Biography > Curator, Writer, Educator
2020
Hyperallergic, Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections, July 18
2016
Sculpture, International Sculpture Day 2016, article, October
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, Jill Viney, catalog essay
2013
Tree of Life Foundation, Alyce Simon: Artist of the Atomic Age, editor, essayist
2009
Sculpture, David Altmejd, review, April
2008
Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN, Jill Viney: Barrow, catalog essay
2007
Florida Museum of Art, DeLand, FL, Anna Tomczak: In Retrospect , catalog essay for Sanctuary
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, The Wall Opens, catalog essay for Optical Allusions
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Free Play, guest curator’s statement
Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, Inventory Control, catalog essay
2006
ISC Press, Harper, Glenn; Moyer, Twylene, Editors, Hamilton, NJ, A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture since 1980, includes review Annette Messager
Sculpture, Caroline Cox, review, January/February
2005
Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Shigeno Ichimura, catalog essay
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Nazario, Isabel; Wechsler, Jeffrey; Ficarra, Marianne, Editors, Transcultural New Jersey: Diverse Artists Shaping Culture and Communities, Volume II, includes essay, The Space Between Words: Four Cultures/Four Artists
2004
Amanda Palmer: A Life in Art, Editor
University of MO, St. Louis, MO, Jill Viney: The Shape of Light, catalog essay
Sculpture, Up in Arms, review, January/February
2003
Aljira, Newark, NJ, Estella Lackey: The Universe Within, catalog essay
Sculpture, William Edmondson, review, January/February
Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY, Marion Held: One Illuminates the Other, catalog essay
2002
F. Donald Kenney Museum, St. Bonaventure University, NY, Ken Butler: The Anarchy of Objects, catalog essay
Sculpture, Maren Hassinger, review, May
2001
Sculpture, Focus: Ken Butler, The Voice of Anxious Objects, feature article, January/February
2000
Sculpture, (Still) Getting Inside/Getting Outside: A Conversation with Terry Adkins, cover article, April
1999
Sculpture, Mia Westerlund Roosen, review, May
Sculpture, Thomas Koole, review, January/February
1998
Sculpture, Focus: Mary Ann Unger, feature article, April
1997
Sculpture, Christopher Lesnewski, review, October
Sculpture, Annette Messager, review, May
Art Papers, Drawing Destiny: Jackie Otto-Miller, feature article, March/April
Sculpture, Jackie Ferrara, review, January
1996
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Marks and Metaphor, Creighton Michael: Drawings 1990 - 1995, catalog essay
Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY, Chuck Connelly, catalog essay
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL, Tanja Softic, catalog essay
1995
Art Papers, Chuck Connelly, review, April/May,
1994
Art Papers, Face of the Gods, review, November/December
Art Papers, Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger, review, September/October
Art Papers, Kiki Smith, review, March/April
Art Papers, Orlan, review, March/April
Art Papers, Daniel Weiner, review, January/February
1993
Art Papers, Ted Victoria, review, September/October
1992
Art Papers, White Lies /Selective Truths, review, May/June
1991
Valencia College, Orlando, FL, Bill Paul: Scents and Shivers, catalog essay
1990
Valencia College, Orlando, FL, Terry Adkins: Getting Inside/Getting Outside, catalog essay
1987
Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Jerry Cutler: Archetype of Light, catalog essay
1986
North Miami Museum, North Miami, FL Centrifugal Force, catalog essay
SELECTED EDITORIAL PROJECTS
2019
Janet Nolan, The Art of Redemption, Editor
2013
Alyce Simon, Artist of the Atomic Age, Editor
2004
Amanda Palmer, A Liife in Art, Editor
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007
Islip Art Museum, Free Play, East Islip, NY
Dowling College, Inventory Control, Oakdale, NY
Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at Atlantic Center for the Arts,
Cortland, NY
2006
Delaware Art Museum, Icons & Idols, The Photographs of Jack Mitchell, (Organized for Atlantic Center for the Arts), Wilmington, DE
2005
Marsh Gallery, Icons & Idols, The Photographs of Jack Mitchell, (Organized for Atlantic Center for the Arts), University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
