Education
The University of Texas at Austin - PhD in Art History (Portfolio in Native American and Indigenous Studies), 2016-2023
Dissertation: “Turning Back, Looking Forward: Framing Landscape and Identity in the Photography of Tseng Kwong Chi, Carrie Mae Weems, and Will Wilson”
University of Delaware - Master of Arts in Art History, 2014-2016
The University of Texas at Austin - Bachelor of Arts with Special Honors in Art History, 2012-2014
School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Attended, no degree in Art History, 2010-2011
Professional Experience
Arts administration & Curatorial
Exhibitions and Collections Manager, Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS), The University of Texas at Austin [April 2024-current]
Curatorial Assistant for Photography, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin [September - December 2022; June 2023-November 2023]
Curatorial Fellow, Visual Arts Center (VAC), The University of Texas at Austin [September 2019 - August 2020]
Mellon Foundation Native American Curatorial Internship, Fred Jones Jr., Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma [May - August 2019]
Collections Management Assistant, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies (now the Art Galleries at Black Studies), The University of Texas at Austin [January 2017 - August 2018]
teaching
Instructor of Record: ARH 303- Survey Renaissance to Modern Art, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin [Spring 2022]
Instructor of Record: ARH 303- Survey Renaissance to Modern Art, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin [Fall 2021]
Teaching Assistant: ARH 347L- Mesoamerican Art, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin [Spring 2019]
Teaching Assistant: ARH 304- Issues in Visual Culture: Animation, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin [Fall 2018]
Research & Editing
Editor, MFA Catalog, published by Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin [May - August 2022]
Research Assistant, artist book Lisa Lapinski: Drunk Hawking, co-published by Inventory Press and Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin [June 2021 - May 2022]
Exhibitions
2022
In Conversation: Will Wilson, Delaware Art Museum [Guest Curator]
2021
Zach Meisner: Film and Volume, Courtyard Gallery, AT&T Center, The University of Texas at Austin [Curator]
Will Wilson: AIR / Survey, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin [Curator]
2020
Carmen Argote: Me At Market, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin [Curatorial Assistant]
Lisa Lapinski: Drunk Hawking, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin {Curatorial Assistant]
2019
Sandy Bell Gallery Re-Installation, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma [Curator]
2019 SEU Flatfile Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, St. Edward’s University [Curated with Neon Queen Collective]
2018
Like the lonely traveler: Video works by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin [Curated with Neon Queen Collective]
Notes on Sugar: Selected Works by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Christian-Green Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin [Curated with Neon Queen Collective]
2017
How We Become Human: Selections for Native American Heritage Month, Fine Arts Library, The University of Texas at Austin [Curator]
Gordon-White Building Re-Installation, The University of Texas at Austin [Curator]
2016
Lasting Impressions: The Artists of Currier & Ives, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library [Curatorial Assistant]
Writing
Peer-Reviewed
"The Quiet Landscapes of Carrie Mae Weems's The Louisiana Project." In Rutgers Art Review, vol. 39 (Spring 2023).
“Leigh, Simone.” Grove Art Online, March 14, 2022.
“Nengudi, Senga.” Grove Art Online, March 14, 2022.
“Walker, Kara.” Grove Dictionary of Art Online, November 11, 2021. [revised]
Edited Collections
[Forthcoming] “Will Wilson: Connecting the Dots of Uranium Extraction on the Navajo Nation.” Digging Earth: Extractivism and Resistance on Indigenous lands of the Americas, ed. Catherine Bernard. Cambridge: Ethics International Press, 2023.
“Seeking Hózhó: The Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes of Will Wilson’s AIR Weaves.” In Elusive Archives: The Persistence of Passing Things, pp. 169-178. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2021.
Book Reviews
“Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country by Marisa Elena Duarte,” in E3W Review of Books, v. 20 (Spring 2020).
