AMANDA A.
DOUBERLEY
amanda.douberley@uconn.edu
http://www.adouberley.com/
EDUCATION
2015 Ph.D. Art History, University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin)
Dissertation: “The Corporate Model: Sculpture, Architecture, and the American
City, 1946 - 1975”
2005 M.A. Art History, UT-Austin
Thesis: “Monuments, Landmarks, and Blowups: Critical Issues in Sculpture
During the Late 1960s”
2003 LAND ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST Field Study Program, UT-Austin
and University of New Mexico
2000 B.A. Art History with Highest Distinction; B.A. English Language and
Literature, Modern Studies concentration, University of Virginia (UVA)
Thesis: “Between Reality and Surreality: The Photographs of Manuel Alvarez
Bravo”
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Jan 2018-Present Assistant Curator/Academic Liaison, William Benton Museum of Art (WBMA),
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Courses Taught ARTH 5330 The Artist as Collector (graduate seminar)
UNIV 3985 Climate Crisis: Take Action (contributor)
UNIV 1800 University Learning Skills: First Year Experience
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Spring 2014-Fall 2017 Lecturer, Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago (SAIC)
Courses Taught ARTHI 1002 Survey of Modern to Contemporary Art and Architecture
ARTHI 1013 Modern/Contemporary Sculpture
ARTHI 3658 Land Art
ARTHI 3963 Work Ethic
ARTHI 4350 Global Surrealisms (mixed grad and undergrad)
ARTHI 5002 Grad Survey: Modern/Contemporary Art
MUSEUM & GALLERY EMPLOYMENT
Aug 2012-Aug 2013 Consulting Curator, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Oct 2004-May 2008 Associate Curator, Bobbie and John Nau Collection of Texas Art, Houston, TX
June 2005-May 2007 Curator/Director, Gallery 3 at the Co-op, Austin, TX
1
Sept 2002-Aug 2004 Curatorial Intern, Department of Prints and Drawings, Blanton Museum of Art,
Austin, TX
Apr-Aug 2002 Acting Associate Director, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Sept 2000-Mar 2002 Gallery Assistant, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Jan 2001-Mar 2002 Artist Assistant, Sharon Lockhart Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Summer 1999 Intern, Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
CURATORIAL
Exhibitions
2021 Co-curator, Encounters with the Collection: WOOD, permanent collection
reinstallation, with Chris Sancomb, Asst. Professor of Industrial Design, WBMA
(upcoming August)
Coordinator, Studio Art + Digital Media & Design Master of Fine Arts Thesis
Exhibition, WBMA
Curator, Käthe Kollwitz: Activism Through Art, WBMA
2020 Co-curator, The Human Epoch: Living in the Anthropocene, with Robert
Thorson, Professor of Geology, WBMA
Coordinator, Studio Art + Digital Media & Design Master of Fine Arts Thesis
Exhibition (Online), WBMA
Co-curator, UConn Through the Viewfinder: Connecticut Daily Campus
Photographs from the Howard Goldbaum Collection, with Archives & Special
Collections, UConn Library, WBMA
2019 Curator, DEMOKRACJA GRAFIKA: The Democracy of Print, WBMA
Curator, “Halt the Hun!”: Atrocity Propaganda in World War I, WBMA
Co-curator, Fluid Dynamics in Art and Nature, with George Matheou, Asst.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, WBMA
Coordinator, The MFA Show 2019: Studio Art + Digital Media & Design Master
of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, WBMA
Co-curator, Counterproof Press: Collaborations, with Laurie Sloan, Associate
Professor of Printmaking, WBMA
Curator, Face-Off: Confronting Portraiture, WBMA
2018 Curator, H. Fred Simons African American Cultural Center: Celebrating 50
Years of Service and Activism, WBMA
Coordinator, What’s the Alternative? The Art and Outrage of the
1960s Underground Press, curated by Dwayne Booth (aka Mr. Fish), WBMA
2
Curator, From Hogarth to Daumier: Satirical Prints in the Benton’s
Collection, 1720-1848, WBMA
Coordinator, Close Third Person: 2018 Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition,
WBMA
Curator, I AM A MAN: Photographs by Ernest C. Withers, WBMA
2007 Curator, Tabletop Sculpture, Art Palace, Austin, TX
Co-curator, Interchange: An Exhibition in Three Parts, Creative Research
Laboratory, Austin, TX
Curator, Object / Type / Transform, Gallery 3 at the Co-op, Austin, TX
2006 Curator, Outside Area: Jarrod Beck, Erin Curtis & Aron Johnston, Gallery 3 at
the Co-op, Austin, TX
Curator, Silver Eagle Distributors Collection, Houston, TX
2005 Curator, No Place Like Home, Gallery 3 at the Co-op, Austin, TX
Curator, Katherine Bash: Tracing the Wind, Glassell School of Art, Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2004 Curator, The Portable Museum: Renaissance Prints After Ancient Roman
Sculpture, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Co-curator, in::formation, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX
Curator, Court Life in the Age of the Sun King, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin,
TX
Co-curator, LAND ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST 2003, Creative Research
Laboratory, Austin, TX
2003 Co-curator, LAND ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST 2003, John Sommers
Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Co-curator, Superstring, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX
Co-curator, Murmur, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX
Press Log
2021 Kenneth Best, “Benton Exhibition Explores Work of Käthe Kollwitz, Who Used
Art as Platform for Activism,” UConn Today, Apr 6.
