EDUCATION
2013 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
Art History, Theory and Criticism major with a concentration in Curatorial Studies
Magna Cum Laude
Fall 2012 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Art History
Spring 2012 Studio Art Centers International (SACI), Florence, Italy
Art History and Museology
WORK EXPERIENCE
2018 - 2017 Temporary Entrepreneurship Coordinator, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2017 Contributing Writer, BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
2016-2015 Gallery Director, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2015-2013 Curatorial Assistant, Department of the Arts of Africa, The Americas, Asia and the Pacific Islands (AAAPI),
Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), Baltimore, MD
2014 Gallery Assistant, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
INTERNSHIPS / WORK-STUDY
2013-2012 Curatorial Intern, AAAPI Department, BMA, Baltimore, MD
2013-2010 Student Ambassador, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2011-2010 Gallery Intern, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2010 Education Department Intern, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Curatorial Department Intern, New Britain Museum of Art (NBMAA), New Britain, CT
Curatorial Department Intern, Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2009 Student Employee, Media Resource Collection, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Photography Apprentice, Neighborhood Studios Program, Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2008 Education Department Intern, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2017 Curator, Emily Schubert: Collages, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, MD
2016 Curator, To Be Black in White America, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Curator, Consumption: Food as Paradox, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2015 Assistant Curator, The Image of the Black: Reimagined and Redefined, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Curatorial Assistant, Diverging Streams: Eastern Nigerian Art, BMA, Baltimore, MD
Curatorial Assistant, Reinstallation of the African and Asian Art Galleries, BMA, Baltimore, MD
2014 Gallery Assistant, Emergence 2014: International Artists to Watch, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2011 Exhibition Design and Production Team and Curatorial Team, Baltimore: Open City, MICA’s 2011 Exhibition Development Seminar
(EDS), Baltimore, MD
Assistant Curator, Emergence: Contemporary Artists to Watch, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Writing Team, curated collaboratively, Relics and Reliquaries: Reconsidered, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Curated collaboratively, Enshrined Materials, Current Space, Baltimore, MD
2009 Curated collaboratively, Skin, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2017 Curatorial Activism and the Politics of Shock (International Summit), School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY
2014 16th Triennial Symposium of African Art, Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), Brooklyn Museum of Art (host), Brooklyn,
NY
PUBLICATIONS
2017 "You’ll Know If You Belong: Wickerham & Lomax’s DUOX4Odell’s: An Interview by Aden Weisel with Photos by Joseph
Hyde," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
"Museum of Everything and Nothing: The Contemporary's New Installation, The Ground by Michael Jones McKean, Creates a Dramatic
Buzz but Misses the Point," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
2015 Editor, Emergence 2014: International Artists to Watch, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2014 “BMA Voices: Puppets,” BMA, Baltimore, MD
“BMA Voices: Gold Dust Weights with Swastikas,” BMA, Baltimore, MD
“BMA Voices: What is within this ‘Power Figure (Nkishi)’?,” BMA, Baltimore, MD
Editor, sections on African, Native and Ancient American, Asian and Pacific Islands art, The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum, BMA, Baltimore, MD
“BMA Voices: A Royal Man’s Mask (Mukenga) from the Kuba Kingdom,” BMA, Baltimore, MD
2013 “Surreal Selves at the BMA reviewed by Aden Weisel,” BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
2010 Editor, What is your Tar Baby?, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD {November 2010}
Catalogue essay, William McGregor Paxton’s Reclining Nude, American Reflections: The Collection of Dr. Timothy McLaughlin,
NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Outside the Lines: Defining the Modern Museum," NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Face Value: What Does an Entrance Say About a Museum?,” NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Museum Ethics: Examining Religion through Art,” NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Jon Rappleye’s Dreamscapes,” NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Museum Ethics: The Depiction and Exhibition of ‘Others,’” NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Museum Ethics: ‘Women’s Art,’” NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2017 Guest speaker, visit to The Ground with George Ciscle, David Brook’s Sculptural Forms class, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2016 Moderator, To Be Black in White America, Artists’ Talk, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Moderator, Consumption: Food as Paradox, Tea with Myrtis: Panel Discussion, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Moderator, Consumption: Food as Paradox, Artists’ Talk, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2013 "The Display of African Art in Euro-American Museums: A Case Study Examining Ethnographic and Aesthetic Trends at the
