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Curating
Currently, I serve as the Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts where I work from The Huntington's outstanding collection strengths in American folk art, Arts and Crafts, Greene and Greene, and Colonial-era material to grow previously underrepresented areas of the collection. Notable projects include a refresh of the Fielding Loggia highlighting early American stoneware traditions that feature the contributions of African American enslaved and free potters, co-organizing a community festival entitled, "Quilting a Community: Celebrating Gee's Bend" in connection with the exhibition Gee's Bend: Shared Legacy, and an academic conference, Shaping Black Modernisms: Art, Culture and Community in California, which explored the historic and present contributions of Black artists in California.
Most recently, my work and research has explored the history and impact of Black artists in Pasadena and Altadena, and a current project on the Black ceramist, Doyle Lane, a key figure within Southern California's clay movement. The multi-pronged project features an exhibition of over 100 works, an exhibition catalog, a 21-minute documentary film, and a digital interactive project mapping Lane's impact across Los Angeles County, especially his commissions with architects, artists and designers in El Sereno, Pasadena, and Altadena.
Prior to The Huntington, I curated exhibitions for the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI), Houston Museum of African American Culture (Houston, TX), Amon Carter of American Art (Fort Worth, Texas), Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), Fort Public Art (Fort Worth, TX), Towne Art Gallery at Wheelock College (Boston, MA).
Outside of WoCA Projects in Fort Worth, Texas.
WoCA Projects at its grand opening exhibitions.
The Skin Quilt Project: Uplifting Our Culture, Celebrating Tradition organized in partnership with the Plano African American Museum and hosted by the ArtCentre of Plano in Plano, Texas.
Outside of WoCA Projects in Fort Worth, Texas.
WoCA Projects
In 2013, I founded an arts non-profit in Fort Worth, Texas, called WoCA Projects, which began as a brick-and-mortar space and expanded into an art consultancy called, Art Inspires Lives. My curating is grounded in womanist thinking and is centered in expanding the stories that we tell about artists and their art. I am also interested in the visitor's experience and curating different modes for community engagement within each project.