Jordana Castelli, “The Benton Analyzes ‘The Sacrifice’ by Käthe Kollwitz and
Takes a Look into the Depiction of War in Artwork,” Daily Campus, Mar 29.
Khira Francis, “UConn’s Benton Museum Looks at ‘Green Capitalism’,” The
Chronicle (Willimantic, CT), Mar 6.
3
Gino Gisanti, “Fridays for Future Takes Over Thursdays with the Benton to
Tackle Climate Justice,” Daily Campus, Mar 5.
Jordana Castelli, “Critical LOOKing with The Benton: Taking a Closer Look at
‘La Conquistadora at the Trinity Nuclear Site, Near Socorro, New Mexico’,”
Daily Campus, Mar 1.
John Ruddy, “Anguish, Art and Action: The Work of Käthe Kollwitz at UConn,”
The Day (New London, CT), Feb 24.
Sarah Goodman, “Art Survives Death with the UConn Grief Project,” Daily
Campus, Feb 24.
Jordana Castelli, “‘Waste Pool, Marble Quarry, Barre, VT’: A Look into
Excavation Eestruction with the Benton,” Daily Campus, Feb 10.
Sarah Goodman, “From Grief to Activism: The Art of Käthe Kollwitz,” Daily
Campus, Feb 8.
Kaylie Sheehan, “What the Benton Has Planned for Spring 2021,” Daily
Campus, Feb 5.
Kenneth Best, “Benton ‘Anthropocene’ Exhibit Highlights Human Impact on
Environment,” UConn Today, Feb 5.
Jordana Castelli, “Discussion and Analysis of ‘Silueta Works in Mexico’,” Daily
Campus, Feb 1.
Thomas Connors, “Kollwitz Exhibit Takes a Hard Look at War and Social
Justice at the William Benton Museum,” Connecticut Magazine, Jan 19.
2020 Isabella Warren, “Leaf the Drawing to Magdalena Pawlowski,” Daily Campus,
Dec 4.
Jordana Castelli, “Benton Museum of Art Takes a Critical Look at ‘Devil’s
Punch Bowl’,” Daily Campus, Nov 19.
Jordana Castelli, “The Human Epoch: Living in the Anthropocene with the
Benton,” Daily Campus, Nov 13.
Gino Giansanti, “Creating Art in COVID-19,” Daily Campus, Oct 20.
Joanne Biju, “Kicking Off Fall with the Benton,” Daily Campus, Oct 12.
Kenneth Best, “Adjusting to Pandemic Reality, 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition at
Benton Museum Moves Online,” UConn Today, April 23.
Ian Ward, “‘Cold War’ a Crowd Pleaser at The Benton,” Daily Campus, Feb 21.
Jordan Buxton, “Five Decades Later, the Howard Goldbaum Collection,” Nevada
Today, Feb 19.
Kenneth Best, “UConn Through the Viewfinder: Howard Goldbaum’s Campus
News Photos,” UConn Today, Feb 12.
4
Stephanie Santillo, “Students Love Valentine’s-Themed First Thursday,” Daily
Campus, Feb 7.
