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Traveling Exhibits Committee

Committee Chair – Ann Burns, amburns29@jacksonccb.com

Committee Members – Sandy Fulcher, Ed Gruenwald, Clay Steele, Angie Reed, Dawn Chapman, Hilary Johnson, Kelly Sonnichsen, Pam Holz, Pete Eyheralde, Reba Reddick, Lisa Anderson, Lisa Meusberger, Charlene Elyea, Tina Popson, Brad Freidhof , Anita Fischer, Beth Waage, Sondra Cabell, Barb Gigar, Chuck Ungs, Angela Bries, Julie Brazell, Pat Schlarbaun, Annette Whittrock, Holly Schulte

Committee Purpose: The purpose of the Traveling Exhibits Committee is to investigate sources of exhibits that can be brought to Iowa to be made available to IAN member sites for temporary display. The committee will also work to develop new exhibits on Iowa topics that will be available to IAN member sites on a rotating basis.

Committee Report March 2009

Committee Report – March 2007: The committee has been able to meet once since its informal beginnings at the Fall 2006 IAN workshop. (If you want bad weather, ask us to plan a committee meeting.)

At this meeting the group discussed existing small exhibits some counties already have that could be available to travel around the state, components that could be incorporated into such exhibits and existing exhibits available from outside sources (think mountain lion exhibit).

The committee also listed possible topics for exhibits to develop. The top three choices are:

Prairies/Cropland connections/plus cool stuff about prairie plants and critters
Mussels/Water Quality
Birds/Neotropicals/Habitat Issues/plus cool stuff about birds

Sandy Fulcher and Kelly Sonnichsen and others have been gathering information about existing exhibits that may be available for “rent”. The committee is also discussing logistical issues, insurance issues. Members have signed up for subcommittees such as grant writing funding resources; design, research, text writing, activity development, and logistics.

The committee will also act to pass along information about available traveling exhibits that individual IAN members may be interested in and want to investigate on their own.