ANN HOLCOMB
ann.holcomb@gmail.com | 646-221-2507 | New York, NY | Richwood, OH
EDUCATION
MFA Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
BA Art History, Wellesley College
Classics concentration, Hollins College
Apeiron Workshops (photography residency)
FREELANCE COPY EDITOR AND WRITER
writing assignments specified in brackets
Architects, Artists, and Urbanists
Midtown Modern, ed. Nina Rappaport (forthcoming, 2026)
Hybrid Factory/Hybrid City, ed. Nina Rappaport (New York: Actar, 2022)
"Deep Decoration as Structural Holism," Nina Rappaport, Technoscape: The Architecture of Engineers,
eds. Maristella Casciato and Pippo Ciorri (Rome: MAXXI, National Museum of 21st Century Art, 2022)
Vertical Urban Factory, ed. Nina Rappaport, 1st edition and paperback edition (New York: Actar, 2015/2020)
Eyes That Saw: Architecture After Las Vegas, eds. Stanislaus von Moos and Martino Stierli (Zürich: Verlag
Scheidegger & Speiss, 2020)
The Design of Urban Manufacturing, eds. Nina Rappaport and Robert N. Lane (New York: Routledge, 2020)
Vertical Urban Factory exhibition, curator Nina Rappaport, The Skyscraper Museum, New York, NY (2011)
Biographical essay on ODA Architecture founder and principal Eran Chen, New York, NY (2016) [writer]
Art and Cultural Organizations
Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris and Robin F. Williams: We've Been Expecting You, exhibition wall panels
and object labels, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (2024)
Tony Oursler, Optical Timeline, exhibition wall text and graphics (Hessel Museum, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2016)
Intelligent Cities, Susan C. Piedmont-Palladino (Washington, DC: National Building Museum, 2011)
Living As Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991–2011, project website, ed. Nato Thompson
(New York: Creative Time, 2012)
AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs: Queer Spirits, AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs
(New York: Creative Time Books, 2011)
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide, Paul Chan (New York: Creative Time Books, 2010)
A Guide to This World and Nearer Ones exhibition pamphlet, Mark Beasely (New York: Creative Time, 2009)
Colleges and Universities
“Teachers and the Practice of Leadership: Enabling Change for Transformation
and Social Justice,” The New Educator [peer reviewer for City College of New York, 2026]
What About Learning?, Deborah Saunt and Jane Wong (Yale School of Architecture, 2023)
Kent Bloomer: Nature as Ornament, eds. Sunil Bald and Gary Huafan He (Yale School of Architecture, 2021)
Towers in the City: Berlin Alexanderplatz, Hans Kolhoff, ed. Kyle Dugdale with Kirk Henderson
(Yale School of Architecture, 2018)
Reassessing Rudolph, ed. Timothy M Rohan (Yale School of Architecture, 2017)
Common Wealth, ed. Ed Mitchell (Yale School of Architecture, 2016)
Converging Territories: Island Incubator, Marion Weiss and Michael A. Manfredi
(Yale School of Architecture, 2016)
Exhibiting Architecture: A Paradox?, ed. Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (Yale School of Architecture, 2015)
Analytic Models in Architecture, ed. Emmanuel Petit (Yale School of Architecture, 2015)
Knowing How in Downtown Las Vegas, eds. Amy Kessler and Amy Mielke
(Yale School of Architecture, 2014)
Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture, ed. Karla Britton
(Yale School of Architecture, 2014)
The Yale Building Project: The First 40 Years, ed. Richard W. Hayes (Yale School of Architecture, 2007)
Constructs quarterly journal, eds. Nina Rappaport and Robert A.M. Stern (Yale School of Architecture, 2005–06)
Victor Burgin: 2000 Robert Gwathmey Chair in Architecture and Art (2000: Cooper Union School of Art)
Design Studios
Notes for an Art School, ed. Mai Abu ElDahab (Cyprus: Manifesta 6 School Books, 2011)
[O_R_G. Inc., New York, NY
Typorama: The Graphic Work of Philippe Apeloig, essays by Ellen Lupton and Alice Morgaine,
ed. Tino Grass (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013), bilingual exhibition monograph, Musée des arts décoratifs
(Paris: Studio Philippe Apeloig) [writer]
Winning logotype commission, Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy (Paris: Studio Philippe Apeloig, 2002) [writer]
Interview with Philippe Apeloig in designboom magazine and article on his visual identity
for the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the Emirati newspaper Gulf Today (Paris: Studio Philippe Apeloig, 2014) [writer]
Galleries and Art Advisory
e-newsletters, Moeller Fine Art., New York, NY (2023)
La Borne: 1940–1980, A Post War Movement of Ceramic Expression in France, ed. Hughes Magen
(New York: Magen H. Gallery, 2013) [witer]
Press releases, Silo, Lower Eastside, New York, NY (2004–07) [writer]
Memoir
Measure of a Life: LeRoy E. Hoffberger, LeRoy E. Hoffberger (self-published, 2014)
Remembrance of businessman/philanthropist/political power broker Zev Wolfson, Nechama Wolfson
(private distribution, 2014)
My New Orleans, Gone Away, Peter M. Wolf (New York: Delphinium Books, 2013)
Science
The State of the Urban Forest in NYC, eds. Emily Maxwell, Michael L. Treglia, and Alaina Van Slooten
(New York: The Nature Conservancy, 2021)
GRANT WRITING
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2021–24)
The Hispanic Society Museum and Library, New York, NY (2023)
Museum of Motherhood, St. Petersburg, FL (2022)
Diane Tuft, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (awarded),
National Science Foundation, New York, NY (2012)
World Science Festival Foundation, New York, NY (2009–10)
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (2007)
Exit Art, New York, NY (2005)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY (2004)
Terminal 5 at JFK International Airport (2003)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Officer, Foundation and Government Relations, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY (2006-20) Managed portfolio of multi-sector funding prospects to support capital campaign andinstitutional goals; raised 5- to 7-figure gifts to support exhibitions, conservation, the library, education,
community access programs, and the 2-volume Andy Warhol Film Catalogue Raisonné;
served as liaison for visiting heads of state and dignitaries from Asia, Europe, and Latin America,
consuls general, and consulate and embassy personnel.
Director of Archives, Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, Cooper Union
School of Art, New York, NY (2000-05) Managed day-to-day operations of postwar graphic design archive;
co-organized exhibitions, publications, international design lecture series; directed full-and part-time staff, student interns; and supported the research and work of Lubalin Fellows, visiting scholars, designers, and curators.
SKILLS
Copy editing, developmental editing, line editing, proofreading, cold reading, fact checking, indexing, proposal writing, research, visual design
Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, MS Excel, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Raisers Edge, Squarespace,
The Museum System, MS Word
American Psychological Association (APA), Associated Press (AP), Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS),
Public Library Science (PLOS)