Daniel Cohn, “No, REALLY Look At It: Critical Looking at the Benton,” Daily
Campus, Feb 3.
Anthony Zepperi, “Turbulent Times at UConn on Display at Benton,” The
Chronicle (Willimantic, CT), Feb 1-2.
Edison Escobar, “UConn’s History Archived Through Photos,” Daily Campus,
Jan 31.
Brandon Barzola, “Look Through the Benton’s Viewfinder for a Glimpse at
UConn’s History,” Daily Campus, Jan 29.
2019 Ian Ward, “First Thursday Brings Excitement to The Benton,” Daily Campus,
Nov 8.
Daniel Cohn, “‘DEMOKRACJA GRAFIKA: The Democracy of Print’ Opens at
The Benton,” Daily Campus, Oct 25.
Daniel Cohn, “The Benton Creates a Space for Art Analysis with ‘Critical
Looking: A Gallery Dialogue’,” Daily Campus, Oct 14.
Alexandra Meropoulos, “New Benton Exhibit Helps Mechanical Engineering
Professor Blend Art With Teaching,” Engineering News (UConn), Oct.
Rebecca Maher, “First Thursday Immerses Students in Souvenirs d’Afrique,”
Daily Campus, Oct 4.
Hollianne Lao, “MFA Show Highlights Interactive Visual Projects On Mental
Health, Sexual Assault,” Daily Campus, Apr 11.
Hollianne Lao, “Long River Review Takes Over The Benton,” Daily Campus,
Apr 5.
Stephanie Santillo, “Describing ‘Daedalus’: A Close Look At Sculpture, Myth
and Artistry,” Daily Campus, Mar 14.
Hollianne Lao, “Second ‘First Thursdays’ At The Benton,” Daily Campus,
Mar 8.
“The Art Museum and The Archive,” Interview with Graham Stinnett, d’Archive
podcast, Mar 4.
Hollianne Lao, “After Hours Adventure At The Benton,” Daily Campus, Feb 8.
Stephanie Santillo, “Face-Off Photographs Face the Facts,” Daily Campus,
Jan 24.
2018 Alexis Taylor, “Benton Museum ‘Salutes’ AACC With 50th Anniversary
Exhibition,” Daily Campus, Oct 31.
5
Daniel Cohn, “The Benton’s ‘Dangerous Art and Censorship’ Forum Brings
Much Needed Discourse On Art’s Impact In Our World,” Daily Campus, Oct 15.
Kenneth Best, “The Challenge of Political Illustration,” UConn Today, Oct 11.
Michael Dooley, “The Underground Press: Graphics of Outrage, Protest and
Provocation,” Print, Oct 9.
Tracey O’Shaughnessy, “The Birth of Satire On View At UConn Museum,”
Republican-American (Waterbury), Sept 27.
Alan Bisbort, “An Alternative Rear View,” Republican-American (Waterbury),
Sept 22.
Susan Dunne, “Political Cartoons At Yale, UConn Lampoon The Powerful Of
The 18th, 19th, Centuries,” Hartford Courant, Sept 19.
Brandon Barzola, “Mr. Fish Promotes Conversation Through Controversial
Cartoons At The Benton,” Daily Campus, Sept 12.
Susan Dunne, “‘What’s the Alternative?’ At Benton in Storrs,” Hartford
Courant, Sept 8.
Alexis Taylor, “Benton Exhibition Doesn’t Shy Away From Controversy,” Daily
Campus, Aug 27.
Lauren Brown, “MFA Students’ Hard Work Pays Off In Close Third Person
Opening Reception,” Daily Campus, Apr 19.
Alexis Taylor, “Graduate Students: The School of Fine Arts’ Best Kept Secret
Part 2,” Daily Campus, Apr 18.
Alexis Taylor, “Graduate Students: The School of Fine Arts’ Best Kept Secret,”
Daily Campus, Apr 17.
2007 Katherine McQueen, “Best of 2007,” Austin American-Statesman, Dec 26 (for
Interchange).
Rachel Cook, “Interchange Dialogue,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art Online,
Aug.
Salvador Castillo, “‘Interchange’ at Creative Research Lab,” Austin Chronicle,
Aug 17.
