Experience

United States Mint

• United States
• Government Administration
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Heritage Assets Project: Collections Manager

  • Nov 2012 - Present

  Overall responsibility for daily activities related to assessment, inventory, accessioning, cataloguing, photography, condition reporting, storage and database entry for over 30,000 artifacts. Review and implement Standard Operating Procedures for U.S. Mint artifacts. Determine and implement database nomenclature. Supervise art handlers. Overall responsibility for daily activities related to assessment, inventory, accessioning, cataloguing, photography, condition reporting, storage and database entry for over 30,000 artifacts. Review and implement Standard Operating Procedures for U.S. Mint artifacts. Determine and implement database nomenclature. Supervise art handlers.



African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP)

• Greater Philadelphia Area

• Collections Coordinator

  • May 2010 - Present

  Manage and implement preservation/inventory project for photographic images collection and African collection under Save America’s Treasures grant: • Develop cataloguing protocol: object records and images for PastPerfect database. • Over 2,000 new database records with attached images. • Archival re-housing: over 500,000 negatives; condition reports, archival re-housing for over 300 African objects. • Supervise safe handling and movements of artworks both on and off-site. • Manage and supervise collections interns. Grant-writing for IMLS and NEH Collections funding. Exhibitions condition reporting, shipping arrangements, documentation, insurance.



Philadelphia Museum of Art

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Assistant Registrar

  • May 2009 - Mar 2010

  Manage collections move of Silver, East Asian Art, Rugs, Tapestries, and Architectural Stone Collections to new storage. • Extensive use of The Museum System (TMS) database: Create, update object, image records. • Reconcile inventories of artworks in storage areas; catalog, tag with bar codes. • Manage inventory control procedures throughout multi-stage project. • Interact extensively with museum staff: registrars, curators, conservators. • Supervise movement of artworks to storage facility. • Architectural Stone Collection: Personal responsibility for inventory, reconciliation, digital imagery, new TMS database records with images, reorganize multiple paper files.



The Fabric Workshop and Museum

• United States
• Artists and Writers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Registrar

  • 2000 - 2008

  Collection Supervise collection of over 6,000 artworks and over 30,000 photographs and videos of artists-in-residence documenting over 30 years at FWM. • Manage collections care; packing and crating; on and off-site storage; grant funded projects; departmental budget; collections management policies; disaster preparedness plan; insurance policy; integrated pest control. Train and supervise Assistant Registrar, staff, interns, art handlers. Correspondence and research assistance: scholars, curators, conservators.• Grant-writing: Co-wrote successful conservation and collections management grants totaling over $110,000 from U.S. Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and PA Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).Exhibitions Coordinate exhibitions program • Manage incoming and outgoing loans: Object supervision, packing, shipping, insurance, paperwork, related correspondence. Maintain, review and update institutional facility report. Hire and supervise contracted art handlers. Act as courier as needed.Lenders/borrowers include: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Legion of Honor.Manage traveling exhibitions: • Contracts and contract negotiations, packing, shipping, insurance, and correspondence.Exhibitions include: New Media/New Materials: Highlights in Contemporary Art from The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2007); Doug Aitken: Interiors, PS1, New York, NY and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (2004-05); Material World: From Lichtenstein to Viola; 25 Years of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2002)Collection Move Manager (2007-08)Manage collection move from 14-year leased space to renovated building in Center City.

• Assistant Registrar

  • 1998 - 2000

  Supervised care and control of collection: cataloging, inventorying. Prepare budget. Purchase archival and collection management supplies. Develop, manage intern program. Conservation Projects Manager Managed and implemented total of $80,000 U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, Conservation Support Grants (IMLS CPS).Archival re-housing, organization: artist residency materials, including drawings, prototypes, textile silkscreen proofs, Mylar drawings and over 30,000 photos, slides, transparencies and negatives documenting activities of FWM artists-in-residence including: Louise Bourgeois, Ann Hamilton, Jun Kaneko, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Faith Ringgold, Kiki Smith, Richard Tuttle, Robert Venturi.• Maintain budget; Design project protocols; Train and supervise project assistants.