Andrew Merriell & Associates Interpretive Planning & Design

At MIT, Andy's master's thesis in Architecture involved working with two different groups of teenagers at risk, helping them to design working and living spaces of their own. This work caught the interest of the Boston Children's Museum, which hired him on as a project designer, then put him in charge of the exhibition design department.

After seven years at the Children's Museum, Andy took a position with Gerard Hilferty & Associates, a prominent private exhibit design and museum planning firm located in Athens, Ohio. During his tenure there he became a Principal of the firm, and in 1996 moved west to establish Hilferty's second office in Santa Fe. In 2003 he established his own firm there, working out of a studio he designed for himself and his artist wife, Ramona Sakiestewa.

Andy has a long record of success as a professional planner, designer, and facilitator. Since 1973 he has managed more than seventy Museum planning and design projects.