Edwin Stirman, “The Problem of Design in Austin,” Glasstire.com: Texas
Visual Art Online, Apr.
2005 “No Place Like Home: Two Views on Gallery 3’s First Show,” …might be good
(Austin, TX), Sept 9.
2004 Jacqueline May, “in::formation,” Austin Chronicle, Aug 27.
Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, “Sometimes concepts overtake art in UT graduate
students’ exhibit,” Austin American-Statesman, Aug 22.
6
Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, “Art Students Bring Home A Blizzard of Creative
Ideas,” Austin American-Statesman, Jan 29.
Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, “Top 10 2003,” Austin American-Statesman, Jan 1 (for
Murmur and Superstring).
2003 Tracy Dingmann, “Class takes artists into great outdoors,” Albuquerque Sunday
Journal, Nov 23.
Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, ““Superstring’ Nimbly Ties Together Art and
Technology,” Austin American-Statesman, Aug 28.
Wayne Alan Brenner, “Superstring: Fully Baked,” Austin Chronicle, Aug 22.
Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, “UT Students’ ‘Murmur’ Exhibit Will Make You
Coo,” Austin American-Statesman, July 24.
MUSEUM PROGRAMS
Ongoing Critical Looking: A Gallery Dialogue, WBMA
2021 Exhibition walkthrough, Käthe Kollwitz: Activism Through Art, WBMA
2020 Panelist, Conversation with the Curators: Living in the Anthropocene, with
Robert Thorson, WBMA
Moderator, COVID & Creativity, with Heejoo Gwen Kim, John O’Donnell,
Samantha Olschan, Alison Paul, and Janet Pritchard, WBMA
2018 Gallery talk, Public Sculpture on Main Street, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of
Art, Hartford, CT
2017 Panelist, Public Offerings: Sculpture as Civic Art, with Julia Bachrach and Tony
Tasset, moderated by Rick Kogan, Art Institute of Chicago
2015 Visiting critic and guest lecturer, Artists-In-Residence program, Utah Museum of
Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City
2012 Moderator, “Pop and Public Art,” with Lisa Freiman, Tom Eccles, and
Benjamin Buchloh, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Illustrated lecture, “The Obelisk, the Astronaut, and the Mouse: Defining Public
Sculpture for Houston,” The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Audio guide segment, “Mark di Suvero’s Bygones,” in Voices of the Menil: A
Cell Phone Audio Walk
2010 Gallery talk, Claes Oldenburg’s Geometric Mouse, Hirshhorn Museum &
Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
2008 Workshop panelist, Artist’s Boot Camp, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
7
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
2018 “Robert Smithson,” in Charles A. Birnbaum and Scott Craver, eds., Shaping the
Postwar Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape
Design Project (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press).
2016 “The Memory Frame: Set in Stone, a Dialogue,” with Paul Druecke, in Harriet F.
Senie and Cher Krause Knight, eds., A Companion to Public Art (Malden, MA:
John Wiley & Sons).
2009 Site insets in Chris Taylor and Bill Gilbert, Land Arts of the American West
(Austin, TX: UT Press). Peer-reviewed.
2005 “From the Studio to the Factory, From the Factory to the Street: Barnett
Newman’s Broken Obelisk and the New Monuments of the 1960s,” in CORE
2005 (Houston, TX: Museum of Fine Arts).
Journal Articles
2020 “Broken Obelisk and Racial Justice in Houston,” Cite Digital, August.
2017 “Curating on Campus: a Dialogue,” with Andrée Bober, Public Art Dialogue
7:1, Higher-Ed: College Campuses and Public Art (May): 90-103. Peer-reviewed
2015 “Claes Oldenburg’s Geometric Mouse,” Nierika: Revista de Estudios de Arte
(Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México) 4:7 (enero-junio): 46-57.
Special issue on Multiples in Sculpture, guest editor with Sarah Beetham.
Peer-reviewed
Book Reviews
2018 Review of Ed Ruscha and the Great American West by Karin Breuer, ed.,
Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 4.1
(Spring).
2011 “From the Factory to the Street,” book review of Large Scale: Fabricating
Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s by Jonathan D. Lippincott, Art Journal 70
(Winter): 114-116.
Exhibition Reviews and Feature Articles
2018 Review of Dwan Gallery: Los Angeles to New York, 1959–1971 by James
Meyer, caa.reviews, 23 Mar.
