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Exhibitions Production History



Art Preparator


The Baltimore Museum of Art


Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography

Sunday, October 4, 2026 – Sunday, February 21, 2027


Matisse in Vence: The Stations of the Cross

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 – Sunday, June 28, 2026


John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog

November 16, 2025 through February 1, 2026


Amy Sherald: American Sublime

November 2, 2025 through April 6, 2026


Air Quality: The Influence of Smog on European Modernism

February 9, 2025 through February 22, 2026


Heavy with History: Devin Allen and the Baltimore Uprising

April 16, 2025 through November 30, 2026


Malcolm Peacock: a signal, a sprout

March 19, 2025 through October 26, 2025


Black Earth Rising

May 18, 2025 through September 21, 2025


National Museum of African Art


Delighting Krishna: Paintings of the Child-God

March 15–August 24, 2025


The Baltimore Museum of Art


LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors

November 3, 2024 through March 23, 2025


The Art of Pattern: Henri Matisse and Japanese Woodcut Artists

June 2, 2024 through January 5, 2025


Laura Ortman: Wood that Sings

July 17, 2024 through January 5, 2025


Caroline Monnet: River Flows Through Bent Trees

May 12, 2024 through December 1, 2024


Raul de Nieves: and imagine you are here

November 18, 2023 – December 31, 2026


Dana Claxton: Spark

August 4, 2024 through January 5, 2025


Enduring Buffalo

May 12, 2024 through December 1, 2024


Finding Home

May 12, 2024 through December 1, 2024


Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams

March 24, 2024 through July 14, 2024


Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott

November 12, 2023 through April 28, 2024


Histories Collide: Jackie Milad x Fred Wilson x Nekisha Durrett

April 26, 2023 through March 17, 2024


Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800

October 1, 2023 through January 7, 2024


The Matter of Bark Cloth

May 7, 2023 through October 1, 2023


The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

April 5, 2023 through July 16, 2023


Omar Ba: Political Animals

November 20, 2022 through April 2, 2023


A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration

October 30, 2022 through January 29, 2023


Shapeshifting: Transformations on Paper

May 8, 2022 through October 2, 2022


Thaddeus Mosley: Forest

October 17, 2021 through March 27, 2022


Museum Consultant


The Point Lobos Foundation


Whaler’s Cabin Permanent Collection Renovation

Opened Summer 2021


Art Preparator


The Baltimore Museum of Art


Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day

September 22, 2018 – March 3, 2019


The Phillips Collection


Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life

October 26, 2019 – January 26, 2020


Exhibition Specialist


Maryland Institute College of Art


First Year Experience Exhibition

August– September 2018


Memorial Exhibition, Dennis Farber

May– June 2018


MFA First Year Juried Show

August– September 2018


Commencement Exhibition

May – June 2018


Art Preparator


The American Visionary Art Museum


Frank Bruno: A Life Devoted to THE END

July 9, 2013 – February 2, 2014


THE ART OF STORYTELLING: Lies, Enchantment, Humor & Truth

October 6, 2012 – September 1, 2013


Gretchen Feldman: Love Letter to Earth

April 2012–June 2013


ALL THINGS ROUND: Galaxies, Eyeballs & Karma

October 7, 2011 – September 2, 2012


What Makes Us Smile?

October 9, 2010 – September 4, 2011


Registrar and Collections Manager


The American Visionary Art Museum


The Great Mystery Show!

October 7, 2017 – September 2 2018


Reverend Albert Lee Wagner: Miracle at Midnight

Opened June 30, 2017, Jim Rouse Visionary Center


YUMMM! The History, Fantasy, and Future of Food

October 2016 – September 3, 2017


MATT SESOW: Shock and Awe

May 27 2016 – May 28, 2017


Mr. Eddy Lives!

April 11, 2015 – April 3, 2016


The Big Hope Show

October 3, 2015 – September 4, 2016


Permanent Collection Rotation

January 2015 – present


The Visionary Experience: Saint Francis to Finster

October 4, 2014 – August 30, 2015


Curatorial Assistant


The American Visionary Art Museum


Human, Soul & Machine: The Coming Singularity!

October 5, 2013 – August 31, 2014