Exhibition Catalogs
(Forthcoming) “Adrian Armstrong,” “taylor barnes,” “Elisha Luckett.” In The Small Black Museum Residency Project. Austin: The George W. Carver Museum & Genealogy Center, TBD. Exhibition catalog.
Zach Meisner: Film and Volume. Austin: Courtyard Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, 2021. Exhibition brochure.
Will Wilson: AIR / Survey. Austin: Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2021. Exhibition brochure. [Editor and Author]
“Introduction” and “Will Shea.” In _____: Revisited: 2020 Studio MFA Thesis Exhibition, unpaginated. Austin: Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2020. Exhibition catalog.
Tammie Rubin: Everything You Ever. Austin: Women & Their Work Gallery, 2019. Exhibition catalog. [Co-author with Neon Queen Collective]
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Notes on Sugar / Like the lonely traveler. San Francisco: Wendi Norris Gallery, 2018. Exhibition catalog. [Co-author and Editor with Neon Queen Collective]
“riel Sturchio (sic).” In Affordable Dream House: 2018 Studio MFA Thesis Exhibition, unpaginated. Austin: Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2018. Exhibition catalog.
“Rachael Starbuck.” In Trouble: 2017 Studio MFA Thesis Exhibition, pp. 68-69. Austin: Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2017. Exhibition catalog.
Exhibition Reviews & Interviews
“The Long Road to ‘Native America: In Translation,’” Glasstire, December 3, 2024.
“The Lure of Places Past: Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler’s “Past Deposits from a Future Yet to Come,” and the Waterloo Greenway Vision,” Glasstire, July 21, 2024. (En español)
“Why Should I Not Imagine it? A Conversation with Rodell Warner,” Glasstire, June 28, 2024.
“Sensing Marfa’s Many Topographies: A Review of Roberto Carlos Lange’s and Kristi Sword’s Kite Symphony,” Sightlines Magazine, February 16, 2022.
“Ariel René Jackson and Michael J. Love imagine a Black futurist family archive,” Sightlines Magazine, December 1, 2021.
“At grayDUCK Gallery, ‘small acts’ makes a big impact,” Sightlines Magazine, November 3, 2021.
“Call and Response: A Conversation with Jeffrey Gibson,” Sightlines Magazine, August 16, 2019.
“Trying to get present: Black Mountain Project’s constant escape,” Sightlines Magazine, April 27, 2019.
“Michael Love’s Gon’ Head And Put Your Records On: A Conversation,” Neon Queen Collective (Jessi DiTillio, Kaila Schedeen, Phillip Townsend) Fusebox Festival Blog 2019, April 2019.
“My, my, my: Jack Ferver’s Mon, Ma, Mes,” Fusebox Festival Blog 2019, April 2019.
“Say Their Names: Taja Lindley’s The Bag Lady Manifesta,” Fusebox Festival Blog 2019, April 2019.
“Justin Favela and ¿QUIHÚBOLE?,” Fusebox Festival Blog 2019, April 15, 2019.
“Rachel Winston: Archives as Activism,” Sightlines Magazine, January 31, 2019.
“A Response to Tania El Khoury’s As Far As My Fingertips Take Me,” Fusebox Festival Blog 2018, April 2018.
“A Conversation About Charles Anderson’s (Re)current Unrest,” Neon Queen Collective (Jessi DiTillio, Kaila Schedeen, Phillip Townsend) Fusebox Festival Blog 2018, April 2018.
“Justin Shoulder on Carrion,” Neon Queen Collective, Fusebox Festival Written and Spoken, June 6, 2018.