The Andy Warhol Museum, Icons & Idols, The Photographs of Jack Mitchell, (Organized for Atlantic Center for the Arts),
Pittsburgh, PA
2004
Charles M. Avampato Discovery Museum, Icons & Idols, The Photographs of Jack Mitchell, (Organized for Atlantic Center for the Arts), Charleston, WV
Kean University, The Space Between Words, Union, NJ
2003
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Icons & Idols, The Photographs of Jack Mitchell, (Organized for Atlantic Center for the Arts),
Nashville, TN
ISE Cultural Foundation, Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at Atlantic Center for the Arts, New York, NY
2002
Wake Forest University, Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
2001
The von Liebig Art Center, Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL
Miami-Dade Community College, Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Miami, FL
University of Tampa, Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Tampa, FL
2000
Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science, Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at Atlantic Center for the Arts,
Tallahassee, FL
Pensacola Museum of Art, Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Pensacola, FL
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Winter Park, FL
1997
Sculpture Center, Maggie Poor, New York, NY
1996
Vanderbilt University, Marks and Metaphor, Creighton Michael: Drawings 1990 - 1995, Nashville,TN
Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Body Language, co-curator Adam Straus, Tallahassee, FL
1992
Valencia College, The Forceful Gesture (including Sandy Winters, Carolanna Parlato, David Mann, Gary Petersen, China Marks), Orlando, FL
Valencia College, Embracing the Void (including Elisa D’Arrigo, Jackie Brookner, Nene Humphrey, Dina Ghen), Orlando, FL
1991
Valencia College, Disjunctive (David Finn, Nancy Grimes, Nancy Cohen, Jeff Whipple), Orlando, FL
Valencia College, Scents and Shivers (an installation by Bill Paul), Orlando, FL
1990
Valencia College, Exposed (Betty Tomkins, Arnold Mesches, Deborah Masters, Grace Graupe-Pillard), Orlando, FL
Valencia College, Terry Adkins: Getting Inside/Getting Outside, Orlando, FL
1989
Valencia College, Ground Works (including Lesley Dill, Peter Brown, Julie Gross, Darra Keeton, Margo Margolis),
Orlando, FL
Valencia College, Upstarts (Maria Martinez-Canas, Scott Meikle, Joel Whitaker, Joy Brace, Dan Ross), Orlando, FL
Valencia College, Bound Visions (including Purvis Young, Bill Paul, Joni Mabe), Orlando, FL
1988
Valencia College, The Transcendent Image (including Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Danny Lyon, Alfred Stieglitz, Judy Dater),
Orlando, FL
Valencia College, Freneticism (including James Herbert, Judy McWillie, Alexa Kleinbard, Victor Faccinto, Ke Francis, Mark Messersmith), Orlando, FL
Valencia College, William Schaaf: A Twenty Year Retrospective, Orlando, FL
Valencia College, Strike: Voices for Nature (Carol Hepper, Petah Coyne, Ellen Driscoll, Heide Fasnacht), Orlando, FL
1987
Valencia College, Portals: Points of Entry (including Michael Graves, Richard Meier, Robert A. M. Stern, William Pedersen), Orlando, FL
Valencia College, Woman as Subject (including Evon Streetman, Anna Tomczak, Wallace Wilson, Peter Iverson, Diane Farris),
Orlando, FL
1986
Valencia College, Dark Times/Dark Places (including Adam Straus, Joni Mabe, Don Cooper, Robert Hausey, Sam Losavio), Orlando, FL
Valencia College, On Site/Insight (including Jack Gron, Thomas Koole, Ward Shelley, Gena Ellis, Fernando Garcia), Orlando, FL
North Miami Museum, Centrifugal Force, Miami, FL
1985
Valencia College, Spirit Drawings (Maggie Davis, William Schaaf, Carol Cornelison), Orlando, FL
Valencia College, The Interior as Metaphor (including Arturo Rodriguez, Maria Brito, Cheryl Goldsleger, Robert Calvo,
Jim Cogswell), Orlando, FL
Valencia College, Scott Richter: Elvis or Oedipus Series, Orlando, FL
Valencia College, Shared Visions/Separate Realities (David Butler, John Geldersma), Orlando, FL, traveled nationally
1984
Valencia College, Dottie Attie: The Mechanical Peep Show, Orlando, FL
1983
Valencia College, Sculptors’ Drawings (including Mel Kendrick, Mia Westerlund Roosen, Robert Thiele, Guy-Dorian Cristol), Orlando, FL
Valencia College, 100 Gloves (including Jim Roche, William Walmsley, Paul Wong, Elena Presser, Masumi Hayashi, Jim Couper), Orlando, FL, traveled nationally
1981
