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(left) Robin F. Williams, Bechdel Yetis, 2020; (right) Marie Laurencin, Woman Painter and Her Model, 1921
Columbus Museum of Art
Copy edited didactic materials Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris and Robin F. Williams: We've Been Expecting You (both exhibitions 2024).
Collective use of private spaces in city blocks, Milan, Italy
Hybrid Factory Hybrid City (Actar, 2023)
Edited by Nina Rappaport, this volume is an outgrowth of her Vertical Urban Factory think tank and practicum. Comprising essays by an international group of architects and urbanists, the book explores strategies for reintroducing manufacturing to cities in ways that coexist harmoniously with residential life.
left: Merrill Wagner, Untitled, 1969; right: Tourmaline, Coral Hairstreak, 2020
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library
Reported on two initiatives:
— “Creating New Perspectives on Hispanismo Programs” funded by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, offering student enrichment opportunities, gallery tours, scholarly conversations, and family events highlighting the art, literature, and cultures of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world.
— A pilot project for the comprehensive assessment and rehousing of the HSM&L textile collections funded through a partnership between the Greater Hudson Heritage Network and the New York State Council on the Arts, to preserve for exhibition five Spanish lace mantillás or mantóns (shawls).
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
I supported fundraising efforts for a museum known for its engagement with the latest developments in contemporary art and focus on living artists. I wrote proposals for a survey of feminist art that reexamined a critical 21st artv movement; education programs that provided a cultural lifeline for schools and communities in Connecticut and New York’s Hudson Valley; transportation that enabled at-risk and underserved students to visit the museum; and an exhibition series that emerged in response to COVID-19.
Conserved Mantón de Manila (accession no. LH497) covered with Hollytex and padded archival tube in which it will be safely stored.
Museum of Motherhood, St Petersburg, FL
The Museum of Motherhood (MOM) emerged from an international music festival in 2003 and expanded to include visual arts programming, cross-disciplinary scholarship, and innovative social justice initiatives in Harlem, the Bronx, and Tampa. I supported a funding opportunity supportive of the museum’s relocation from a bungalow to an expansive new space. The ultimate goal is the construction of a visionary new three-story building conceived by founder Marthay Joy Rose.
MOM at the Factory Building, warehouse district (2023–present)
Installation view, MOM art annex, the museum’s incubator space in the founder’s home, pestablished in 2018 in the historic Kenwood district
The State of the Urban Forest in New York City
(The Nature Conservancy in New York, 2021)
Sarah Gephart of MGMT Design—an expert in translating complex information into compelling visual form—introduced me to this scientific study. Serving as a proofreader for The Nature Conservancy’s first-of-its-kind and data-intensive initiative, I worked closely with the physical, environmental, social, legal, and ethical issues impacting the seven million trees that inhabit New York City’s five boroughs.
Eyes That Saw: Architecture After Las Vegas (Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020)
Co-edited by Swiss art historian and architectural theorist Stanislaus von Moos and Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, this book was my second project centered on Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s legendary Learning from Las Vegas design and research studio at the Yale School of Architecture, exploring the intersections of visual art, architecture, film, and urban design framed by Venturi and Scott Brown.
The Fiat Lingotto vertical factory’s avant-garde 1,500-meter rooftop test track for finished cars
Vertical Urban Factory(Actar 2015/2020)
This book, now in its second printing, represents the culmination of author Nina Rappaport’s ongoing Vertical Urban Factory initiative, which has produced an international touring exhibition (which premiered at the Skyscraper Museum, New York), two books, and numerous international symposia and workshops. I served multiple roles for both the exhibition and the book.
Title page with portrait of the author in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, 2015
Measure of a Life: Memoirs, Insights, and Philosophies of LeRoy E. Hoffberger
(self-published, 2016)
Leroy E. Hoffberger was a visionary community leader across art, religion, business, medical research, and philanthropy in his native Baltimore, while also making the world his home. Witnessing Roy’s “memory exercise” blossom into a compelling account of a life fully lived was a privilege, as was the opportunity to collaborate with him and his wife, Paula. I contributed to the book’s production in various capacities.
Co-speakers (left) Buckminster Fuller and (right) Peter M. Wolf with Dominique De Menil St. Thomas University, Houston, on the occasion of Fuller’s 1969 exhibition, The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age (March 25–May 18, 1969)
My New Orleans, Gone Away: A Memoir of Loss and Renewal, (Delphinium Books, 2015)
Working on Peter M. Wolf’s memoir was a spirited endeavor. Peter’s openness to the editing process was remarkable, and awakened me to the creative potential between writer and editor.
Exhibition installation view, hallway of Apeloig’s motion graphics work, Musée des arts decoratifs, Paris (2013)
Typorama: The Graphic Work of Philippe Apeloig (Thames & Hudson, 2013)
Paris-based designer and typographer Philippe Apeloig and I first met at The Cooper Union School of Art, where he served as associate professor of graphic design and I managed the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. For three years, we worked closely on the Study Center’s dynamic program of exhibitions, publications, and lectures by leading figures in graphic design.
In 2012, Apeloig invited me to collaborate with him, German editor Tino Gräss, and the studio design team on the English translations of project descriptions for his retrospective publication. These texts also served as wall labels for the eponymous exhibition at the Musée des arts décoratifs. I served as writer, copy editor, and fact-checker.
Exhibition installation detail, Magen H Gallery
LA BORNE 1940–1980: A postwar movement of ceramic expression in France (Magen H Gallery, 2013)
I was invited to join this book project—co-conceived by gallery co-founders and directors Hughes Magen and April Magen—through Philippe Apeloig, who designed the publication accompanying Magen H Gallery’s exhibition. The book explores a traditional potting village in central France that played a pivotal role in the postwar revolution in modern ceramic art. I copy edited and rewrote an English translation of an essay by a French historian.
Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture(Yale School of Architecture, 2011)
I have supported the production of numerous publications for the Yale School of Architecture. One of the most meaningful was architectural historian and theorist Karla Britton’s 2010 exploration of sacred buildings across continents, including churches, mosques, synagogues, and public memorials, sites sites designed by architects representing diverse nationalities and philosophical and spiritual leanings, including agnosticism, the Bahá’í Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. I served as assistant editor.
Interior spread
Queer Spirits, AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs (Creative Time Books, 2011)
This was one of several books I copy edited for Creative Time during a dynamic period under former President and Artistic Director Anne Pasternak.
Waiting for Godot performance, 9th Ward, New Orleans, 2010
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide, Paul Chan (Badlands Unlimited & Creative Time Books, 2010).
Paul Chan’s public project in New Orleans’ 9th Ward, staged two years after Hurricane Katrina staged free public performances of Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot with an accompanying book that compiles research materials, photographs, drawings, and texts.