national park service
“Allstadt House and Ordinary Historic Structures Report.” National Park Service, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Anticipated 2026. (Contributing Author)
“234 Sunset Avenue (King Family Home) Interior Finishes Study.” National Park Service, Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historical Park. 2025. (Lead Author)
“Burnside-Dellinger House Historic Structures Report.” National Park Service, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. 2025. (Lead Author)
“Prairie Creek Fish Hatchery Historic Structures Report.” National Park Service, Redwood National and State Parks. 2025. (Contributing Author)
presentations
“Testing Traditional Materials for Flood Resilience.” National Park Service Lunch Talk, January 2025.
“Starting from Scratch. The Dellinger House and its people, 1807-1977.” Maryland Historic Trust Architectural Fieldwork Symposium, March 2024.
“First Impressions: Plans and Prints of Colonial Georgia,” MESDA 2024 Conference, March 2024.
“Georgia on My Mind: Illustrating Imagination in the 18th Century.” MESDA Summer Institute Symposium, June 2023.
websites
“Nitza D. Lyman: Greek-American Artist.” Launched 2024.
Website and curatorial project completed in conjunction with Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago exhibition at The Newberry Library (December 12, 2024 – March 29, 2025).
“James Milton Sessions.” Launched 2022.
Website and curatorial project developed for a client.
“Henni Lehmann Catalogue Raisonée.” Launched 2020.
Website and digital catalog for German artist and activist Henni Lehmann.
university of virginia
“The Sinking Settlement.“ An assessment of Historic Jamestowne, rising sea levels, and heritage risk management practices in the United States. This project served as a launching point for a collaborative nature-based design project with Colonial National Historical Park (COLO) and UVA graduate students and faculty.
“Preserving the Public’s Place.“ An analysis of preservation planning issues in Charlottesville’s historic Downtown Mall as it celebrates 50 years. Completed as a final project and presentation for Preservation Planning (PLAN 5300).
“3D Cultural Heritage Informatics.” Examples of 3D scanning work completed in Spring 2022, including artifacts, historic homes, and cultural landscapes. Featured sites: Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, UVA’s Sunnyside House, and the St. John Rosenwald School in Albemarle County, Virginia.
“The Plague in the Passageway.” An urban analysis of a highly-decorated sotoportego in Venice, Italy with special symbolic and cultural significance: according to legend, it once stopped the plague from entering a neighborhood.
“The Façade’s Façade.” A study of the history, materiality, and preservation of red wash, a reddish pigment historically applied to brick structures to brighten their exteriors and demonstrate wealth and power.
writing
“Dinorá Justice: Entwined at Gallery NAGA.” New Art Examiner, Winter 2025.
“Boston Public Art Triennial.” New Art Examiner, Fall 2025.
“UNCANNY at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.” New Art Examiner, Spring 2025.
“Sarah Irvin’s ‘Unstable Propositions’, Tephra ICA at Signature.” New Art Examiner, Fall 2024.
“Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts.” New Art Examiner, Winter 2024.
“Women in American Abstraction, 1930-1950.” IdeelArt Magazine, November 2021.
“How Painters Eleven Members Brought Abstract Art to Canada.” IdeelArt Magazine, June 2021.
“Virtual Visual Culture.” New Art Examiner, Summer 2020.
“Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Art — Faculty Showcase.” New Art Examiner, Spring 2020.
“Tetsuya Noda: Soft and Simple Depth.” New Art Examiner, Summer 2019.
“Considering Art Brut Through New Lenses.” Art Media Agency, Arles 2019 Newsletter 318, July 2019.
“The Photobook, A History.” Art Media Agency, Arles 2019 Newsletter 318, July 2019.
“Rekjavik Day Hikes.” Global Treks and Adventures, Iceland Guidebook, Summer 2019.
“Encountering ‘William Counter: Simples Spells’ at Firecat Projects.” New Art Examiner, Spring 2019.
“The Inner Workings of Outsider Art – Interviews with Carl Hammer and Scott Ogden.” Art Media Agency, Outsider Art Fair 2019 Newsletter 313, January 2019.
“The Secrets of Storage,” an online blog published with the Smart Museum of Art (Summer/Fall 2018)
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