Valencia College, Drawing: A Florida Perspective (including Marcia Isaacson, Trevor Bell, Jill Cannady, Robert Fichter), Orlando, FL
SELECTED PANELS AND LECTURES
2023
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Lectures
2021-2022
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Lectures
2020
Review Panel, ProArts, Jersey City, NJ
2019-20
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Lectures
2017-18
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Lectures
2015
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Lecture; Visiting Artist
Review Panel, ProArts, Jersey City, NJ
2014
Review Panel, ProArts, Jersey City, NJ
2013
Review Panel, ProArts, Jersey City, NJ
2012
Stetson University, DeLand, FL, Lecture
Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD, Visiting Artist
2011
Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD, Visiting Artist
2010
City College, New York, NY, Visiting Artist
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Visiting Critic
2009
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Lecture
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Lecture
The Artists Circle, New York University, New York, NY, Lecture
2008
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, Lecture
2007
DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn, NY, Artist Opportunity Workshop, Panel Moderator
SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY, Gallery Talk
Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, Gallery Talk
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, Visiting Lecturer
2006
Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Brooklyn, NY, Guest Critic
DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn, NY, Artist Opportunity Workshop, Panel Moderator
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Lecture
2005
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, Lecture
2004
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Lecture
Kean University, Union, NJ, Panel Moderator, The Space Between Words
2003
ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY, Panel Moderator, Breaking Boundaries
County of Essex, Department of Cultural Affairs, Newark, NJ, Lecture
2002
South Texas Sculpture Symposium, San Antonio, TX, Lecture
Jersey City Museum, Pro Arts, Jersey City, NJ, Lecture
2001
The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL, Lecture
University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, Lecture
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL, Lecture
2000
Pensacola Art Museum, Pensacola, FL, Lecture
Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, FL, Lecture
Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ, Panelist, The Art of Criticism
1999
Thomas Center, Gainesville, FL, Panelist, Politics, Money and Ethics
1993
WBAI, New York, NY, Guest Host (interviewing Robert C. Morgan), Art Breaking
1992
South Florida Art Center, Miami, FL, Lecture, Women Sculptors in New York
1991
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, Panelist, What is Freedom of Expression
Winter Park Public Library, Winter Park, FL, Panelist, Censorship
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, Panelist, Censorship and Obscenity in the Arts: Public Attitudes/Legal Problems
1987
Thomas Center, Gainesville, FL, Panelist, Women in Art: Accomplishments and Opportunities
1984
Southeastern Regional Society for Photographic Education, Tallahassee, FL Panelist, Showing Your Stuff
Southeastern Museum Conference, Tampa, FL, Panelist, University Museums and City Audiences
Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona, FL, Panelist, Small Business Success, Art and the Artist
1982
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, Panelist, Woman, the Creator: The State of Her Art and Image
VIDEOS/FILMS
1992-1993
Out-Takes, Independent Film Production, Art Director; Costume Designer, New York, NY
1988-1992
Visiting Artist Series, Video Production, Editor, Producer (includes Arnold Mesches, Lesley Dill, Terry Adkins, Betty Tompkins, Jackie Brookner, Bill Paul), Valencia College, Orlando, FL
1987
Twenty Years: A Documentation, Video Production, Executive Producer, Writer, Valencia College, Orlando, FL
1986
Shared Visions/Separate Realities, Video Production, Editor, Executive Producer, Valencia College, Orlando, FL
On Site/Insight, Video Production, Editor, Executive Producer, Valencia College, Orlando, FL
EXHIBITION AND PERFORMANCE GRANTS
1991-1992
Division of Cultural Affairs, State of Florida, Embracing the Void