Events
Invited Talks
“Issues in the Display of Native North American Art,” Guest Speaker in the course (In)Visibility of Blackness: Ethics of the Contemporary Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, March 18, 2024; March 1, 2023; February 16, 2022
“Art Bridges Chat: Indigeneity in Art Museums,” Art Bridges Foundation, November 15, 2022
Gallery Talks for Jeffrey Gibson: This is the Day, Blanton Museum of Art, August 3 & September 26, 2019
Presentations
“The Affectual Landscapes of Carrie Mae Weems’s The Louisiana Project,” 10th Annual Rutgers Art History Graduate Student Symposium: Constructed Realities, April 24, 2020
“Turning Back, Looking Forward: Manifesting Futures in Will Wilson’s Auto Immune Response,” on the panel “Indigenous Futurisms,” 108th Annual College Art Association Conference, February 15, 2020
“’The chambermaid, the whore, and the witness’: Carrie Mae Weems’s The Louisiana Project,” Eleanor Greenhill Symposium, The University of Texas at Austin, March 9, 2019
“Beaded Borders: Performing the Edge in Will Wilson’s AIR Weaves,” Art on the Edge: Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries, Challenging Conventions, UCLA Graduate Student Symposium, October 21, 2017
“Seeking Hózhó: The Material Landscapes of Will Wilson’s AIR Weaves,” The Refuge of Objects/ Objects of Refuge Conference, Universität Mainz, Germany, December 14-18, 2016
Group Talks
“Art with an Expert — Native America: In Translation,” Blanton Museum of Art, October 12, 2024.
“Indigenous Plants and Well-Being: A Conversation with Marika Alvarado and Will Wilson,” Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin, March 3, 2021
“AIR/Survey: A Conversation with Will Wilson,” Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin, January 28, 2021
“A Hemispheric Dialogue on Indigenous Visual Representation: Norma Martinez, Angela Tapia, Will Wilson,” Indigenous Arts Fest, The University of Texas at Austin, October 5, 2018
Gallery Talk and Catalogue Launch with Neon Queen Collective, Christian-Green Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, May 3, 2018
Mekko Film Screening and Conversation with Director Sterlin Harjo, Indigenous Arts Fest, The University of Texas at Austin, November 10, 2017
Metis Kitchen Table Talk Panel, Indigenous Art: New Media and the Digital, Native American Art Studies Association Conference, October 25-28, 2017
Programs & Symposia Organized
Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX) Photoshoot with Will Wilson, Delaware Art Museum, May 14, 2022
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, March 12, 2020
“Possessed: The Material Culture of Ownership,” Co-chair, 14th Annual Emerging Scholars Symposium, Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware in collaboration with Winterthur Museum, April 22-23, 2016, Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mique’l Dangeli
Awards & Fellowships
2023
Graduate School Spring 2023 Dissertation Writing Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin
2022
Graduate School Summer 2022 Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin
2020
College of Fine Arts / Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin
(Declined) Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Modern and Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art
Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund Scholarship, The Pittsburgh Foundation
Professional Development Award, The Graduate School, The University of Texas at Austin
Summer Research Grant, Native American and Indigenous Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
(Honorable Mention) Outstanding Graduate Student Award, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
2019
Summer Award for Upper Division and Graduate Students, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University
Summer Research Grant, Native American and Indigenous Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Summer Research Grant, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin
2018
Summer Research Grant, Native American and Indigenous Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
2017
Conference Travel Award, Native American Art Studies Association
Graduate Student Travel Grant, John L. Warfield Center for African & African American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Summer Research Grant, Native American and Indigenous Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Summer Research Grant, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin
2016
Center for the Studies of Africa and its Diasporas Scholarship, The University of Texas at Austin
College of Fine Arts Scholarship, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin
University Service
2020-2021
Graduate Student Assembly Representative, Native American and Indigenous Peoples Association, The University of Texas at Austin
2019-2020
PhD Co-Chair, Graduate Student Art History Association, The University of Texas at Austin
2017-2018
Outreach Coordinator, Graduate Student Art History Association, The University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Student Assembly Representative, Art History, The University of Texas at Austin
2016-2017
Conservation Volunteer, Landmarks Preservation Guild, The University of Texas at Austin
2015-2016
Graduate Student Lecture Series Committee, Department of Art History, University of Delaware