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Curator

The Future of Clay (with Jennifer Zwilling, Anya Montiel, and Zindzi Harley), 2024, The Clay Studio

Objects: USA 2024 (with Kellie Riggs), 2024, R & Company

Contigo, 2024, GGLA

In Good Taste: Lindsey “Lou” Howard, 2023, albertz benda

Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture, 2023, Museum of Arts and Design

Barro Barrio, 2023, GGLA

Fragile: Earth, 2022, Grounds for Sculpture

Flower Craft (with Elissa Auther and Sarah Bedford), 2022, Museum of Arts and Design

Belonging: 2022 NCECA Annual, 2022, Crocker Art Museum

The Universe Within, 2022, Mindy Solomon Gallery

Pattern and Repetition, 2021, Site: Brooklyn

Out of Office, 2021, Collar Works

Hawai’i Craftsmen Annual Exhibition, 2021, Honolulu Downtown Art Center

Story Makers: Burke Prize 2021 (award-winning), 2021, Museum of Arts and Design

Craft Front & Center (with Elissa Auther, Barbara Paris Gifford, Samantha De Tillio, and Christian Larsen) 2021, Museum of Arts and Design

Sleight of Hand, 2020, Center for Craft

Clay Is Just Thick Paint: Jennifer Rochlin, 2020, Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery

Burke Prize 2019 (with Samantha De Tillio), 2019—20, Museum of Arts and Design

The Burke Prize 2018: The Future of Craft Part 2 (with Samantha De Tillio), 2018—19, Museum of Arts and Design

From the Collection: GOLD (with Elissa Auther), 2018, Museum of Arts and Design

Kinetic Intimacies (with Danny Orendorff), 2017, Museum of Arts and Design

Project Manager | Curatorial Assistant

45 Stories in Jewelry, 2020—21, Museum of Arts and Design

The World of Anna Sui, 2019—20, Museum of Arts and Design

Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes, 2019, Museum of Arts and Design

Non-Stick Nostalgia: Y2K Retrofuturism in Contemporary Jewelry, 2019, Museum of Arts and Design

Sterling Ruby: Ceramics, 2018—19, Museum of Arts and Design

Liz Collins: Rays, 2018—19, Museum of Arts and Design

Anne Lindberg: the eye’s level, 2018—19, Museum of Arts and Design

MAD Collects: The Future of Craft Part 1, 2018—19, Museum of Arts and Design

Tanya Aguiñiga: Craft & Care, 2018, Museum of Arts and Design

Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro, 2018, Museum of Arts and Design

Samantha Bittman: Interlace, 2018, Museum of Arts and Design

La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border, 2018, Museum of Arts and Design

Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound, 2017—18, Museum of Arts and Design

fashion after Fashion, 2017, Museum of Arts and Design

Judith Leiber: Crafting a New York Story, 2017, Museum of Arts and Design

Coille Hooven: Tell It By Heart, 2016—17, Museum of Arts and Design

Chris Antemann: Forbidden Fruit, 2016—17, Museum of Arts and Design

Studio Job MAD House, 2016, Museum of Arts and Design

Writer

Books

New Women’s Work, author, 2024, Smith Street Books

Catalogs

Objects: USA 2024, author, 2024, R & Company

Shinichi Sawada: Agents of Clay, contributing author, 2024, The Mint and Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis

The Universe Within, contributing author, 2023, Mindy Solomon Gallery

Raven Halfmoon, contributing author, 2023, Ross + Kramer

John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park, contributing author, 2023, Des Moines Art Center

Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture, editor and contributing author, 2023, Museum of Arts and Design and HIRMER Publishers

Clayjà Vu: William J. O’Brien and Sasha Feldman, contributing author, 2023, Ki Smith Gallery

Fragile: Earth, contributing author, 2022, Grounds for Sculpture

2022 NCECA Catalogue, contributing author, 2022, NCECA

Voices For Change, contributing author, 2021, University of Arkansas

Contemporary Clay 2021, contributing author, 2021, Western Carolina University

Jewelry Stories: Highlights from the Collection 1947—2019, project manager and contributing author, 2021, Museum of the Arts and Design

Claudia Weiser: Generations, interviewer, 2020, Bemis Art Center

Sleight of Hand, author, 2020, Center for Craft

Clay Is Just Thick Paint: Jennifer Rochlin, author, 2020, Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery

Burke Prize 2019, editor and author with Samantha De Tillio, 2019, Museum of Arts and Design

Roger Brown: Still Lifes, project manager, 2019, Museum of Arts and Design

The Burke Prize 2018, editor and author with Samantha De Tillio, 2018, Museum of Arts and Design

Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Shapiro, project manager, 2018, Museum of Arts and Design

La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border, project manager, 2018, Museum of Arts and Design

Articles

Q & A Column, 2022, Metalsmith Magazine

Interview: Luana Vitra, 2021, Foundwork

Object Story: Nourish, 2021, American Craft Magazine

Seriously Cute: Six Artists Harnessing the Power Dichotomy of Cuteness, 2020, Cultured Magazine

Reprinted (abridged) in Documents of Contemporary Art: The Cute, 2022, White Chapel Gallery and MIT Press, edited by Sianne Ngai

Reprinted (translated into German) in Cuteness: Das Niedliche als ästhetische Kategorie, 2023, Kunstforum

Future Armor: Jewelry as Garment, 2019, Current Obsession Magazine x New York City Jewelry Week