1990-1991
Division of Cultural Affairs, State of Florida, Bill Paul: Scents and Shivers
1990
Florida Dance Association, Critical Art Ensemble
1989-1990
Division of Cultural Affairs, State of Florida, Terry Adkins: Getting Inside/Getting Outside
1988-1989
Division of Cultural Affairs, State of Florida, Freneticism
l987-1988
Division of Cultural Affairs, State of Florida, Strike: Voices for Nature
1986-1987
Division of Cultural Affairs, State of Florida, Twenty Years: A Celebration
1985
Southern Arts Federation, Shared Visions:Separate Realities
1984-1985
Division of Cultural Affairs, State of Florida, Ted Victoria/James Byrne
1983
Southern Arts Federation, 100 Gloves
JUROR
2020
Curator’s Choice, Pro Arts, Jersey City, NJ
2016
Images, A Festival of the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2013-2015
Curator’s Choice, Pro Arts, Jersey City, NJ
2012
DeLand Fall Festival of the Arts, DeLand, FL
2007
Essex Exposed 5, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2006
Carriage House Projects, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2004
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation (Pennsylvania and New Jersey Individual Artists Fellowships), Baltimore, MD
1999-2003
Emerge, Aljira, Newark, NJ
1992
Figurative Small Works, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
1991
W.C.A. Juried Exhibition, Miami, FL
North Florida Meets Florida Craftsmen, Florida Craftsmen Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
1990
Lee County Alliance of the Arts Juried Exhibition, Ft. Myers, FL
Artist Market, Arts Festival of Atlanta, GA
1989
Visual Arts Organization Panel, Division of Cultural Affairs, State of Florida
Annual Juried Exhibition, Arts on the Park, Lakeland, FL
1988
Annual Student Art Exhibition, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
This Is Not A Theme Show, Florida Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL
1987
Fall for the Arts, Brevard Community College, Melbourne, FL
Longboat Key All Media Show, Longboat Key, FL
Lake Jackson Spring Art Show, Sebring, FL
1986
Annual Student Juried Exhibition, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
1984-1986
Visual Arts Selection Panel, South Carolina Arts Commission
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2013-2023
Director of Programs, Tree of Life, Winston-Salem, NC
2011-2021
Board of Directors, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2011-2019
New York Foundation of the Arts, Doctor’s Hours Consultant
2011-2023
Board of Directors, Tree of Life Foundation
1993-2023
Independent Curator and Arts Consultant
1992-2021
Art Critic, Sculpture magazine; Art Papers; catalog essays
2005
Benefit Committee, Groundswell, Brooklyn, NY
2004-2023
Member, American Association of Museums
1998-2007
Curator and Project Director, traveling exhibition and lecture program, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
1999-2004
Founding Program Director, Emerge, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
1992-1993
Member, Eye on Art, Committee, OIA, New York, NY
1979-1992
Gallery Director, Valancia College Art Galleries, Orlando, FL
1991-1992
Member, Florida Art Museum Directors Association
Member, Southeastern College Art Conference
Member, Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1990-1992
Board of Trustees, Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL,
1986-1988
Member, Associate Board, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Board of Trustees, Tropical Theater, Orlando, FL
1982-1984
Florida Representative to American Craft Council’s Southeast Region
1983
Chairperson, Focus ‘83: Southeast Crafts, Orlando, FL
1982-1983
Member, Associate Board, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
1980
Board of Directors, Florida Craftsmen
1978-1979
Board of Trustees, Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL,
President of Florida Craftsmen
1977-1978
Representative, Central Florida Council of Arts and Sciences, Orlando, FL
1977
Chairperson, 1977 Florida Craftsmen Juried Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
TEACHING
2010-2016
Faculty, MFA Fine Arts Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2006-2011
Adjunct Faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2004-2006
Visiting Faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1999-2004
Program Director, Aljira, Emerge Program, Newark, NJ, Post Graduate Seminars
2001
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, Seminar