2009 “Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay at ICA Philadelphia,” Art Papers,
Sept/Oct.
2008 “Beverly Semmes & Ingrid Schaffner: Just what is it that makes today’s homes
so different, so appealing? at testsite,” Art Papers, July/Aug.
“Mads Lynnerup: If You See Anything Interesting Please Let Someone Know
Immediately! at Lora Reynolds,” Art Papers, May/June.
“Fuse Box,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art Online, May.
“Ewan Gibbs: Pictures of Pitchers at Lora Reynolds,” Austin Chronicle, Apr 4.
8
“Fritz Haeg: Attack on the Front Lawn at Arthouse,” …might be good (Austin),
Mar 21.
“Florian Slotawa: One After the Other at Arthouse,” Art Papers, Mar/Apr.
“Ryan Lauderdale & Michael Berryhill: Greetings from Berrydale at Okay
Mountain,” Austin Chronicle, Feb 22.
“Donna Huanca: Secret Museum of Mankind at Women & Their Work,” Austin
Chronicle, Jan 18.
“Jorge Macchi: The Anatomy of Melancholy at the Blanton Museum of Art,”
Austin Chronicle, Jan 11.
2007 “Chris Chappell and David Ohlerking: Double Vision at Davis Gallery,” Austin
Chronicle, Dec 28.
“Collaboration from Conception at Creative Research Laboratory,” Austin
Chronicle, Dec 14.
“Mike’s World: Michael Smith & Joshua White (and other collaborators) at the
Blanton Museum of Art,” Art Papers, Nov/Dec.
“Making the Scene: Looking back at a time when Austin was at the center of the
Texas art world,” Austin Chronicle, Aug 24. Republished in Glasstire.com:
Texas Visual Art Online.
“Cantanker/us at Else Madsen,” Austin Chronicle, June 22.
“Jeff Williams: Thickly Settled at Okay Mountain,” Austin Chronicle, June 8.
“Jennifer Balkan: Her New Work at Wally Workman,” Austin Chronicle,
May 18.
“Smile Forever: Interview with Michael Sieben,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual
Art Online, Apr.
“2007 Texas Biennial,” 3-part roundtable, Austin Chronicle, Mar 30, Apr 6, 13.
“Elaine Bradford: Freaks of Nurture at Women & Their Work,” Austin
Chronicle, Mar 23.
“Site Unseen: America Starts Here at Austin Museum of Art,” Austin Chronicle,
Mar 23.
“The Sirens’ Song at Arthouse,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art Online, Feb.
“Christopher Schade: Islands at dberman,” Austin Chronicle, Jan 26.
“Top 10s of 2006: One more for the road,” Austin Chronicle, Jan 12.
2006 “Curatorial Reportage,” Austin Chronicle, Nov 24. Republished in
Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art Online.
9
“Joey Fauerso: Wide Open Wide at Women & Their Work,” Austin Chronicle,
Oct 27.
“Ken Hale at Slugfest,” Austin Chronicle, Sept 22.
“Tag, You’re It!: Austin Graffiti Art: From Birth to Present at Gallery
Lombardi,” Austin Chronicle, Sept 1.
“Jeffrey Dell and Marjorie Moore at dberman,” Austin Chronicle, Aug 11.
“From Stuff, Art: New American Talent 21 at Arthouse,” Austin Chronicle,
July 21.
“Candace Briceño: Nevermore at Women & Their Work,” Austin Chronicle,
July 7.
“Peat Duggins: The Moment That Changed My Life Forever at Art Palace,”
Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art Online, June.
“True Believers: The Gospel of Lead at Arthouse,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual
Art Online, March.
“In Between at the DAC,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art Online, Feb.
“Ebony Porter at Art Palace,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art Online, Jan.
2005 “‘Self-Portrait’ at the Austin Museum of Art,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art
Online, Dec.
“A Walk Around Donald Judd’s Block,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art Online,
Nov.
“Nathan Green at Art Palace,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art Online,
Sept.
“Cy Twombly at the Menil Collection,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art
Online, May.
“Paul Druecke,” Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art Online, Jan.
