OLMSTED NOW Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Boston

September 2019–Present

Project lead to convene partners for Greater Boston’s 2022 bicentennial for Frederick Law Olmsted focused on the “fierce urgency of NOW.” On behalf of the Conservancy and the Olmsted National Historic Site, guide the project equity analysis with Grayscale Collaborative, public messaging with Studio Ummo, and monthly meetings of partners to develop learning resources and events that advance spatial justice and environmental justice. Recipient of the Conservationist of the Year Award.

Artist Interview Workshops Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA)

January 2019–Present

With an oral historian, guide curators, historians, conservators, and foundation directors on the practice of artist interviews. Have co-led workshops at the Museum of Modern Art (January 2019), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (January 2020) and during Covid-19 via Zoom (2020 – present). Previously served as a workshop speaker, with a focus on editing artist interviews at SF MoMA and Harvard University (January and June 2018).

Combahee’s Radical Call Boston Center for the Arts

December 2019–Present

For the BCA’s 50th anniversary, secured the programming partnership of Demita Frazier, co-founder of Boston’s Combahee River Collective (CRC), the Black socialist feminist scholar-activists who introduced the ideas of identity politics and intersectional identity known today. Guest Curator with Arielle Gray and Cierra Peters of a yearlong public art series across Boston’s neighborhoods: Combahee’s Radical Call: Black Feminisms (Re)Awaken Boston. Secured grants from Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and New England Foundation for the Arts for project support.

Exquisite Corpse Project School of the Museum of Fine Arts @ Tufts

August–November, 2020

Conceived and organized the commission of 10 unique Exquisite Corpse works on paper by 24 SMFA alum, faculty and friends to raise up to $30,000 for student scholarships at the SMFA at tufts. Organized related social media campaign and print publication.

Storefront Section Area Code Art Fair

August 1–31, 2020

As Guest Curator of Storefront, organized 11 free public storefront installations and collaboratively conceived the online/onsite commercial/ mutual-aid/donation-based structure of this inaugural fair during Covid-19, the first focused on contemporary art with ties to New England. The effort provided direct sales, paid commissions, and free live performances, screenings, exhibitions, and critical press for nearly 200 artists and presenting partners.

Issue 4: The Public Art Issue Boston Art Review Magazine

Available September 28, 2019

As Guest Editor-at-Large, inclusively solicited contributions and equitably reviewed issue content. Secured full sponsorship for print run. Organized/edited/published a Roundtable Discussion on Greater Boston’s public art past, present and future: “Individual Voices on Art at Its Most Public: A Roundtable Discussion”

The Contingent The Armory Show, New York

March 8–11, 2018

As Guest curator of the annual international art fair’s Platform section of large-scale public installations and commissions, organized The Contingent, a presentation of 15 projects whose meanings were contingent on the physical, historical, cultural and situational qualities of the site, and whose works assembled a contingent of parts into an irreducible whole.

Fog x FLO: Fujiko Nakaya on the Emerald Necklace Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Boston

August 11–October 31, 2018

Presented the artist’s first citywide exhibition of fog sculptures, marking 5 decades of her career with 5 new commissions across 5.5 miles of landmarked parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (FLO). Recipient of the AAMC 2019 Curatorial Award for Excellence.

Daniela Rivera: The Andes Inverted
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

March 4, 2017–February 25, 2018

Solo exhibition of new painting, video, and sound installation based on a unique site in Chile.

Permission to Be Global/Prácticas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
CiFO Foundation, Miami: December 4, 2013–February 23, 2014, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: March 18–July 16, 2014

Co-curator; exhibition of over eighty contemporary works and performances since 1960 by artists from across Latin America, organized in themes of power, borders, bodily presence, and loss. 

Jedediah Caesar: Soft Structures Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

December 17, 2011–April 1, 2012

Organized new site-responsive commissions for the artists first solo museum exhibition in Boston

Charles LeDray: workworkworkworkwork Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

July 16–October 17, 2010, and tour

Organized this major survey of the artist’s sculpture with new work, catalogue, and national tour.

Momentum 15: R.H. Quaytman Chapter 15, Exhibition Guide
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

November 18, 2009–March 28, 2010

Organized the artist’s first solo museum exhibition with presentation of new paintings.

Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

March 18–October 18, 2009

Developed this show with videos by Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, Phil Collins, Javier Téllez, and Artur Żmijewski that stage non-actors to explore the complex dynamics of social relationships.

Tara Donovan
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

October 10, 2008–January 4, 2009, and tour

Co-curator with Nicholas Baume; organized Donovan’s first museum survey of sculptures/installations, catalogue, and national tour

Momentum 11: Nicholas Hlobo, Vula zibhuqe
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

July 29–October 26, 2008

Commissioned drawings, installation, and performance for this South African artist’s first solo exhibition in a US museum.

Over Sight
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College

March 2005

Presented works by Roni Horn, Spencer Finch, and Kerry Tribe that reveal blind spots and uncertainties in our sight and memory. Programs included: Poetry Reading with John Ashbery, Bard faculty, and undergraduates of poems composed on exhibition themes.

Defying Distinction: Works from the Addison Collection 
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy

January–April 2002

Presented works that blur distinctions between painting, drawing, photography and sculpture, defying categorization. Artists included Irene Rice Perrera, Louise Nevelson, Martin Puryear, among others.