Team

Joe Ansel: Managing Principal

As an Assistant Director and Exhibit Shop Manager at the Exploratorium, Joe Ansel led and participated in the invention, design and fabrication of over 125 new, interactive science exhibits in the 1970s and 1980s. His work contributed substantially to the creation of the interactive exhibit genre and the science center movement itself.

AAI’s clients have included governments, municipalities, corporations, science centers, museums, design firms and two think tanks. We have advised on exhibitions, program areas, architecture, iconic elements, science center operations, the creative process and the design of products and environments for science centers and industry. We have created turnkey exhibitions from scratch for major projects.

Milton McClaskey: Project Director

Milton combines in-depth design and fabrication experience with formidable
scheduling, cost estimating, budgeting and project management experience. As founder of his own firm, Watermark Exhibits, Milton supplied casework and exhibits to major clients such as the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. In 1994, he moved into exhibition design and project management for Academy Studios Inc., developing and building exhibitions for Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Washington State History Museum, The Smithsonian Institution, the Columbus Center and others. In 1997 Milton was hired by Gyroscope Inc., where he successfully managed the $5 million budget for fabrication and installation of exhibits for Exploration Place, a dramatic science center in Wichita, Kansas which opened in April 2000.

The exhibitions for Exploration Place were completed on time and under budget by nearly $150,000. As Associate Director at AAI, he worked on phæno, the science center in Wolfsburg Germany. As in previous projects, one of his roles was the creation and ongoing management of the exhibition budget.

Milton is currently working on the budgeting, scheduling, contracting and management of the exhibit fabricators, and project management of Anchorage Museum in Alaska. He is also heavily involved in the exhibition planning and selection of exhibit content, visiting science centers throughout Europe and the US to review various approaches to interactive science and to seek out new, innovative and engaging exhibits.

Moe Sati Soloman: Design Director

As the Design Director at AAI, Moe Sati designs and integrates all exhibition elements into a seamless, cohesive and expressive environment.
Moe has over 15 years experience in industrial, environmental and spatial design.

His technical education in industrial design, coupled with his design experience, is aptly augmented by his extensive knowledge of fabrication, prototyping, model making skills and architectural design. Moe’s impressive visualization capabilities and presentation skills allow him to execute projects from the raw idea stage through to implementation and final installation. In the process, he essentially transforms conceptual thinking into reality.

He has created interactive exhibits for public spaces, undertaken master planning and designed traveling exhibits. Moe designed interactives exhibits for Denver Science and Space Museum, the San Mateo History Museum, the California State Automobile Association and the Atlanta Braves. Prior to joining the AAI team, he was a senior exhibit designer for the EcoTarium, an environmental science museum in Worcester, MA.

Associate Team Members

Gordon Linden

Gordon Linden brings a wealth of experience to Ansel Associates. He has worked with us as part of our evaluation team on several projects, most recently Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria, and on a feasibility study conducted for the University of California at Chico in 2003/4.

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