Underdog Island: A Glimpse into Puerto Rican Contemporary Art at MECA, 2017, Cultbytes

Fabric of Change: The Quilt Art of Ruth Clement Bond, 2017, Museum Arts and Design

Two of a Kind: Couples in Craft in MAD’s Permanent Collection, 2017, Museum Arts and Design

Reviews

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2020, The Journal of Modern Craft

An Alternative History of Glass Review, 2019, Glass: Urban Glass Quarterly

Press Releases

Melissa Joseph and Bony Ramirez Reflect on “Captive Rest” for Frieze LA 2023, Regular Normal

Larissa De Jesus Negrón: Moving On, 2020, Proyectos Sabrosos

YB^2P, 2020, Cantinca Tabacaru Gallery Harlem


Guest Lectures, Critiques, & Programs

 

Guest to Professional Practices in Craft Class, November 18, 2022, Tyler School of Art

Ceramics Department Visiting Critic, October 5, 2022, University of Florida

Curatorial Studies and Ceramics Departments Visiting Lecturer, October 11, 2022, Maryland Institute of College Art

Lecturer, July 28, 22, Critical Connections

MFA Visiting Critic, April 7, 2022, The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Ceramics Department Visiting Critic, March 9 & 10, 2022, University of Arkansas

Ceramics Podcasts Panel, February 23, 2022, The Ceramics School

Exploring Museum Careers Panel, February 10, 2022, Skidmore College

Out of Office Panel, January 28, 2022, Collar Works

Ceramics Department Visiting Lecturer, March 23, 2021, Tyler School of Art

CAKE CAKE CAKE: Baking as Resistance with Yvette Mayorga, January 29, 2021, Center for Craft

Ask the Curator, January 15, 2021, Center for Craft

Lecturer, January 7, 2021, Decorative Arts Trust

Voices for Change Panel Moderator, December 3, 2020, Fine arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas

Virtual Tour of Sleight of Hand, December 3, 2020, Center for Craft

Ceramics Department Visiting Critic, October 15, 2020, Rhode Island School of Design

Ceramics Department Visiting Lecturer, October 12 and 19, 2020, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

MECA TALKS, Instagram live series, Fall 2020, MECA Art Fair

Fulcrum Project Presenter and Mentor, August 2020

Speaker for LA Getty Interns, August 5, 2020

Curator Conversations with Danny Baez, moderated by Omar Lopez-Chaud, July 1, 2020, Doral Contemporary Art Museum

In the Loupe with Aline Berdichevsky, May 27, 2020, Museum of Arts and Design

MECA Talks (3 panels on Diasporic Identity, the Challenges of Mid-Size Galleries, and Diversity in the Curatorial Realm), moderator, November 22—24, 2019, MECA Art Fair

Conversations on Autonomy Through Wearing: Feeling Myself, moderator
New York City Jewelry Week, November 18, 2019, Pratt Institute

Navigation Identity and Tradition in Contemporary Craft (a trilogy of panels with the finalists of Burke Prize 2019), moderator, October 3, 2019, Museum of Arts and Design

Hegemony, Hybridity, Hollywood: A Roundtable on Contemporary Art and Colonialism, speaker, June 26, 2019, Pînto International

Mock panel guest critic for Core 6: Creativity and Entrepreneurship, Parsons School of Design, 2019

The Burke Prize 2018: The Future of Craft Part 2, guest lecturer, October 3, 2018, The Mellon at MAD: Artistic Practices at the Museum of Arts and Design course

Tanya Aguiñiga: Craft & Care, guest lecturer, September 12, 2018, The Mellon at MAD: Artistic Practices at the Museum of Arts and Design course

Alumni panel: Collecting Craft and Design, speaker, September 25, 2018, The Bard Graduate Center

Comparative Models of Grants Management, speaker, July 27, 2018, Center for Craft, NC


Podcasts

Host

Clay in Color, with Alex Anderson, 2021—, Brickyard Network

Guest

The Maker’s Playbook, 2022

Art + Magic, 2022

The Ceramics Podcast, 2022

Tales of a Red Clay Rambler, 2020




Juries & Mentorships

Juror, 2022, SNAG Annual Members Exhibition

Mentor, 2022, ACC Pathways

Juror, 2022, ACC Emergent Artist Cohort

Ceramics Department MFA Thesis Committee member, 2022, Rhode Island School of Design

Residency juror, 2022, Wassaic Projects

Juror, 2021, Hawai’i Craftsmen Annual Exhibition

Mentor, 2021, The Color Network + Artaxis Curatorial Fellowship

Residency juror, 2021, Textile Art Center

Product juror, 2021, UrbanGlass

AN12 juror, 2020, ARTNOIR

Craft USA Fellows juror, 2020, United States Artists

Artist Studios Selection Committee, 2018—, Museum of Arts and Design


40 Under 40 in Craft, Apollo Magazine, 2024

Material Intelligence Writing Workshop, with Glenn Adamson, Chipstone Foundation, 2022

Professional Alliance for Curators of Color, AAMC Foundation, 2022—23

Cultured Magazine x Parker Pen Writer’s Grant, 2020

2020 Center for Craft Curatorial Fellow, 2019—20

Haystack Summer Conference Scholarship, 2019

Awards, Fellowships, & Workshops


MA in Decorative Arts, Design History & Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center, NY, 2016 

Decorative Arts Seminar, Ecole Du Louvre, Summer 2015

BA in Art History with minors in Anthropology and Ceramics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2014

Education