Based in Philadelphia, I am an independent curator of contemporary art with a focus on commissioning new work for installation-based projects.  I previously served as the curator and director of exhibitions at the Philadelphia Art Alliance where I was responsible for implementing and directing a rotating visual arts exhibitions schedule in the six main exhibition galleries in the historic Wetherill Mansion. I have extensive experience researching both historical and contemporary issues relevant to planning large‐scale exhibitions; writing, editing, and designing catalogs, brochures, and other publications; and implementing current practices in exhibition design.

During this time, I gained considerable experience working directly with artists in the development of newly commissioned work for the galleries and subsequently directed the design and installation of their work. One notable example is a project that I both curated and was awarded both a planning and implementation grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for a major two year project entitled Let Me Tell You About a Dream I Had by the artist collective The Miss Rockaway Armada. The the multi-venue project included 44 members of the Armada who assembled in Philadelphia from around the US and Europe to create a flotilla composed of several sculptural elements. These were composed entirely from recycled and salvaged materials to be utilized as a floating interactive sculpture on the banks of the Schuylkill River. These were then transformed into land floats for two parades and festivals before being converted into an interactive installation inside the galleries at the PAA. At each iteration, the artists staged musical performances, aerial acrobatics, shadow puppetry, and spoken word performances, using their flotillas/sculptures as stage sets. Reaching over 10,000 visitors, the exhibition also included a comprehensive catalog/box which also included posters, postcards and ephemera created by the artists themselves.

One of my largest ongoing projects for the Art Alliance involved the careful process of archiving the 100 year history of exhibitions and programming of the organization. This included conducting extensive research in order to compile over 800 archival documents to retrace important events in Art Alliance history in the fields of the visual arts, architecture, music, dance, theater, and literature.

Prior to my work at the Art Alliance, I was the assistant to the Director at Gallery Joe, a commercial gallery in Old City, Philadelphia, where I worked with the Director as a liaison between artists and the gallery in preparation of all exhibitions. Prior to moving to Philadelphia, I worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art as an assistant in the Department of Archives.

While completing my MA in Art History at American University, I was selected to represent the Department of Art History at the Annual Mid-Atlantic Symposium for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts held at the National Gallery of Art (West), where I presented new scholarship on issues related to Marcel Duchamp’s alter-ego Rrose Sélavy.

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