PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance editor and writer 2011–present
Edits and writes a variety of printed publications and web projects for cultural and educational clients.
Northwestern University: Senior Editor, Publications, Department of University Relations 1993–2011
Strategized, planned, edited, and wrote a variety of printed and electronic publications and promotional materials for clients within the University system, including the Office of Undergraduate Admission, the School of Continuing Studies, the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Block Museum of Art, and the University Library.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: Editor 1991–1993
Supervised museum’s first in-house publications department. Supervised interns. Coordinated arrangements between museum and authors, consultants, and design firms and with trade publishers. Edited exhibition catalogues.
Ligature Inc., Chicago (textbook publisher): Editor 1989–1990
The Art Institute of Chicago: Publications Department, intern/editorial assistant 1984–1988
EDUCATION
Northwestern University: Master of Arts, Interdisciplinary Program in Liberal Studies, Thesis: “Jim Crow in Manhattan: The Origins of Blackface Entertainment in America”
University of Chicago, Publishing Program: Basic Manuscript Editing–Intensive
North Park College, Chicago: Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude (English literature and composition)
SELECTED PROJECTS
Harvey Quaytman: A Retrospective, by Apsara DiQuinzio, with contributions by Suzanne Hudson, Lauren R. O’Connell, R. H. Quaytman, and John Yau, University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive/University of California Press, winter 2018
Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou, edited by Julia M. White, with essays by Tamara Bentley, Patricia Berger, Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Shi-yee Liu, and Richard Vinograd, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive/University of California Press, fall 2017
“The Sweat of Their Face”: Portraying American Workers, by David C. Ward and Dorothy Moss, with an essay by John M. Fagg, National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Books, Washington, DC, fall 2017
Wayne Thiebaud: 1958–1968, with essays by Alexander Nemerov, Rachel Teagle, and Margaretta Lovell, the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis/University of California Press, fall 2017
Classicisms (184 pp) edited by Larry F. Norman and Anne Leonard, texts by Richard T. Neer, Susanna Caviglia, Benjamin Morgan, Andrei Pop, Frederick A. de Armas, Jennifer Wild, Rebecca Zorach, and Glenn W.
Most, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors (230 pp), texts by Melissa Chiu, Alexander Dumbadze, Alex Jones, Gloria Sutton, Miwako Tezuka, and Mika Yoshitake, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC,
and DelMonico Books—Prestel, Munich, London, New York, winter 2017
Tomb Treasures: New Discoveries from China’s Han Dynasty (206 pp), texts by Jay Xu, Li Zebin, Li Yinde, and Tianlong Jiao, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, winter 2017
Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955–1972 (192
pp), with texts by Ninotchka Bennahum, Wendy Perron, Bruce Robertson, Simone Forti, John Rockwell,
and Morton Subotnik, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, in association with University of California Press, fall 2016
Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War (368 pp), by Erika Wolf, the Art Institute of Chicago, distributed by Yale University Press, summer 2016
The Uses of Photography: Art, Politics, and the Reinvention of a Medium (224 pp), edited by Jill Dawsey with contributions by David Antin, Jill Dawsey, Pamela M. Lee, Judith F. Rodenbeck, and Benjamin J. Young,
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, in association with University of California Press, fall 2016
Theories of the Nonobject: Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, 1944–1969 (344 pp) by Monica Amor, University of California Press, March 2016
Emperors’ Treasures: Chinese Art from the National Palace Museum, Taipei (254 pp), with texts by Ho Chuan-Hsin, Tianlong Jiao, Alfreda Murck, and He Li, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, spring 2016
Paik’s Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art (264 pp) by Hanna Hölling, University of California Press, February 2017
Introduction to Metadata, 3rd ed. (84 pp), edited by Murtha Baca, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, spring 2016
Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change (192 pp) with texts by Evelyn Hankins, Susan Lake, Matthew Simms, and Jennifer Winkworth, Hirshhorn Museum, spring 2016
“Becoming Warhol: The Queer Artist in the Age of Consensus” by Edward D. Powers
Conundrum: Visual Puzzles within the Grotesques Tapestry Series (64 pp) by Charissa Bremer-David, Getty Publications, fall 2015
Shirin Neshat: Facing History (248 pp) with text by Shirin Neshat, Melissa Chu, Melissa Ho, Stephen Henry Madoff, and Manhaz Afkhami, Hirshhorn Museum/Smithsonian Books, spring 2015
Jean-Luc Mylayne: Mutual Regard (64 pp) with text by Christie Davis, Janine Mileaf, Matthew S. Witkovsky, and others, The Arts Club of Chicago, spring 2015
Mark Dion: Phantom Museum and Wonder Workshop (24 pp) with text by Jill Shaw and Carolyn C. Guile, Picker Art Museum, Colgate University, winter 2015
Richard Serra (48 pp), Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, fall 2014
Diane Arbus (48 pp), Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, fall 2014
“Strictly a Negro Art: Sargent Johnson’s Color Line” by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Rethinking Andrew Wyeth (256pp) with essays by David Cateforis, Wanda M. Corn, Donald Kuspit, Patricia Junker, Randall Edwards, and others, University of California Press, 2014
No Place Like Home: American Scene Painting in the Rex Sinquefield Collection (128pp) by Andrew Walker, 2014 (editor and writer of artist biographies)
Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle (158pp) by Martin A. Berger, University of California Press, 2013
Lostwaxmethod.com, blog, 2013– (proprietor)
Northwestern, viewbook and related system of publications, Office of Undergraduate Admission, Northwestern University, 1998–2012 (writer, editor)
Open Minds, publication on diversity, Northwestern University, 2008–12 (editor, writer)
Maurice Ravel: Fugue in F Minor, facsimile score and essays with CD of performance, Northwestern University Library, 2012
McCormick magazine, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, biannually 1999–2011
Website, Jonathan Boos art gallery (editor, writer, content management)
Brochure and inserts, Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University, 2009 (editor, writer)
Walter A. Netsch, FAIA: A Critical Appreciation and Sourcebook,Northwestern University Library, 2008
Continuum magazine, School of Continuing Studies, Northwestern University, 2005–11 (editor, writer)
Brochures, Institute for NanoBiotechnology in Medicine, Northwestern University, 2005–06
Website for Publications group, University Relations, Northwestern University, 2004 (writer, editor)
Baldwin Kingrey: Midcentury Modern in Chicago, 1947–1957, Wright, Chicago, 2004
Web site, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 2004
Undergraduate viewbook, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 2003, 2004 (writer and editor)
This Was the Photo League: Compassion and the Camera from the Depression to the Cold War,Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, 2001
Virtual tour and web site, Office of Undergraduate Admission, Northwestern University, 1999 (writer, editor)
Undergraduate and graduate viewbooks, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 (writer, editor)
Workbook, annual report/promotional publication, Booth Hansen & Associates Architects, 1995
Culinary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1995 (writer)
Light and Vision: Photography at the School of Design, exhibition catalogue, Stephen Daiter Photography, Chicago, 1994
Ilya Kabakov: Incident at the Museum, or Water Music, exhibition catalogue/artist’s book, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993 (editor, project manager)
Alexander Calder in the Collection of the Ruth and Leonard J. Horwich Family, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992 (editor, project manager)
Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago with New York Graphic Society Books/Little, Brown, and Company, 1988 (editor, writer)
References available upon request.