Kathleen Hickey Barrie
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BARRIE PROJECTS
Kathleen Hickey Barrie, museum specialist, has a 30-year history of museum, civic, arts and cultural experiences in both for-profit and not-for-profit businesses. Since the creation of Barrie Projects in 2005, she has served as principal of the consulting firm which specializes in museum and cultural planning projects and their implementation.
Barrie previously served as vice president of exhibition development and design at The Malrite Company in Cleveland. Its major project was the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, which opened in 2002. Barrie led a talented team of diverse professionals and was responsible for research and content developed with a blue-ribbon committee of international intelligence experts, as well as acquisition of artifacts, text-writing, overall design integration of the Museum’s permanent exhibitions. She supervised design concepts and thematic integration of the Spy Museum retail components including the award-winning restaurant, Zola and Spy City Cafe. For the Museum Store, Barrie directed the merchandise line from existing products to new ones developed directly from museum content and ideas.
Barrie is the founding executive director of Cleveland Public Art (CPA) and served for 15 years there while the organization carried out its mission to convene artists and designers, civic leaders, decision-makers and interested citizens to plan and realize projects important to the livability of Northeast Ohio. This was a natural progression in Barrie’s career which began at the Cleveland Museum of Art where she worked for 15 years in museum education and exhibition development. Barrie is a recipient of a Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Design at Harvard University and numerous awards including the Cleveland Arts Prize for Distinguished Service to the Arts and Alumni Award of Excellence for the Arts and Humanities, Boston College.
For more information, visit www.barrieprojects.com or call 216.421.9750.
