Biography

I design and produce books and websites for museums and foundations. My interest in education has led me to teach at UConn, Connecticut College and the School of Art+Design at SUNY Purchase, and to be a guest critic at Yale University, RISD and UMass Dartmouth. From 1995 to 2000, I developed and taught a photography and writing program for teenage mothers at Middlesex Hospital. In collaboration with the young mothers, I produced a multi-media presentation, a website, a public radio series and a gallery exhibition showing their stories and photographs. The program was featured in the New York Times. My involvement in publications that use art and literature to educate the public on social issues began with my graphic design thesis at Yale: I researched the development, content and design of Direction magazine, which was published from 1937 to 1945 as a vehicle for artists and writers to speak out against fascism, and presented my findings in a self-designed and self-published zine.

Select Client List

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Cartin Collection
Clark Art Institute
Guggenheim Museum
Harvard Art Museums
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art
Peabody Essex Museum
Princeton University Art Museum
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Whitney Museum of American Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery
Yale Center for British Art
Yale University Press

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Awards

In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, Honorable Mention (2016)
In Plain Sight: Discovering the Furniture of Nathaniel Gould, Honorable Mention (2015)
New Jersey as Non-Site, Best in Show (2014)
Instituting Reform: The Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903 – 1931, First Prize (2013)
Richard Artschwager! Honorable Mention (2013)
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (2008)

Object:Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection, 1909 – 1949 (2015)
The Great Wall of China: Photographs by Chen Changfen (2008)
Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris (2006)
Gary Schneider: Portraits (2005)
The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko (2005)
Mel Bochner: Photographs (2003)
New York: Capital of Photography (2003)
Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ArtNews Photographs (2003)

Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection, First Place (2015)
Richard Artschwager!, Honorable Mention (2013)

Katsura: Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro (2011)
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (2009)

The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Website, Webpick of the day (2014)

Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection (2015)

In Plain Sight: Discovering the Furniture of Nathaniel Gould (2015)

In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, First Place (2016)Diane Arbus: Family Albums (2004)
Vernacular Visionaries: International Outsider Art (2004)

In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11 (2016)

Instituting Reform: The Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903 – 1931 (2013)

Carr, O’Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own (2001)