Education
William & Mary, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, Expected 2024
Williams College, Master of Arts, History of Art
Lake Forest College, Bachelor of Arts, Art History, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Professional Experience
Museums
Guest Curator, Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University, Virginia, 2020-Present
Graduate Collections Assistant, The Mariners’ Museum, Virginia, 2018-2019
Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Roswell Museum, New Mexico, 2013-2018
Curatorial Fellow, Shelburne Museum, Vermont, 2011-2013
McDermott Curatorial Intern, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, 2010-2011
Obering Family Curatorial Intern, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Wyoming, 2010
Academic
Course Instructor, AMST 470, Museums & Crisis, William & Mary, Fall 2022
Graduate Assistant, William & Mary/St. Andrews Joint Degree Programme, Office of Career Development and Professional Engagement in the Cohen Career Center, William & Mary, 2021-2022
Graduate Assistant, Equality Lab, William & Mary, 2020-2021
Teaching Assistant, American Studies 210, Utopia in the Americas, William & Mary, Fall 2019
Classroom Instructor, Keio/W&M Cross-Cultural Collaboration, William & Mary, Summer 2019
Teaching Assistant, Art History 101 and 102, Williams College, 2009-2010
Volunteer
Chair, Steering Committee, Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium, 2021-present
Editor, Online Exhibition Reviews, SECAC, 2021-present.
Mentor, Graduate Student Association DEI Mentoring Program, William & Mary, 2021-present
Graduate Student Representative, Advisory Board, Space Between Society, 2021-present
Researcher, Colonial Williamsburg, 2019
Newsletter Editor, New Mexico Association of Museums, 2017-2018
Southeast Representative, New Mexico Association of Museums, 2013-2015
All experience prior to 2010 available on request.
Select Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The Artist as Soldier: Howard Cook’s Self-Portrait in a Foxhole,” Arts 2020, 9, 37.
Catalogues
“ ‘This Ambition Which Haunts Me Every Moment’: The Multifaceted Career of Peter Hurd.” In Magical and Real: Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd, A Retrospective, Vol. 2, Peter Hurd. Edited by Kirsten M. Jensen, 1-21. Doylestown: James A. Michener Art Museum, 2018.
Power: New Works by David Emitt Adams. Exhibition brochure, Roswell Museum, 2017.
The Art of the Book. Exhibition brochure, Roswell Museum, 2016.
Signe Stuart: Fifteen. Exhibition catalogue, Roswell Museum, 2015.
“Cornelius Saftleven: College of Animals,” and “Raymond Jonson: Composition 7-Snow.” In Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection. Edited by Bonnie Pitman, 155, 253. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Essays
“Different Feathers: Reflections on John Abbot’s Summer Red Bird,” South Writ Large, Summer 2022, Different Feathers: Reflections on John Abbot’s Summer Red Bird | South Writ Large
“Giving a Good Impression: B.J.O. Nordfeldt’s Inscribed Etchings.” Art in Print 7, no. 2, 2017, 19-21.
“Eclectic Collecting: The Roswell Museum and Art Center’s Southwest.” Pelican Bomb, July 27, 2015. http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2015/eclectic-collecting-the-roswell-museum-and-art-centers-southwest.
“Whimsy: The Spirit of Play at Shelburne.” Antiques, July/August 2013, 132-134.
Work in Progress
“Exhibition Work: Exploring Labour in the Federal Community Art Center Project.” In Museum Exhibition Design: Histories and Futures, edited by Claire Wintle, Hajra Williams, and Kate Guy (Routledge), expected Spring 2023.
Select Scholarly Activities
Conferences and Conference panels Organized
“Reconsidering Art History through Access,” March 5, 2022, College Art Association Annual Conference, Annual Conference | Programs | CAA (collegeart.org).
Museums in Times of Crisis, March 26, 2021, virtual symposium co-organized with Laura Beltrán-Rubio, hosted by the William and Mary Equality Lab.
Workshops organized
“A Virtual Conferencing Primer,” February 19, 2021, virtual workshop hosted by the William and Mary Equality Lab.
In-Person and Virtual Conference Papers
“Designing and Teaching Museums & Crisis,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York Midtown Hilton, February 15-18, 2023, Annual Conference | Programs | CAA (collegeart.org)
“Reassessing Art Outreach Exhibitions,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting: The Roof is on Fire, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, November 3-6, 2022.
“Outreach Exhibitions as Institutional Labor,” Labor in the Space Between: 23rd Annual Conference of the Space Between Society, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, June 3-4, 2022.
