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New Exhibit: Creativity vs. COVID

Creativity vs. COVID: Ending the Pandemic for Good
Virtual exhibit.

For months I’ve been working with other members of the Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 collective (FTV) to create an exhibit that shares the group’s work with new audiences. Now it’s here! See how FTV is talking about access to Covid medicines, explore FTV’s creative actions, and sharpen your creative advocacy skills in the process. In the coming months, galleries, museums, and university groups will connect their local audiences with the show through in-person and online programs.

Read more about the show or visit the exhibit site.

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Coming in 2021: Essay on teaching with and learning from an absent object

Modupe Labode, Liz Kryder-Reid, and I have an essay coming out next year in Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversies, edited by Sierra Rooney and Jennifer Wingate, and published by Bloomsbury.

“The Afterlife of E Pluribus Unum” looks at how communities in Indianapolis have and haven’t learned from the 2011 cancellation of Fred Wilson’s proposed public sculpture, E Pluribus Unum.

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Coming in 2021: Essays on Engaged Art History

I’ve written two essays that will appear in Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond: Alternative approaches to the theory and practice of art history, edited by Cindy Persinger and Azar Rejaie, and coming out from Palgrave Macmillan in early 2021.

“Structuring Academic Jobs for Engaged Art History” is a case study of the Public Scholar positions at IUPUI.

“Cultivating an Engaged Art History from Interdisciplinary Roots” offers a theoretical and practical framework for engaged art history based on scholarship developed outside of the discipline.

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Essay + Exhibit on Art, Ethics, and Access to COVID Medicine

“Free the Vaccine,” IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, September 11, 2020. Coauthored with Steve Lambert.

I’m working with a bunch of amazing collaborators to create an exhibition about artistic activism and health equity in the COVID-19 pandemic. Creativity vs. COVID: Ending the Pandemic for Good shares the work of Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 – a collective that’s using artistic activism to make sure publicly-funded COVID tests, treatments, and (eventually) safe and effective vaccines are globally available, sustainably priced, and free to individual patients.

The exhibit goes live this fall!

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Conference Presentation on Teaching in and with Museums

College Art Association Annual Conference
February 15, 2020

As part of a session on teaching across museum and classroom contexts, I’m giving a talk entitled, “Building Research Skills Through the Study and Critique of Museum Architectural History.” It spotlights Museums, Architecture, and the Politics of Space, a course I developed for art history undergraduate students and museum studies MA students.

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Examining the opioid crisis in my first artwork for a museum exhibition

FIX: Heartbreak and Hope Inside Our Opioid Crisis
February 1, 2020 – February 7, 2021
Indiana State Museum

My collaborator Meredith Brickell and I have created an interactive installation for the Indiana State Museum’s new exhibition about the opioid crisis. The show explores the complexities of its challenging subject by blending history, science, and art. It is such an honor to be part of this amazing museum project!

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Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice

Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice
January 9 – February 16, 2020
Central Library, 40 E St. Clair St., Indianapolis

Installation view, Climates of Inequality at Indianapolis Central Library. Photo by Liz Kryder-Reid

After years of planning, research, and collaboration with local and international partners, it’s exciting to have Climates of Inequality on view in Indianapolis! The collaboratively curated exhibit organized by the Humanities Action Lab features contributions from more than 20 communities that are working to address environmental injustices.

Over the course of 3 semesters IUPUI Museum Studies students partnered with the Kheprw Institute to study and share stories about environmental justice and Indianapolis’s waterways. Their work is part of the traveling exhibition and also included on the project’s digital platform.