Exhibitions
Sporting Fashion
Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960
FIDM Museum + tour venues, 2021-2024
This traveling exhibition, drawn from the collections of the FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles, will explore the evolution of women’s sporting attire over 160 years of Western fashion.
As the curatorial associate for the tour, my main task was to book museum venues across the United States, including The Frick Pittsburgh, Dixon Gallery & Gardens (Memphis, TN), and Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (Utica, NY). I also worked closely with the FIDM Museum curators to determine which of the over 100 ensembles slated to be shown in their own presentation would be most amenable for travel and extended display.
To support production of the accompanying catalogue, I edited text, advised on images, coordinated with the publisher (Prestel), and secured Serena Williams to write a foreword that would bring the themes of the project into the present day.
1930s motorcycling ensemble, FIDM Museum, courtesy American Federation of Arts. Photo: Brian Sanderson
Eleanor Lambert
Empress of Seventh Avenue
Gallery FIT, 2020
Celebrating the 75-year career of Eleanor Lambert (1903-2003), this exhibition showcased the “original” fashion publicist’s tireless advocacy for American designers and the New York fashion industry.
As one of two graphic designers on the exhibition team, I designed text panels, object labels, and vinyl elements for the gallery, including a custom “lipstick line” inspired by Lambert’s favorite shades.
This graphic identity was adapted for use on the exhibition website, for which I developed a site map and coordinated asset delivery with the museum’s digital team. Similarly, I worked with an outside designer to coordinate design and production of an accompanying publication.
Exhibition view © Museum at FIT
Artek and the Aaltos
Creating a Modern World
Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 2016
This exhibition was the first in the United States to examine Artek, a pioneering Finnish design company founded in 1935, and the first to have a specific focus on the two architect co-founders, Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) and Aino Marsio-Aalto (1894–1949).
As curatorial assistant—then assistant curator—for the project, I drafted loan requests, liaised with private and institutional lenders, and wrote didactic and related texts. Working closely with the curator and exhibition designer, I coordinated object lists and digital assets and designed guides for in-gallery photo reproductions that brought Artek interiors to life.
For the accompanying catalogue, I conducted and arranged research and translation of both catalogue texts and archival documents in Finnish, Swedish, German, and French. I also coordinated text delivery, editing, and image selection among the book’s many contributors and book designer Irma Boom.
Finally, I developed content for two digital flipbooks: one of Aino Marsio-Aalto’s 1921 travel sketchbook and the other of her later diary.
Exhibition view © Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Additional exhibition roles and projects have included
Curatorial associate for multi-venue traveling exhibitions organized by the American Federation of Arts
Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style (with Glasgow Museums, 2019-2022)
Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement (with Birmingham Museums Trust, 2018-2022)
Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection (with Seattle Art Museum, 2017-2019)
Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture (with Bata Shoe Museum, 2015-2017)
Exhibitions assistant at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Curatorial intern in the Costume & Textiles department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art