Professor. Curator. Public Scholar.
Fall Creek: A Look at Art and the Environment
December 9, 2019-January 25, 2020
Central Library, 40 E St. Clair St., Indianapolis
This exhibition of work by photographer Tim Faris (MFA, Herron School of Art + Design, 2019) was developed by Museum Studies students in my spring 2019 Exhibition Planning and Design course and carried out by students in Interpreting Environmental Justice (taught by Liz Kryder-Reid). It kicks off a series of programs in Indianapolis related to Climates of Inequality.
Meredith Brickell and I are creating an interactive installation that will be included in the Indiana State Museum’s upcoming exhibition, FIX: Heartbreak and Hope Inside Our Opioid Crisis. The show opens to the public February 1, 2020. More details soon!
The fall 2019 issue of Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art includes a series of essays that I guest edited about public scholarship in art history. There are contributions from Sarah Beetham, Renée Ater, Theresa Leininger-Miller, Amy Werbel and La Tanya Autry and Mike Murawski.
As I state in the framing essay, “we need to be more consistently explicit about the value and role of public scholarship within our discipline.”
Building on my research about Rocky and media tourism in Philadelphia, I wrote about the fan practice emerging around the so-called “Joker Stairs” in the Bronx:
“Joker fans flocking to a Bronx stairway highlights tension of media tourism.” The Conversation. November 1, 2019.