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Education
Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York, NY, 2015
Georgetown University, M.A., Communication, Culture and Technology, Washington, DC, 2009
Thesis: Leaving Something to the Imagination: Neo-Burlesque, Gendered Spectacle, and New Subcultural Forms
Maryland Institute College of Art, B.F.A., Photography (cum laude), Baltimore, MD, 2005
Select Curatorial Projects
Blue Freedom: Ebtisam Abdulaziz, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC, November 17 – December 10, 2017
Close at Hand, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Gallery, Washington, DC, October 6 – November 10, 2017
Footprint aka The Lansburgh’s Notebook, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC, April 15 – May 6, 2017
FAILED EVOLUTION, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY, February 28 – March 6, 2017 (co-curator)
Strange Landscapes, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, June 25 – October 2, 2016 (co-curator)
Full-Scale Exercise, Field Projects at Artist-Run, SATELLITE, Miami, FL, December 1 – 6, 2015
Marginalias, Field Projects, New York, NY, September 3 – October 24, 2015
S/N, The Kitchen, New York, NY, May 22 – June 13, 2015 (co-curator)
Strange Bedfellows, presented by Washington Project for the Arts at VisArts, Rockville, MD, October 17 – November 23, 2014
Social Construction, Wyatt Gallery, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, May 10 – June 9, 2013
Something Other Than the Present, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC, June 17 – July 17, 2011
Barter, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, July 2 – July 30, 2010
Press
In the galleries: Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, November 30, 2017
In the galleries: Close at Hand, Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, October 27, 2017
What It Was: Gentrification and Recent Art History in DC, Mike Iacovone, BmoreArt, April 21, 2017
In the galleries: A visual guide to a shrinking arts scene, Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, April 27, 2017
More Than You Can Chew: Priorities for Armory Week in New York, Natalie Hegert, MutualArt/Huffington Post, March 1, 2017
Inside SPRING/BREAK, The Best Armory Arts Week Fair Inside a Times Square Office Building, Scott Lynch, Gothamist, March 1, 2017
Wild World, Mike Iacovone, BmoreArt, September 30, 2016
Excavating the Layers Under the Landscape, Alexis Clements, Hyperallergic, September 16, 2016
In the galleries: Strange Landscapes explores gardens of unearthly delights, Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, September 15, 2016
11 Artists Give Landscape Art a Much-Needed Makeover, Andrew Nunes, The Creators Project, August 12, 2016
Landscape Art is Pushed to New Limits in Arlington Arts Center’s ‘Strange Landscapes’, Erin Devine, Washington City Paper, July 22, 2016
Writing
Temporary Art: Remembering DC’s Artist-Run Spaces
in We’re SO not getting our security deposit back: A guide to defunct artist-run spaces, DC Edition, Beltway Public Works and ArtFCity, Natalie Campbell, Paddy Johnson, and Blair Murphy ed., October, 2017
National Museum of Women in the Arts Celebrates Judy Chicago’s Landmark ‘Dinner Party’, Interview with Judy Chicago, DCist, September 12, 2017
Why Eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts Would Hurt Rural Americans the Most, Hyperallergic, May 31, 2017
In a Performance, a Soundscape Invokes the Brutality of Slavery
Hyperallergic, Nov. 17, 2016
Call and Response
in S/N, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Benjamin Young, ed., May, 2015
Additional arts coverage and criticism for BmoreArt, DCist, Hyperallergic, Daily Serving, and other outlets.
Select Speaking Engagements
Free Parking: The Jefferson Place Gallery, American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, October 12
Luce Artist Talk for Footprint aka The Lansburgh’s Notebook, Luce Foundation Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum, April 30, 2017
IN: Blair Murphy, Podcast hosted by NLS, Kingston, Jamaica, November 17, 2015
Listen to the podcast
DIY Education Experiments, CAA at CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, February 13, 2015 with BFAMFAPhD
The Artist as Debtor, Cooper Union, New York, NY, January 23, 2015 with BFAMFAPhD
Crossing Brooklyn First Saturday, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, January 3, 2015 with BFAMFAPhD
Slide Sessions: A Stitch in Time, presented by NURTUREart at Brooklyn Fireproof East, Brooklyn, NY, October 20, 2014
DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous, National Academy of the Sciences, Washington, DC, May 24, 2012
Related Professional Experience
DC Arts Center, Managing Director
Washington, DC, November 2016 – Present
Field Projects, Partner
New York, NY, June 2015 – September 2016
Washington Project for the Arts, Program Director
Washington, DC, March 2011 – September 2013
Washington Project for the Arts, Membership Director
Washington, DC, July 2010 – March 2011
District of Columbia Arts Center, Office Manager
Washington, DC, August 2007 – July 2010
Provisions Library, Program Associate
Washington, DC, September, 2005 – July 2007
Professional Affiliations
Member, ArtTable, New York, NY and Washington, DC, 2013-Present
Advisory Committee Member, NLS, Kingston, Jamaica, 2012-Present
Curator, Sparkplug Artist Collective, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC, 2009-2012