2004 “Sam Ran Over Sand or Sand Ran Over Sam: Rice University Art Gallery and
Jessica Stockholder, Kissing the Wall: Works, 1988-2003: Blaffer Art Gallery,”
Glasstire.com: Texas Visual Art Online, Sept.
Exhibition Catalogues
2009 Erin Curtis: Perspective Threshold, (Austin, TX: Women & Their Work
Gallery).
2008 “Chris Taylor,” in Atelier 2008 (Austin, TX: Blanton Museum of Art).
Yoon Cho (Austin, TX: Women & Their Work Gallery).
10
“Meggie Chou,” “Ali Fitzgerald,” “Alyson Fox,” “Jen Hirt & Scott Webel,”
“Baseera Khan,” “Jill Pangallo,” “Matthew Rodriguez,” “Sarah Sudhoff,”
“Raymond Uhlir,” and “Stephanie Wagner,” in New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch
(Austin, TX: Austin Museum of Art).
2007 Tabletop Sculpture (Austin, TX: Art Palace Gallery).
“The Eternal Moment,” “Anna Krachey,” “Laura Turner,” and “Joshua Welker,”
in Interchange (Austin, TX: Creative Research Laboratory).
Object / Type / Transform (Austin, TX: Gallery 3 at the Co-op).
2006 Outside Area (Austin, TX: Gallery 3 at the Co-op).
“Our House: Interview with Scot Proctor and Christa Mares,” in Making It
Together (Austin, TX: Creative Research Laboratory).
“Remember Yourself: Interview with Kurt Mueller,” in Making It Alone (Austin,
TX: Creative Research Laboratory).
Brochure essay for Bobbie and John Nau Collection of Texas Art, Houston TX.
2005 “Wayman Adams,” “Ed Bearden,” “O.E. Berninghaus,” “Elmer Boone,” “H.D.
Bugbee,” “Fred Darge,” “Dawson Dawson-Watson,” “Edward Eisenlohr,”
“Michael Frary,” “Louis Oscar Griffith,” “William Lester,” “Mimi Litschauer,”
“Robert Julian Onderdonk,” “Robert Pummill,” “Paul Schumann,” and “Bob
Stuth-Wade,” in United States Embassy Riyadh (Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Department of State, Art in Embassies Program).
“The Secret of the Ruby Slippers,” in No Place Like Home (Austin, TX: Gallery
3 at the Co-op).
“Sun-Pictures,” in Katherine Bash: Tracing the Wind (Houston, TX: Glassell
School of Art).
2004 “Notes on the Grid,” in Construction Site (Austin, TX: Cinematexas 9
International Short Film Festival).
“Interview with Thuy-Van Vu” and “Barna Kantor: Expanded Cinema,” in
in::formation (Austin, TX: Creative Research Laboratory).
Co-author with Charlotte Cousins, MFA Thesis Exhibition 2004 (Austin, TX:
Creative Research Laboratory).
2003 “Making Place,” LAND ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST 2003 (Albuquerque,
NM: John Sommers Gallery and Austin, TX: Creative Research Laboratory).
CONFERENCE PAPERS & PANELS
2021 “More Than a Tour: Teaching and Learning in a University Art Museum,”
Shared Pedagogy in Practice: Kindred Teaching Tools in the University Gallery,
Museum, Lecture Hall, and Online Classroom, College Art Association Annual
Conference
11
2016 “Sculpture for a New Town: Mark di Suvero in University Park, Illinois,” Art for
All Seasons – Art and Sculpture in Parks and Gardens, Midwest Art History
Society Conference, Chicago, IL
2015 “Materializing Modernity: Isamu Noguchi’s Aluminum Sculptures, 1958-61,”
Industrious Materials: Bridging Art and Industry, SECAC, Pittsburgh, PA
“Bulldozer Aesthetics: Alexander Calder and Robert Morris in Grand Rapids,
Michigan,” Crash and Burn: Destruction in American Art, Courtauld Institute of
Art, London, England
“Revisiting Alexander Calder’s Gwenfritz,” Critical Topography Conference,
Documentary Media Research Centre at Ryerson University, Toronto and the
Canadian Centre for the Study of Landscape, Memory and Critical Topography
at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
2012 “Phyllis Yampolsky’s ‘Events in the Open Air’,” Street Art and Urban Action,
SECAC, Durham, NC
“Lippincott Inc. and the Creation of a Market for Monumental Sculpture,”
American Art: The Academy, Museums and the Market, Association of
Historians of American Art Conference, Boston, MA
2011 “Building the Corporate Image: Abstract Sculpture in the Architecture of SOM,”
Incorporating Culture: Corporate Patronage of Art and Architecture in the United
States, SECAC, Savannah, GA
2010 “Sculpture Inside the Glass Box: SOM’s Architectural Objects of the 1950s,”
Smithsonian Fellows’ Lectures in American Art, Washington, D.C.
