December Dinner Meeting

Topic: Columbus Zoo Master Plan

Speaker
Karen Huebel, Exhibit Design Manager
Planning and Design Department, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

Ms. Huebel has been in the zoo exhibit construction business for over 20 years. After volunteering as an exhibit artist at the Burnet Park Zoo in Syracuse, New York, she began working full time at the New York Zoological Society’s Bronx Zoo as an Exhibit Artist. In this capacity she worked as part of the design/fabrication team creating exhibits throughout the zoo including fabricating trees, mud banks, pools, painting murals, and many of the other basic elements of exhibit construction. She then joined the Toledo Zoological Gardens design team, where she gained extensive knowledge of graphics and interpretive design/fabrication.

In 1996 Ms. Huebel joined the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium’s Planning and Design Department and began overseeing the zoo exhibit construction during the past 12 year expansion. Currently she provides project management and on site art direction of the exhibit construction, in addition to coordinating and managing the graphics and interpretive design/fabrication for the capital projects at the zoo.

In addition, Ms. Huebel manages the exhibit design and exhibit technology of the zoo, coordinating the upgrades and maintenance of animal exhibits, graphics and interactive technology on zoo grounds.

Time
5:30 Registration
6:00 Dinner and Program

Place: Water’s Edge Pavilion at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

Menu: Buffet of Grilled Chicken or Vegetable Lasagna with salad, green bean medley, garlic mashed potatoes, dinner rolls and butter and dessert.

Cost: $25 Member and Guests ($20 life members and $15 students)
Cost includes dinner and parking (if not a zoo member - see below). You can pick up parking passes at River, 3000 Corporate Exchange Drive, Suite 400, Columbus, Ohio 43231 starting December 11, 2008. You will be responsible for admission to the zoo. (If you are a zoo member then the membership pays for parking and admission and you do not need a parking pass. Just simply use your membership card.) The meeting will be held at Water’s Edge Pavilion #2. This is located under the bridge, behind the carousel. Ask zoo personnel for directions.

Reservations: Please e-mail reservations to Melisa Wilson at mwilson@riverconsulting.com by Monday, December 15, 2008.