Dr. Kerry Joels<\/p>\n
Chief Creative Officer<\/p>\n
Dr. Joels has a background in academia and the museum world. He has been involved in creating multi-media curriculum, instructional online and video content, public exhibitions, and digital media for more than three decades.<\/p>\n
As founding Director of the Education Division at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Air and\u00a0Space\u00a0Museum\u00a0he created educational programs, exhibits, a media center, a Center for Live Demonstrations, video and media programming, and launched the prototype of Air and Space Magazine.\u00a0\u00a0He also headed the museum\u2019s publication program and research program and was responsible for directing multi-million dollar museum visitor research studies including behavioral, demographic, and program effectiveness studies. He also initiated the museum\u2019s outreach to underserved populations including multi-cultural orientation video and materials, docent training, and public outreach.<\/p>\n
Dr. Joels designed and scripted the original Oklahoma Air and Space Museum at the Kirkpatrick Center, including the physical master plan, and has created the concept scripting for the American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City.\u00a0 He is curator for the Kingston Trio Legacy Project creating the concept and label scripts and media for several traveling Trio exhibitions and units in Paris, Liverpool, the Woody Guthrie Center, the American Banjo Museum and the Grammy Museum. He completed a mini-exhibit for the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum in South Carolina about Joe\u2019s legacy and impact on popular culture in Fall, 2014. In 2019 Dr. Joels scripted, designed and supervised creation of the Apollo 50th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary exhibit at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Kerry Joels Chief Creative Officer Dr. Joels has a background in academia and the museum world. He has been involved in creating multi-media curriculum, instructional online and video content, public exhibitions, and digital media for more than three decades. As founding Director of the Education Division at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Air and\u00a0Space\u00a0Museum\u00a0he created educational…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10333,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/10333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}