in charge of developing the “Inventions” exhibit at the IBM Exhibition Center, New York. Through the office of Picture Design Group, Santa Monica, she helped develop the “Economics” exhibition for the Mark Taper Hall of Finance at the California Museum of Science and Industry. She created a major exhibition on the history of Los Angeles for the office of Richard Saul Wurman and the Los Angeles Bicentennial Committee, and wrote and edited the first edition of the guidebook LA ACCESS for the same clients.

Ms. Goodwin is an authority on museum practice, museum facility design and art installations, and has lectured and directed seminars for the Association of Art Museum Directors (1988 and 1996), the Association of Art Museums, the Western Museum Association, Lloyd’s of London and the Ganminster Insurance Group, the Los Angeles Art Fair, Westweek (the Pacific Design Center), the Los Angeles Chapter of the AIA, the Chicago Arts Club, the Harvard University Art Museums, the University of Texas, Austin, Wellesley College, the J.B. Speed Art Museum, and the Salt Lake City Contemporary Arts Center.

She has developed space and administrative programs for museums throughout the United States in an independent consulting practice from 1978 to 1991. During this period, Ms. Goodwin directed building programs for such institutions as: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh and the Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose.

Ms. Goodwin left her private practice and joined Stegeman and Kastner, a construction planning and project management firm, in January 1991 and left in July 1995 to form M. Goodwin Associates, Inc. Since 1995 M. Goodwin Associates, Inc. has worked on numerous large-scale projects such as the McNay Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, the International Center of Photography, New York, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Seattle Art Museum.

Ms. Goodwin has consulted on the building programs for many universities and schools including: the Yale University Art Gallery, University of Utah, the University of Texas at Austin Jack S. Blanton Art Museum, the University of Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, Southern Methodist University Meadows Museum, the South Bronx Academy of Art, Wellesley College Davis Art Center, Scripps College, the University of California, Riverside, the University of New Mexico, the University of Iowa, the Albuquerque Academy and the Duke University Nasher Art Museum. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Chouinard Art School (later incorporated into the California Institute of the Arts), and graduated from the Claremont Graduate School with a Master of Fine Arts degree. She is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders.

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