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2010 – 2014 Collection Manager2017 – 2022 Head of Cataloging and Digitization2022 – present Assistant Director for Cataloging and Digitization• Manage planning, budget, and 20 staff for cataloging; digital asset management; digitization; Open Access; Smithsonian Transcription Center participation; and publication management for a rapidly growing collection of 40,000+ artifacts • 48% of the collection is cataloged and online at https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collection • Core team for innovative museum digital platform, Searchable Museum https://www.searchablemuseum.com/ (2019-present)•Project manager for digitization of almost 2 million items in the Johnson Publishing Company Archive (10/2019-1/2020)• Created Collection Stories features at https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories (2016)• Secretary’s Award for Excellence for Digital Enterprise as a member of the Rapid Capture Project Team for the first mass digitization project at a Smithsonian Museum (2015).

Curator-at-Large, LLC, provides curatorial services to art collections, conducting research and writing about works of art; supervising the storage, maintenance, cleaning, conservation, restoration, movement, and presentation of works of art; organizing loan and collection exhibitions of works of art; conducting tours of art collections; teaching formal and informal classes about art and museums; advising on purchases of works of art; and obtaining appraisals of works of art.Recent projects:• Guest curate exhibitions such as A Passion for Flowers: Painting in 19th-Century France (2013) for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, a show of fifty Realist, Impressionists, and Post-Impressionist French paintings and Joan of Arc: Medieval Maiden to Modern Saint (2007) for the Knights of Columbus Museum, New Haven, Conn., exhibition of 250 works in a variety of media.• Research and write scholarly essays on art historical topics for museum and other publications, such as “Life Stilled: Paintings in the Kreeger Museum (at press) and “The Poetry of Fields and Forests: Vincent van Gogh and French Landscape Painting” (2009).

Adjunct Faculty• Developed and teach innovative course “Curatorship: Principles and Practices.”• Evaluate applications to the program as member of application review committee.• Counsel students about finding museum jobs and internships.• Plan to develop elective and core courses such “Museums and the Economy,” “Research Methods and Topics in Museum Studies,” and “Exhibition Strategies.”• Founding member of Library Advisory Council, Johns Hopkins University’s Washington Library Research Center.• Experienced with WebCT, Adobe Acrobat Connect, PowerPoint, Impatica.

American UniversityCollege of Arts and Sciences, Art History Department Washington, D.C. 2008 – presentAdjunct Faculty• Developed and teach “History of Modern Art” to 40 undergraduate students.• Arrange field trips such as visit to Kreeger Art Museum.• Counsel students about finding art history-related jobs and internships especially in art museums and graduate school. • Advise students on graduate programs in art history. • Experienced with Blackboard and Madison Digital Image Database online tool for teaching art history.

Department Head and Curator of European ArtSupervised collection care for nearly 1,000 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts dating from antiquity to the twentieth century.Initiated and directed numerous collection and loan exhibitions (listed below).Managed several exhibition and collection publication projects. Arranged venues for Corcoran exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art; Arts Club of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati; Frick Museum, Pittsburgh; and others. Established partnerships with colleges and universities, including a graduate seminar at the Corcoran focusing on the museum's Greek and Roman antiquities for University of Maryland graduate students.Managed collection acquisitions, including a cubist Picasso still-life painting.Created the department's budget, and hired/selected and managed department research assistants, interns, contract curators, and conservators.Collaborated with development officers to raise $750,000 for department programs. Collaborated with public relations officers to promote department programs in print and electronic media worldwide.

Connecting Worlds Exhibition, at the Kennedy CenterLocal Guest CuratorDesigned Installation for 30 large-scale contemporary European sculptures on the Roof Terrace of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Wrote introduction to the exhibition catalogue.

Modern and Contemporary Art.American Art.Designed and conducted precept sessions, graded papers and exams.

Assisted with special exhibitions Ellsworth Kelly in Paris 1991 Matisse in Morocco 1990 Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986 1987.Conducted research for Matisse exhibition in Paris and Morocco.Conducted research for O'Keeffe exhibition in Abiquiu, New Mexico, and New York.Managed loans for O'Keeffe and Matisse exhibitions.Managed publication production for O'Keeffe and Matisse catalogues.Wrote catalogue entries and co-authored essay for Matisse catalogue.

Introduction to Art History I - Architecture and Sculpture.Introduction to Art History II - Painting and Graphic Art.Designed and conducted precept sessions, graded papers and exams.

Provided clerical and administrative assistance for three curators.Assisted with exhibitions about David Smith, Juan Gris, and Jean Arp.Wrote chronology for publication about Dada in Zurich.