Profile

  • F. RANDALL WEBSTER
  • Exhibits / Interior Design
  • Vice-President, Emerald Palms Design Group, Inc.

Randall’s experience includes 11 years with Walt Disney Imagineering California as Curator of Collections / Exhibits Producer. Randall has been involved in the creation of numerous exhibits in the Disney theme parks. He curated the 100 Years of Magic, One Man’s Dream attraction at the Disney-MGM Studios and Animales Fantasticos, Spirits in Wood for Epcot’s Mexico gallery in Florida. His experience also includes the 1996 Biennale for Architecture in Venice Italy exhibition Building a Dream. Randall was a consulting curator with the Canadian Centre for Architecture on their traveling exhibition The Architecture of Reassurance, Designing the Disney Theme Parks and with the Autry Museum of Western Heritage on their exhibit Walt Disney’s Wild West. Randall is the co-author of the book “Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real”.

More recently Randall was instrumental in the development, collections, and design of Action! An Adventure in MovieMaking, a traveling exhibit for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. He worked with the museum staff, and Hollywood entities in developing each exhibit, and selecting appropriate artifacts and images.

For Rockefeller Center’s new Top of the Rock project, Randall helped to create the Legacy Gallery, an extensive exhibit which tells the story of the development of Rockefeller Center from the Stock Market crash and the Great Depression, to its ultimate success as a cultural center of New York and the World. In the course of the project Randall developed close collaborative relationships with the Rockefeller Family Archives, the Radio City Archives, and the Museum of the City of New York.

Randall is currently working for Design Island with the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History on four new galleries that will be a part of their new Ricardo Legorreta designed 130,000 sq. ft. facility opening in 2009. As Design Manager for the project, Randall is responsible for overseeing the design, production and installation of The Energy Adventure, Lonestar Dinosaurs, the Cattleraiser’s Drive exhibit, and the Fort Worth Children’s Museum.