Experience

El Museo del Barrio
• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Permanent Collections Associate Curator

  • Jul 2022 - Present

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
• Arts Administrator

  • Dec 2021 - Jun 2022


Jonathan Silver Foundation

• United States
• Entertainment Providers

• Database Consultant

  • May 2021 - Apr 2022

  Designing custom web-based FileMaker Pro database to inventory thousands of artworks and hundreds of interviews, videos, and studio shots Designing custom web-based FileMaker Pro database to inventory thousands of artworks and hundreds of interviews, videos, and studio shots



New York Botanical Garden

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Andrew W. Mellon Fellow

  • Sep 2020 - Jun 2021

  Curated four online exhibitions on US botanical expeditions to Cuba, including writing texts and overseeing all photography and digital exhibition design, to make library collections more digitally accessible to the public. Curated four online exhibitions on US botanical expeditions to Cuba, including writing texts and overseeing all photography and digital exhibition design, to make library collections more digitally accessible to the public.



Yale University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Student, History of Art

  • Jul 2013 - May 2020

  Focusing on the Caribbean basin in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with special interest in the establishment of art academies, landscape painting as a way of thinking through emerging national identity, and issues of race and class embedded in artistic discourse. Focusing on the Caribbean basin in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with special interest in the establishment of art academies, landscape painting as a way of thinking through emerging national identity, and issues of race and class embedded in artistic discourse.



Yale Center For British Art

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Sep 2014 - May 2015

  Researched objects and produced and edited texts for Art and the British Empire, including catalog essays, wall texts, and grant proposals; maintained and organized objects included in exhibition in TMS Researched objects and produced and edited texts for Art and the British Empire, including catalog essays, wall texts, and grant proposals; maintained and organized objects included in exhibition in TMS



The Brooklyn Museum

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos

• Curatorial Assistant

  • Oct 2011 - Jul 2013

  Provide administrative support and research assistance for six curators in various fields; research, produce texts, and edit texts for upcoming exhibitions including grant applications, wall labels, and internal documents

• Curatorial Intern

  • May 2011 - Sep 2011

  Assisted with planning an exhibition of Spanish colonial art by conducting research on provenance of objects and cultural issues of the period, helping to finalize lists of objects for inclusion in exhibition, creating bibliography of sources, and maintaining exhibition records in TMS and Microsoft Access; researched and drafted texts for wall labels, deaccessions, and exhibition loan proposals



Various visual artists

• Freelance artist assistant

  • May 2010 - Jul 2013

  Create and maintain websites of artist portfolios; produce inventories of artworks and take photographs; find venues for traveling exhibitions and help plan exhibition shipping details, publicity and artist events Create and maintain websites of artist portfolios; produce inventories of artworks and take photographs; find venues for traveling exhibitions and help plan exhibition shipping details, publicity and artist events



Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

• Venezuela
• Fine Art
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Curatorial Intern

  • Sep 2010 - May 2011

  Researched artists and produced in-house texts for over 75 artworks in a private collection of Latin American art; interviewed artists regarding works in the collection; created educational materials for public audiences on a new installation Researched artists and produced in-house texts for over 75 artworks in a private collection of Latin American art; interviewed artists regarding works in the collection; created educational materials for public audiences on a new installation



New York University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Events Assistant, Institute of Fine Arts

  • Jan 2010 - May 2010

  Organized logistics for 20 lectures and receptions to supplement the academic mission of the Institute; managed the daily paperwork of the events office including all invoices, bills, and reimbursements Organized logistics for 20 lectures and receptions to supplement the academic mission of the Institute; managed the daily paperwork of the events office including all invoices, bills, and reimbursements



Lohin Geduld Gallery

• United States
• Artists and Writers

• Gallery Coordinator

  • Aug 2003 - Aug 2009

  Worked with the director to grow a ground-level gallery in Chelsea from first opening to full-time operation with a staff of four and a roster of twenty artists, coordinated over 50 exhibitions and four art fair booths; managed all administrative and technological needs of the office, produced all financial paperwork and records; designed and distributed all press and educational material including five exhibition catalogs, gave bi-weekly gallery talks to visiting groups; created and maintained GalleryPro database; assisted clients on all aspects of purchases from first outreach to processing of invoices and installation of works Show less