Institutional Roles & Culture Work
🕙 Art Matters Foundation
Manager, Grants & Artist Intiatives (2021-2022)
Founded in 1985 in response to artistic censorship and the defunding of federal artist fellowships in the US, Art Matters supports artists and culture workers through unrestricted fellowships, given annually.
Notable Projects
2021 Artist2Artist Fellows
2022 Artist2Artist Fellows
Art Matters Presents: Artist2Artist Conversations
Press
“An Unconventional Grant That Lets Artists Pay It Forward” by Elaine Velie for Hyperallergic
🕙 FRONT International 2022
Associate Curator (2019-2020)
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art was a free, public art exhibition that took place across Cleveland, Akron, and Oberlin, Ohio every three years.
Notable Programs
WHISPER SESSIONS: Moving Some Rocks
WHISPER SESSIONS: How do we protest if we can’t get out of bed?
WHISPER SESSIONS: Dear Artists #WFH
Press
“FRONT International reveals theme, title, and artistic team for 2021 edition,” Artforum
🕙 EFA Project Space
Associate Program Director (2014-2019)
A collaborative, cross-disciplinary arts venue producing guest curated exhibitions, artist projects, and the SHIFT Residency for Arts Workers.
Exhibitions
- Temporary Island (2019)
- In The Presence of Absence (2019)
- Endless Edition Biennial: Optimism (2018)
- As Far As The Heart Can See (2018)
- Apparatus 2.0: The Unreliable Library (2018)
- Seven Senses (2018)
- #callresponse (2018)
- Omega Workshop: An Experiment in Counter-Fashion (2018)
- Progeny! (2017)
- Near & Dear (2017)
- Past Live (2017)
- Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time (2016)
- Once More, With Feeling (2016)
- Apparatus for a Utopian Image (2016)
- No Atlas (2016)
- A Certain Urge (Towards Turmoil) (2015)
- The Let Down Reflex (2015)
- Accompaniment (2015)
- Writing Bodies (2015)
- A Wicked Problem (2014)