Brooklyn Museum, Third Annual Art History Senior Thesis Symposium, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2011 Artists’ Panel Discussion, Relics and Reliquaries: Reconsidered, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
RECENT PRESS
2016 “Best Group Show: ‘Consumption: Food as Paradox’ at Galerie Myrtis,” City Paper, Baltimore, MD, September 13, 2016
Angela Carroll, “Seeing Through the Lens of Black America,” BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD, June 29, 2016
Cara Ober, “Field Trip: Baltimore Gallery Visits,” BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD, June 28, 2016
Stacy M. Brown, “New exhibit focuses on being Black in White America,” The Baltimore Times, Baltimore, MD, June 24, 2016
Tim Smith, “Confronting race, violence through art at Galerie Myrtis," The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD, June 23, 2016
Rebekah Kirkman, “A mélange of artists dive deep into food to talk about race, class, gender, and culture,” City Paper, Baltimore, MD,
March 2, 2016
Kara Mercer, “How to Work with Artists,” BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD, February 4, 2016
2015 Tim Smith, “A Provocative ‘Image of the Black’ at Galerie Myrtis,” The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD, November 19, 2015
AWARDS
2016 “Best Group Show: ‘Consumption: Food as Paradox’ at Galerie Myrtis,” City Paper, Baltimore, MD
2013-2009 Academic Excellence Scholarship, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Trustee Scholarship, MICA, Baltimore, MD
MICA Grant, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2012-2009 Dean's List, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2011 General Fine Arts Departmental Recognition Award, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2010 Foundation Departmental Recognition Award, MICA, Baltimore, MD
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2017 Subcommittee Member, Neighborhood Lights, Greater Remington Improvement Association (GRIA), Baltimore, MD
Mural Steward, Remington's Mural Mile by Gaia, GRIA, Baltimore, MD
2013 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
Art History, Theory and Criticism major with a concentration in Curatorial Studies
Magna Cum Laude
Fall 2012 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Art History
Spring 2012 Studio Art Centers International (SACI), Florence, Italy
Art History and Museology
WORK EXPERIENCE
2018 - 2017 Temporary Entrepreneurship Coordinator, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2017 Contributing Writer, BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
2016-2015 Gallery Director, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2015-2013 Curatorial Assistant, Department of the Arts of Africa, The Americas, Asia and the Pacific Islands (AAAPI),
Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), Baltimore, MD
2014 Gallery Assistant, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
INTERNSHIPS / WORK-STUDY
2013-2012 Curatorial Intern, AAAPI Department, BMA, Baltimore, MD
2013-2010 Student Ambassador, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2011-2010 Gallery Intern, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2010 Education Department Intern, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Curatorial Department Intern, New Britain Museum of Art (NBMAA), New Britain, CT
Curatorial Department Intern, Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2009 Student Employee, Media Resource Collection, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Photography Apprentice, Neighborhood Studios Program, Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2008 Education Department Intern, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2017 Curator, Emily Schubert: Collages, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, MD
2016 Curator, To Be Black in White America, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Curator, Consumption: Food as Paradox, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2015 Assistant Curator, The Image of the Black: Reimagined and Redefined, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Curatorial Assistant, Diverging Streams: Eastern Nigerian Art, BMA, Baltimore, MD
Curatorial Assistant, Reinstallation of the African and Asian Art Galleries, BMA, Baltimore, MD
2014 Gallery Assistant, Emergence 2014: International Artists to Watch, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2011 Exhibition Design and Production Team and Curatorial Team, Baltimore: Open City, MICA’s 2011 Exhibition Development Seminar
(EDS), Baltimore, MD