“Mobile Exhibits and Digital Initiatives: Contextualizing Museum Engagement in the Pandemic,” T2M Annual Conference: Mobilities in Transition, November 3-5, 2021, Programme – T²M Conference 2021 (ciuhct.org).
“Exhibiting Ethnic Modernism: The Federal Art Project and Two Chinese American Artists,” Race and the Space Between: 22nd Annual Conference of the Space Between Society, June 1-5, 2021, https://app.socio.events/MTA3OTc/Overview/143180.
“Modern Impressions: Printmaking and the Federal Community Art Center Project Exhibition Program,” SECAC 2020, November 20-December 11, 2020, https://secac.secure-platform.com/a/organizations/main/home.
“Exhibition Work: Labor Networks in the Federal Community Art Center Project,” Museum Exhibition Design: Histories and Futures, Centre for Design History, University of Brighton, September 1-11, 2020, https://musex-design.org/.
“The Federal Community Art Center Project: Art Accessibility in the New Deal Era.” Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium First Annual Symposium, College of William and Mary, February 21, 2020.
“The Federal Community Art Center Project as Local and National Space,” Staging the Space Between: 21st Annual Conference of the Space Between Society, South Dakota State University, Brookings, May 31, 2019.
“Exhibiting the Collective: Roswell and the Federal Community Art Center Project,” Making History Public(s): Presenting the Collective, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 10, 2019.
“ ‘The Wonderful Light of the Southwest’: Discovery and Identity in Peter Hurd’s Landscapes,” Into the Sun: Light and Atmospherics of the American West, UC Irvine, April 27, 2017.
“Looking Back, Moving Forward: The Roswell Museum and Art Center’s WPA Archive,” The Mountain-Plains Museum Association Annual Conference, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Oklahoma City, October 26, 2016.
“Looking In: Peter Moran’s Pueblo Studies,” Branding the American West, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, March 4, 2016.
“ ‘A Solid Green Mess’: Howard Cook’s World War II Drawings,” XXVII Southwest Art History Conference, Mabel Dodge Luhan House Conference Center, Taos, October 15, 2015.
Conference appearances prior to 2015 available on request.
Invited Lectures
“Motion/Emotion: Exploring Affect from Automata to Robots,” Morris Museum, May 21, 2022.
“The Community Art Center Project in New Mexico: The New Deal in Action,” Zoom presentation with Aubrey Hobart, Taos Center for the Arts, October 14, 2020.
“The Multifaceted Career of Peter Hurd,” James A. Michener Art Museum, April 10, 2018; Roswell Museum, June 30, 2018.
“Cowboys and Aliens: Adventures in Curating,” Lake Forest College, April 14, 2016.
“ ‘Every Mood and Prismatic Variation’: Peter Hurd and New Mexico,” Building Creative Communities, La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, November 6, 2015.
Media Appearances
“The Community Art Center Project in New Mexico: The New Deal in Action,” Zoom presentation with Aubrey Hobart, Taos Center for the Arts, October 14, 2020.
Television interview, “Henriette Wyeth,” Colores, New Mexico PBS, Albuquerque, June 9, 2018.
Television interview, “Peter Hurd,” Colores, New Mexico PBS, Albuquerque, June 2, 2018.
“Museum Happenings,” Majestic Radio, Roswell, New Mexico, guest speaker, 2014-2018.
Fellowships and Awards
Walter J. Zable Graduate Fellowship, William & Mary, 2018-2020
Mountain-Plains Museum Association Current Research Paper Competition Winner, 2016
Susan Rollins Award for Museum Studies and Public History, Southwest Popular/American Popular Culture Association, 2015
Tuition Fellowship, Williams College, 2008-2010
Alex F. Mitchell Senior Prize in Art History, Lake Forest College, 2008
All-College Writing Contest Winner, Lake Forest College, 2008
All-College Writing Contest Winner, Lake Forest College, 2006
First-Year Writing Contest Winner, Lake Forest College, 2005
Presidential Scholarship, Lake Forest College, 2004-2008
Computer Skills
Database Programs
TMS
PastPerfect
Proficio
MIMSY
Graphic Design
Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Illustrator
Languages
German: Reading proficiency
Italian: Reading proficiency
French: Reading proficiency
Professional Affiliations
American Alliance of Museums
American Historical Association
Association of Historians of American Art
American Studies Association
Association of Print Scholars
College Art Association
The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference)
The Space Between Society
Virginia Association of Museums
Western History Association