“The Inland Steel Building Inside Out,” Open Session: Recent Research in
Chicago Architecture, College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
2009 “Sculpture in Environment and Urban Renewal in New York City circa 1967,”
Abstraction in the Public Sphere: New Approaches, Snite Museum of Art,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2004 “Conscious Design and the New Plastics: László Moholy-Nagy and
American Industrial Design in Dialogue, 1937-1946,” Eleanor Greenhill
Graduate Symposium, Department of Art + Art History, UT-Austin
INVITED LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
2020 “Ekphrastic Contemplation for Dialogue & Learning,” co-hosted by the Center
for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and Initiative on Campus Dialogues,
University of Connecticut
2017 “Sculpture for a New Town: Mark di Suvero in University Park, Illinois,” Nathan
Manilow Sculpture Park, Governors State University, University Park, IL
2016 Scholars’ workshop on public art in Chicago, Terra Foundation for American
Art, Chicago, IL
12
2015 “Art, Education, and Recreation in 1960s New York: Phyllis Yampolsky’s
Events in the Open Air,” Lunchtime Lecture Series, Department of Art History,
Theory, and Criticism, SAIC
2013 “Building the Corporate Image: Abstract Sculpture in the Architecture of SOM,”
Department of Art & Art History Lecture Series, Colgate University, Hamilton,
NY
2012 “Renewing the City’s Image: Public Sculpture and Public Relations,” Research
Roundtable, Department of Art + Art History, UT-Austin
CONFERENCE PANELS & SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
2014 Co-chair with Sarah Beetham, “The Color of Sculpture,” with speakers Miguel
de Baca, Roberto Ferrari, Katrina Greene, and Monica Steinberg. SECAC,
Sarasota, FL
2013 Co-chair with Sarah Beetham, “Sculpture’s Multiples,” with speakers Karen
Lemmey, Christina Ferando, Andrew Eschelbacher, and Douglas Cushing.
SECAC, Greensboro, NC
HONORS & FELLOWSHIPS
Doctoral/Dissertation
2012 Professional Development Award, Graduate School, UT-Austin
2011-12 Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellowship, The Menil Collection
2009-12 Graduate Dean Prestigious Fellowship Supplement based on an External Award,
UT-Austin
2011 Gulnar Bosch Student Travel Assistance Grant, Southeastern College Art
Conference (SECAC)
2010-11 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art
2009-10 Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait
Gallery
2008-09 Hogg Endowed Continuing Fellowship, UT-Austin (university-wide
competition)
2006 College of Fine Arts Travel Grant, UT-Austin
Graduate
2003-06 M.K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in the Fine Arts, UT-Austin
2004-05 Critic-in-Residence, Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, TX
2004 Nomination for Best Group Gallery Exhibition (Murmur and Superstring),
Austin Critic’s Table Awards
13
Undergraduate
2000 Phi Beta Kappa
McIntire Department of Art Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis in Art
History, UVA
1998 Intermediate Honors, UVA
PUBLIC SERVICE
Spring 2020-Present Education Committee, College Art Association
Fall 2018-Present Public Arts Committee, University of Connecticut
Summer 2020 School of Fine Arts COVID-19 Task Force, University of Connecticut
Spring 2018 President’s Committee on Civil Discourse & Dialogue, University of Connecticut
2008-09 Landmarks Program Advisory Committee, UT-Austin
2007-08 Blanton Museum of Art Director Search Committee, Austin, TX
1999-2000 Chairperson, Bayly Art Museum Student Docents, Charlottesville, VA
1997-2000 Gallery Teacher, Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2006-08 Austin Critic’s Table
MANUSCRIPT REVIEW
American Art
Northwestern University Press
Public Art Dialogue
14