Assistant Curator, Emergence: Contemporary Artists to Watch, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Writing Team, curated collaboratively, Relics and Reliquaries: Reconsidered, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Curated collaboratively, Enshrined Materials, Current Space, Baltimore, MD
2009 Curated collaboratively, Skin, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2017 Curatorial Activism and the Politics of Shock (International Summit), School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY
2014 16th Triennial Symposium of African Art, Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), Brooklyn Museum of Art (host), Brooklyn,
NY
PUBLICATIONS
2017 "You’ll Know If You Belong: Wickerham & Lomax’s DUOX4Odell’s: An Interview by Aden Weisel with Photos by Joseph
Hyde," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
"Museum of Everything and Nothing: The Contemporary's New Installation, The Ground by Michael Jones McKean, Creates a Dramatic
Buzz but Misses the Point," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
2015 Editor, Emergence 2014: International Artists to Watch, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2014 “BMA Voices: Puppets,” BMA, Baltimore, MD
“BMA Voices: Gold Dust Weights with Swastikas,” BMA, Baltimore, MD
“BMA Voices: What is within this ‘Power Figure (Nkishi)’?,” BMA, Baltimore, MD
Editor, sections on African, Native and Ancient American, Asian and Pacific Islands art, The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum, BMA, Baltimore, MD
“BMA Voices: A Royal Man’s Mask (Mukenga) from the Kuba Kingdom,” BMA, Baltimore, MD
2013 “Surreal Selves at the BMA reviewed by Aden Weisel,” BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
2010 Editor, What is your Tar Baby?, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD {November 2010}
Catalogue essay, William McGregor Paxton’s Reclining Nude, American Reflections: The Collection of Dr. Timothy McLaughlin,
NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Outside the Lines: Defining the Modern Museum," NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Face Value: What Does an Entrance Say About a Museum?,” NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Museum Ethics: Examining Religion through Art,” NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Jon Rappleye’s Dreamscapes,” NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Museum Ethics: The Depiction and Exhibition of ‘Others,’” NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
“Museum Ethics: ‘Women’s Art,’” NBMAA.wordpress.com, NBMAA, New Britain, CT
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2017 Guest speaker, visit to The Ground with George Ciscle, David Brook’s Sculptural Forms class, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2016 Moderator, To Be Black in White America, Artists’ Talk, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Moderator, Consumption: Food as Paradox, Tea with Myrtis: Panel Discussion, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Moderator, Consumption: Food as Paradox, Artists’ Talk, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2013 "The Display of African Art in Euro-American Museums: A Case Study Examining Ethnographic and Aesthetic Trends at the
Brooklyn Museum, Third Annual Art History Senior Thesis Symposium, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2011 Artists’ Panel Discussion, Relics and Reliquaries: Reconsidered, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
RECENT PRESS
2016 “Best Group Show: ‘Consumption: Food as Paradox’ at Galerie Myrtis,” City Paper, Baltimore, MD, September 13, 2016
Angela Carroll, “Seeing Through the Lens of Black America,” BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD, June 29, 2016
Cara Ober, “Field Trip: Baltimore Gallery Visits,” BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD, June 28, 2016
Stacy M. Brown, “New exhibit focuses on being Black in White America,” The Baltimore Times, Baltimore, MD, June 24, 2016
Tim Smith, “Confronting race, violence through art at Galerie Myrtis," The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD, June 23, 2016
Rebekah Kirkman, “A mélange of artists dive deep into food to talk about race, class, gender, and culture,” City Paper, Baltimore, MD,
March 2, 2016
Kara Mercer, “How to Work with Artists,” BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD, February 4, 2016
2015 Tim Smith, “A Provocative ‘Image of the Black’ at Galerie Myrtis,” The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD, November 19, 2015
AWARDS
2016 “Best Group Show: ‘Consumption: Food as Paradox’ at Galerie Myrtis,” City Paper, Baltimore, MD
2013-2009 Academic Excellence Scholarship, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Trustee Scholarship, MICA, Baltimore, MD
MICA Grant, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2012-2009 Dean's List, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2011 General Fine Arts Departmental Recognition Award, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2010 Foundation Departmental Recognition Award, MICA, Baltimore, MD
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2017 Subcommittee Member, Neighborhood Lights, Greater Remington Improvement Association (GRIA), Baltimore, MD
Mural Steward, Remington's Mural Mile by Gaia, GRIA, Baltimore, MD
