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