Professor. Curator. Public Scholar.
This spring, I taught a stellar trio of undergraduate art history students in an independent study on “writing for exhibits.” In partnership with Newfields and Herron’s Basile Center for Art, Design, and Public Life, they wrote interpretive text for three new immersive installations that other Herron students created for THE LUME. On view until February 2026.
February 8-April 22, 2023
Herron Galleries and sites around Indianapolis
This project reflects months of collaboration between the IUPUI Museum Studies Program and the Museum of Broken Relationships (Zagreb, Croatia). Together with students and community partners, we’ve created a multi-site exhibition and array of public programs that consider love, loss, and growth across relationships of all kinds.
Visit the exhibit website for more details, including a full schedule of events and the locations of all 8 installations.
The IUPUI Museum Studies Program is partnering with the Museum of Broken Relationships (based in Zagreb, Croatia) to develop a crowd-sourced exhibit about love, loss, and growth that will open at Herron Galleries and sites around Indianapolis in February 2023! My colleague Lois H. Silverman and I are leading the Indianapolis-based team of students and community partners.
Through October 20, we’re inviting people across Indianapolis to donate objects and stories about broken relationships of all kinds.
Read more about the project, including how we’re integrating it into our courses, on the Museum Studies blog.
I’m facilitating an event at IUPUI about the complex landscape of housing inequity and neighborhood change in Indianapolis. Originally scheduled for April, the event is now happening in June. Details here.
Understanding Housing Inequity
June 22, 2022. 5:30-8:30pm
IUPUI + zoom
[April 13 update: This event has been postponed – it will be rescheduled soon.]
I’m facilitating an event at IUPUI about the complex landscape of housing inequity and neighborhood change in Indianapolis. Details here.
Understanding Housing Inequity
April 13, 2022. 5:30-8:30pm
IUPUI + zoom
Monumental Changes: History and Power in Public Art won the runner-up Award of Awesomeness from the Spirit & Place Festival!
Watch a recording of the panel discussion featuring Paul Mullins, Jordan Ryan, and Danicia Monet.
Students in my fall 2021 course on Public Art and Power are partnering with the Garfield Park Arts Center to develop an exhibit that’s part of this year’s Spirit & Place Festival. We’re inviting audiences to reflect on the park’s history as former site of a Confederate monument and collectively envision a future for public art in the park.
Monumental Changes: History and Power in Public Art
Garfield Park Arts Center
November 5-17, 2021
November 5 events:
6pm: opening reception
7pm: panel discussion with Jordan Ryan, Paul Mullins, and Danicia Monet.
Registration info and more details here.
Shift: What can museums change?
March 24 – April 24, 2021
Basile Gallery, Herron School of Art + Design, IUPUI
Created by students in my IUPUI Museum Studies spring 2021 Exhibit Planning and Design course, this exhibit explores some large and small ways museums are working to right historical wrongs. Students will reflect on their work throughout the run of the show and they’ll propose revisions based on what they learn.
“Teaching with the Museum: Partnership as Pedagogy,” Art History Teaching Resources. March 27, 2020.
Based on a talk I gave at CAA2020, this essay reflects on how I work with colleagues at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields when I teach an art history seminar on “Museums, Architecture, and the Politics of Space.”
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.