Selected Projects
Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of Perception, Attention, and Memory
Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, 2024
As exhibition developer I was honored to work with exhibition curator Daniel Colón-Ramos, assistant curator April Pruitt, exhibition designers Isometric, my long-time friend and collaborator Camille Czerkowicz, and the amazing Peabody staff including Kailen Rogers and Chris Norris to bring a complex topic to life. The exhibition explores how our brains work through a humanistic lens — challenging our perceptions, re-framing our attention, and triggering our memories through hands-on interactives, animals, artifacts, and artwork.
Learn more on my blog here.
An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2025
Abbeville Press, 2024
An Almanac of New York City is back! Part guidebook, part planner, all love letter to NYC. The book is chock full of 365 events and historic anniversaries of all shapes and sizes, 52 all-new quotes about the city, NYC books and movies for every month, a new animal friend, and more! I hope it helps you plan 2025!
Yale Peabody Museum
New Haven, Connecticut, 2024 - ongoing
During this multi-year project, I assisted The Yale Peabody Museum with the the text panels and labels for their top-to-bottom renovation. As “text wrangler” my job was to help each gallery’s curatorial team write text that fit the museum’s format, while at the same time was accessible to general museum goers. Let’s just say it involved a lot of mispronouncing dinosaur names (so curators knew where to put pronunciation guides) and lots of “what do you mean by that?” questions from me. The renovated museum spans three floors and covers content from dinosaurs and ancient aquatic life to human evolution, anthropology, rocks and gemstones, history, and life sciences.
Watch Al Roker get a first look on the Today Show here.
Read about the renovation in the New York Times here.
Learn more and see more photos on my blog here.
People, Place, and Influence: The Collection at 100
Museum of the City of New York, 2023
As Consulting Curator, I contributed an institutional history of the Museum of the City of New York in celebration of the museum’s 100-year anniversary — and a deep dive into the complexities and contradictions at the heart of 100 years of exhibitions.
Read more on the blog here.
Learn about the exhibition at MCNY here.
See a report from NY1 here.
An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2024
Abbeville Press, 2023
An Almanac of New York City is back! Part guidebook, part planner, all love letter to NYC. The book is full of events of all shapes and sizes – from Jazz at Lincoln Center to the Bronx Night Market; fantastic quotes about the city, from Berenice Abbott to Joan Didion. Book and movies for every month, historical dates, and more! I hope it helps you plan 2024!
Buy the book at a local bookstore, Abbeville Press or Amazon.
We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC
National Women’s History Museum, at JFK Memorial Library, Washington, DC, 2023 - 2024
We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC is the first-ever exhibition created by the National Women’s History Museum. Located in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington DC — the only library designed by Mies van der Rohe — the exhibition explores Black Feminism through the lives of DC women — from Anna Julia Cooper to Eleanor Holmes Norton — who fought for equality for themselves, their communities, and women everywhere. As project manager and exhibition developer, I coordinated the exhibition working with exhibition designers Tessellate Studio, guest curators, and museum staff to create an one-of-a-kind experience for the library and museum visitors alike.
Winner of the MUSE Gold Award for Experiential and Immersive - Exhibition Experience, 2023
Read the review by Alexis P. Williams in the The Washington Post.
Read the column by Petula Dvorak in the The Washington Post.
Read the review by Marybeth Gasman in Forbes.
See me chat with Fox 5 DC’s Gwen Tolbart.
Learn about the exhibition and explore it online.
See more photos on my blog.
An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2023
Abbeville Press, 2022
An Almanac of New York City is back! Part guidebook, part planner, all love letter to NYC. The book is full of events of all shapes and sizes – from the New York City Ballet to Red Hook’s Barnacle Parade; fantastic quotes about the city, from Duke Ellington to Jay-Z; and delightful historic anniversaries. New for this year — a book and a movie for every month! I hope it helps you plan 2023!
Buy the book at Abbeville Press or Amazon.
See my interview with Joelle Garguilo on NBC Live.
Read my interview with Time Out New York.
Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2022—ongoing
Art and Ideals explores the role the arts played in how Kennedy lived, governed, and understood American democracy. Working with Ileen Sheppard Gallagher of ISG Productions and Abbott Miller of Pentagram, I wrote an exhibition script that wove together Kennedy’s support of the arts, the cold war, and civil rights.
Learn about the exhibition.
Read the review by Fritz Hahn in The Washington Post.
An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2022
Abbeville Press, 2021
An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2022 is part guidebook, part planner, all love letter to NYC. The book is full of events of all shapes and sizes – from the Met Opera to Brooklyn’s Atlantic Antic; fantastic quotes about the city, from Le Corbusier to Zadie Smith; and delightful historic anniversaries, from the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge to the birth of hip hop. As editor, I pulled together the events, dates, and quotes, and wrote blurbs for every month. I hope you keep it handy as 2022 unfolds!
Buy the book at Abbeville Press or Amazon.
Read my interview with Time Out New York.
Read about 10 events for 2022 in Untapped Cities.
In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait of a Baseball Legend
Museum of the City of New York, 2019
This exhibition, which I curated in collaboration with photography curator Sean Corcoran, celebrated the life and legacy of baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson through previously unpublished photographs from LOOK magazine taken in 1949 and 1953. My script told the story through Jackie’s own words, drawn from autobiographical articles he wrote for LOOK. Sopan Deb called it “a small yet powerful show” in the New York Times.
Read the review by Sopan Deb in the New York Times.
To Quench the Thirst of New Yorkers: The Croton Aqueduct at 175
Museum of the City of New York, 2017
Celebrating the anniversary of the Croton Aqueduct, a key piece of 19th-century infrastructure that brought fresh, clean drinking water to New York City, I curated an exhibition of drawings by a young engineer, Fayette B. Tower, and commissioned photographer Nathan Kensinger to reinterpret the same structures today. The artworks were keyed to a map of the aqueduct traced on the gallery floor.
Read the review by Sam Roberts in the New York Times.
New York at Its Core
Museum of the City of New York, 2016-present
This award-winning, critically acclaimed look at New York City’s history from 1609-today is presented on three galleries of the museum’s first floor and told through dynamic interactives, original artifacts, and the stories of individual New Yorkers. As Project Director, I coordinated three curatorial teams, a multi-million-dollar budget, multi-year schedule, and three key design consultants.
Read the review and a preview by Sam Roberts in the New York Times.
New York: Treasures of the Museum of the City of New York
Abbeville Press, 2020
Working with the museum’s entire collections department and author Steven H. Jaffe, in my role as Director of Publications I conceptualized and produced this Tiny Folio for Abbeville Press, featuring 250 highlights from the museum’s collection that tell New York’s monumental story in a bite-sized package.
Buy the book.
New York at Its Core: 400 Years of New York City History
Museum of the City of New York, 2017
I edited exhibition text to create the companion publication to the exhibition, a book Sam Roberts called “a perfect keepsake” in the New York Times. Lavishly illustrated with more than 400 artifacts and photographs, the book sold 2,500 copies in two years and went into a second printing in 2019.
Read the review by Sam Roberts in the New York Times.
Buy the book.
City/Game: Basketball in New York
Museum of the City of New York, 2020
For this project, I oversaw the exhibition catalog in my role as Director of Publications and served as project manager for the exhibition in my role as Senior Curatorial Associate. Working with editor William C. Rhoden, graphic designers We Should Do It All, 13 authors, many wonderful photographers, and co-publishers at Rizzoli, we brought the story of New York City’s unique basketball culture to life on the page. And, working with curator Lilly Tuttle, We Should Do It All, and the museum’s collection staff, we brought the excitement of the game into the gallery.
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The New Colossus
Stories, for the Museum of the City of New York Website, 2017
Noticing the prevalence of images of the Statue of Liberty and quotations from Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus” in protests against President Trump’s immigration policies, I researched and wrote a piece on the origins of the poem, and the meaning of the statue for generations of immigrants who came through New York harbor. An original manuscript of “The New Colossus” was on view at the museum at the time, and served as a basis for this exploration.
Read the story.