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Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Copy edited exhibition and wall texts for the 2024 exhibitions Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris and Robin F. Williams: We've Been Expecting You.
Hybrid Factory Hybrid City (Actar, 2023)
Edited by historian, curator, writer, and educator Nina Rappaport is an outgrowth of her ongoing Vertical Urban Factory think tank and practicum. Comprised of a collection of essays by an international group of architects and urbanists, it addresses issues related to bringing manufacturing back to cities in ways that are compatible with residential living.
Contributors: Bram Aerts (TRANS architectuur | stedenbouw), Giovanna Fossa (Politecnico di Milano), Nicholas Gilliland (Tollila + Gilliland Atelier), Dieter Leyssen and Eva de Bruyn (51N4E), Markus Schâefer (Hosoya Schâefer Architects), Ward Verbakel (plusoffice architects), et al.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield CT
I supported fundraising for a 60-year-old museum with its pulse on the latest developments in contemporary art and a focus on living artists. Between 2021 and 2024, I wrote proposals for, among many other projects, a survey of feminist art that brings a critical movement into the 21st century, education programs that provide a cultural lifeline for schools and communities in Connecticut and New York’s Hudson Valley, busing to and from the museum for at-risk and underserved students, and an exhibition series that arose from COVID-19.
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York, NY
This Hispanic Society Museum & Library reported on funding for community access and conservation programs. I wrote the 2023 reports:
“Creating New Perspectives on Hispanismo Programs” entailed off-site student enrichment opportunities, gallery tours, scholarly conversations, and interactive family events that showcased the art, literature, and culture of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world (funded by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs).
Pilot project for a comprehensive assessment and rehousing of the textile collections: conservation of six mantónes de Manila, large Chinese-style embroidered shawls (funded by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network/ New York State Council on the Arts partnership).
Museum of Motherhood (MOM), St Petersburg, FL
The Museum of Motherhood originated in an international music festival that came to encompass visual arts programming, cross-disciplinary scholarship, and pioneering social justice programs in Harlem, the Bronx, and Tampa. I supported a 2022 funding opportunity that would allow the museum to expand its program and footprint. In 2023, MOM moved to a new permanent space inside The Factory, an arts and event venue in the Warehouse District.
The State of the Urban Forest in New York City
(The Nature Conservancy, 2021)
Sarah Gephart of MGMT design, a genius at representing complex information in graphic form, brought me into this scientific study. My role as a proofreader for this first-of-its-kind initiative by The Nature Conservancy allowed me to ponder the physical, environmental, social, legal, and ethical issues surrounding the 7 million trees that inhabit New York City’s five boroughs. Published online in 2021.
Eyes That Saw: Architecture After Las Vegas
(Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020)
Co-edited by Swiss art historian and architectural theorist Stanislaus von Moos and Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, this book was my second project centered around Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s legendary Learning from Las Vegas design and research studio at Yale. Eyes That Saw connected me to the impact of Venturi and Brown’s seminal study on the intersections of visual art, architecture, film, and urban design. I served as line editor, fact-checker, and proofreader.
Vertical Urban Factory (Actar 2015/2020)
This seminal book, now in its second printing, represents the culmination of architectural historian, educator, curator, and author Nina Rappaport’s ongoing Vertical Urban Factory initiative, which has yielded an international touring exhibition, two books, and numbers of symposia and workshops. For the 2011 exhibition which premiered at the Skyscraper Museum in New York, I consulted on administrative issues and edited wall texts and informational graphics.For the book —both the initial 2015 hardcover and 2020 paperback editions, I was line editor, copy editor, and proofreader.
Typorama: The Graphic Work of Philippe Apeloig (Thames & Hudson, 2013)
Paris-based designer and typographer Philippe Apeloig and I met at the Cooper Union School of Art, where he was associate professor of graphic design and I managed the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. We worked closely for three years on the Study Center’s program of exhibitions, publications, and lectures by the world’s premier graphic designers. In 2012, Apeloig invited me to support him, editor Tino Grass, and his design team on the English translation of the project descriptions for his retrospective publication—texts that also served as wall labels for the accompanying exhibition at the Musée des arts decoratifs (2013). I served as writer, copy editor, and fact-checker.
LA BORNE 1940–1980: A postwar movement of ceramic expression in France (Magen H Gallery, 2013)
I was invited to join this book project, co-conceived by Hughes Magen and April Magen, about a traditional potting village in central France that supported a postwar revolution in modern ceramic art through Philippe Apeloig, who designed the eponymous book accompanying Magen H Gallery’s 2013 exhibition. Editing sessions took place amid the gallery's brilliantly and passionately curated displays of 20th-century sculpture, furniture, decorative objects, architectural elements, ceramics, and fine art.
Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture (Yale School of Architecture, 2011)
I have supported the production of numerous Yale School of Architecture publications. One of the most meaningful was architectural historian and theorist Karla Britton’s 2010 exploration of sacred buildings across continents—churches, mosques, synagogues, and memorials. These sites were designed by architects of diverse religious orientations, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Baha'i a, and agnostic. They include Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, and Moshe Safdie, among others. I was the assistant editor.
Queer Spirits (Creative Time Books, 2011) written by AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs was one of several books I copy edited for Creative Time during a dynamic era under former President and Artistic Director Anne Pasternak.
