EDUCATION

MFA Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
Apeiron Workshops
BA Art History, Wellesley College
Classics, Hollins College


WRITING & EDITING

*Writing assignments noted in brackets; editing involves, according to project, line editing, copy editing, research, and proofreading.

2023

What About Learning?, Deborah Saunt and Jane Wong (Yale School of Architecture)

Moeller Fine Art, New York/Berlin, art advisory e-newsletters

2022

Hybrid Manufacturing/Hybrid Cities, ed. Nina Rappaport (Actar)

2021

The State of the Urban Forest in NYC, Emily Maxwell, Michael L. Treglia, and Alaina Van Slooten (The Nature Conservancy)

Kent Bloomer: Nature as Ornament, eds. Sunil Bald and Gary Huafan He (Yale School of Architecture)

2020

Vertical Urban Factory, Nina Rappaport, paperback edition (Actar)

2019

Eyes That Saw: Architecture After Las Vegas, eds. Stanislaus von Moos and Martino Stierli (Verlag Scheidegger & Speiss) [published August 2020]

2018

Towers in the City: Berlin Alexanderplatz, Hans Kolhoff, ed. Kyle Dugdale with Kirk Henderson (Yale School of Architecture)

2017

The Design of Urban Manufacturing, eds. Robert N. Lane and Nina Rappaport (Routledge)

Reassessing Rudolph, ed. Timothy M Rohan (Yale School of Architecture)

2016

Biographical essay on founder Eran Chen (ODA Architecture) [writer]

Common Wealth, ed. Ed Mitchell (Yale School of Architecture)

Tony Oursler, Optical Timeline, exhibition, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY

Converging Territories: Island Incubator, Marion Weiss and Michael A. Manfredi (Yale School of Architecture)

2015

Vertical Urban Factory, Nina Rappaport, 1st edition (Actar)

Exhibiting Architecture: A Paradox?, ed. Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (Yale School of Architecture)

Analytic Models in Architecture, ed. Emmanuel Petit (Yale School of Architecture)

2014

Knowing How in Downtown Las Vegas, eds. Amy Kessler and Amy Mielke (Yale School of Architecture)

Measure of a Life: LeRoy E. Hoffberger, LeRoy E. Hoffberger (self-published)

2013

La Borne: 1940–1980, A Post War Movement of Ceramic Expression in France, ed. Hughes Magen (Magen H. Gallery), English adaptation of essay for exhibition catalogue [writer]

Typorama: The Graphic Work of Philippe Apeloig, Ellen Lupton and Alice Morgaine, ed. Tino Grass (Thames & Hudson), English translation of project descriptions [writer]

My New Orleans, Gone Away, Peter M. Wolf (Delphinium Books)

2012

Living As Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991–2011 (website), ed. Nato Thompson (Creative Time)

2011

Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture, ed. Karla Britton (Yale School of Architecture)

Intelligent Cities, Susan C. Piedmont-Palladino (National Building Museum)

AA Bronson & Peter Hobbs: Queer Spirits, AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs (Creative Time Books)

2010

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide, Paul Chan (Creative Time Books)

2009

A Guide to This World and Nearer Ones, Mark Beasely (Creative Time Books)

2007

The Yale Building Project: The First 40 Years, ed. Richard W. Hayes (Yale School of Architecture)

2006

Notes for an Art School, ed. Mai Abu ElDahab (Manifesta 6 School Books)

Sick City: An Investigation into Urbanism, Infrastructure, and Disease, Hilary Sample (Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Episode Publishers, 2009)

2005

Constructs, eds. Nina Rappaport and Robert A.M. Stern [2005– 2006] (quarterly journal of the Yale School of Architecture)

Web content for Nouvelle Garde, fashion/art/design marketing consultancy, New York [writer]

2004

Terminal 5 (exhibition catalogue), Andrew Lee Walker and Rachel K. Ward (Lukas & Sternberg)

Press releases (2004–2007), Silo, Lower East Side gallery that pioneered a now-iconic art destination on historic Freeman Alley. Silo showcased a bold mix of emerging to mid-career artists, from Doug Boatwright to Francine Spiegel to Christine Osinski [writing, through 2007]

2002

Proposal for winning logotype competition (based on English translation of design concept), Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy for Studio Philippe Apeloig, Paris [writer]


GRANTWRITING

2023

The Hispanic Society Museum & Library

2021–2023

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

2022

Museum of Motherhood, St. Petersburg, FL

2012

Diane Tuft, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, National Science Foundation (awarded), New York

2009–2010

World Science Festival Foundation, New York

2007

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

2005

Exit Art, New York

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York

2004

Birgit Ramsauer, "Spinet," a Gesamtkunstwerk performed in The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, New York with Jens Barnieck, Charlie Morrow, Aloisia Moser, and Gerd Stern, et al.

2003–2004

Terminal 5 exhibition at JFK (independent curatorial project), New York


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006-2020

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York — Senior Officer, Foundation & Government Relations
Managed portfolio of multi-sector funding prospects to support capital campaign and institutional goals; raised 5- to 7-figure gifts to support exhibitions, conservation and research initiatives, acquisitions, the library, and education and access programs; served as liaison for international embassies and consulates.


Select Funders

Foundations – Annenberg, Bloomberg, Brown, Ford, Ellsworth Kelly, Henry Luce, Andrew W. Mellon, Terra, Andy Warhol

Government – Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Historic Preservation Fund/National Park Services (HPF/NPS) – Save America’s Treasures, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)

International –Consulates General of Brazil, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, French Embassy, Cultural Institutes of Mexico and Italy, Japan and Korea Foundations, Mondriaan Foundation, Phileas Fund, Pro Helvetia/Arts Council of Switzerland

2000-2005

Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography, School of Art, The Cooper Union, New York — Director of Archives Managed and expanded post-WWII design archives with accompanying exhibitions, publications, and an international lecture series, working closely with the curator, faculty, and dean; oversaw full-time and temporary staff, student interns and Lubalin Fellows, and supported visiting scholars, designers, and curators.


TECHNICAL SKILLS

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InDesign, Photoshop, Raisers Edge, The Museum System (TMS)