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Employment
  • Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair at Powerhouse Arts, March 2025
  • Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair, April 2021–present
  • Platemark Podcast, May 2021–present
  • Shout Consulting, September 2017–present
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, March 2000–August 2017
  • National Gallery of Art, March 1991–March 1998
  • Williams College Museum of Art, September 1988–May 1990
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, August 1986–August 1988​
Education
  • Williams College, MA, Art History
  • College of Wooster, BA, Art History
Special Projects
  • Platemark podcast, 2021–present
  • Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair, 2021–present
  • The Curator's Choice podcast, 2021–present
  • Blog: Musings on Art, Mostly Printmaking, 2020–present
  • Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2012, 2015, 2017
Exhibitions
  • Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17, (unrealized), 2017
  • Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas (Evergreen Museum and Library, Johns Hopkins University), March 20–October 9, 2016​
  • Front Room: Broomberg & Chanarin, April 13–September 11, 2016
  • On Paper: Spin, Crinkle, Pluck, April 19–September 20, 2015
  • On Paper: Alternate Realities, September 21, 2014–April 12, 2015
  • On Paper: Figure Drawings From The Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection, April 20–September 14, 2014
  • Front Room: An-My Lê, October 9, 2013–February 23, 2014
  • On Paper: The Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection, November 17, 2012–February 10, 2013
  • Baker Artist Awards 2012, September 5–October 7, 2012
  • Baker Artist Awards 2011, September 7–October 2, 2011
  • On the Mark: Contemporary Works on Paper, July 3–September 12, 2010
  • Taking in the View: English Watercolors and Prints, August 27–December 7, 2008
  • Front Room: Jim Dine, June 11–October 5, 2008
  • Reflections of Sea and Light: Paintings and Watercolors by J.M.W. Turner from Tate (with Jay Fisher, Chief Curator), February 17–May 26, 2002
Acquisitions (purchases and selected gifts)
  • Ellen Countey Abbey, Mnemosyne, 1947 (BMA 2017.6–7)
  • John White Abbott, A Path Through the Woods, c. 1785-1795 (BMA 2008.9)
  • Tauba Auerbach, Plate Distortion II, 2011 (BMA 2012.198)
  • George Ball, Passage, c. 1960 (BMA 2013.38)
  • George Ball, Paysage, c. 1960 (BMA 2013.39)
  • Ballengee
  • Abel Barroso, Cigars with Ideology, 2001 (BMA 2009.132)
  • Fred Becker, Encounter, 1956 (BMA 2017.4)
  • Louisiana Bendolph, As I Leave Shall I Return, 2013 (BMA 2015.97)
  • Robert Blackburn, three prints (2014.38, 2014.39, 2014.90)
  • Sascha Braunig, Stays, 2016 (BMA 2017.69)
  • Marco Breuer, Shot (C-917), 2009 (BMA 2009.125)
  • Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Henry Rushbury (No. 2), 1930 (BMA 2011.116)
  • Broomberg & Chanarin, The Day of One Hundred Dead, June 8, 2008, 2008 (BMA 2016.147)
  • Trisha Brown, Untitled Set One, 2006 (BMA 2007.336–338)
  • John Buckland-Wright, Young Woman before Mirror, 1936 (BMA 2012.232–233)
  • Ambreen Butt, Daughter of the East, 2008 (BMA 2017.68.1–5)
  • Letterio Calapai, Earthquake, 1958 (BMA 2014.13a–b)
  • Enrique Chagoya, Untitled (The Near Distant Jungle), 2014 (BMA 2015.159)
  • Minna Citron, Trepth, 1947 (BMA 2014.12)
  • Amy Cutler, Widow’s Peak, 2011 (BMA 2014.30)
  • Dorothy Dehner, The Barn in Bolton, 1952 (BMA 2011.47)
  • Victor Delhez, Scherzo in Gold, 1948 (BMA 2011.156)
  • Jim Dine, A Side View in Florida, 1986 (2007.223)
  • Jim Dine, Raven on Lebanese Border, 2000 (BMA 2007.224)
  • Louis Draper, Man with Hat and Kool Advertisement, New York, c. 1956 (BMA 2016.72)
  • Kerr Eby, No Man’s Land, St, Mihiel Drive, 1919 (BMA 2012.550)
  • Nicole Eisenman, Sloppy Barroom Kiss, 2011 (BMA 2013.100)
  • Chitra Ganesh, Away from the Watcher, 2014 (BMA 2014.29)
  • Thomas Girtin, Views of Paris, 1802 (BMA 2012.230.1–17)
  • Ann Hamilton, warp & weft I, 2007-2008 (BMA 2009.128)
  • Ann Hamilton, RIGHTS, 2017 (BMA 2017.66)
  • Trenton Doyle Hancock, Wow That’s Mean, 2008 (BMA 2012.199.1–4)
  • Trenton Doyle Hancock, YU, MICA, ME, 2012 (BMA 2012.256)
  • Stanley William Hayter, Cascade, 1959 (BMA 2008.112)
  • Stanley William Hayter, Cascade (plate), 1959 (BMA 2014.40)
  • Stanley William Hayter, Paysages urbains, 1930 (BMA 2011.158-2011.163)
  • Stanley William Hayter, Hydroides, 1963 (BMA 2012.240)
  • Stanley William Hayter, Cinq personnages, 1946 (BMA 2014.14.1–4)
  • Stanley William Hayter, Augy’s Foot, 1940 (BMA 2017.5)
  • Josef Hecht, Mont Saint-Michel, 1938 (BMA 2013.40)
  • Robert Hills, Nook End, Ambleside, c. 1807 (BMA 2006.93)
  • Ian Hugo, various prints and plates, 1940s (BMA 2013.53 etc)
  • Horst Janssen, Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1988 (BMA 2011.70)
  • Stanley William Hayter, Submerged Form, 1941 (BMA 2012.241)
  • Horst Janssen, Edgar Allan Poe, 1988 (BMA 2011.70)
  • Jasper Johns, Fragment--According to What, Coat Hangar and Spoon, 1971 (BMA 2013.326)
  • Idris Khan, Every…Bernd and Hilla Becher Gable Sided Houses, 2008 (BMA 2014.28)
  • Franz Kline, Poem, 1950 (BMA 2014.15)
  • Misch Kohn, Laocoön, 1968-69 (BMA 2013.41)
  • Armin Landeck, Subway Station, 14th Street, 1951 (BMA 2015.1)
  • Mauricio Lasansky, Doma, 1944 (BMA 2011.157)
  • An-My Lê, Target Practice, USS Peleliu, 2005 (BMA 2014.5)
  • Martin Lewis, Which Way?, 1932 (BMA 2011.155)
  • Tom Lewis, The Trial and Prison, 1969 (BMA 2014.10)
  • Evan Lindquist, S.W. Hayter Engraves War, 2015 (BMA 2015.173)
  • Liu Zheng, Two Miners, Datong, Shanxi Province, 1996 (BMA 2009.126)
  • Juan Logan, Ghost, 2009 (BMA 2010.11.1–6)
  • Robert Longo, Men in the Cities (Joanna and Larry), 1983 (BMA 2013.102.1–2)
  • Los Carpinteros, Greenhouse, 2011 (BMA 2011.91)
  • Whitfield Lovell, Deuce, 2011 (BMA 2011.154)
  • Emil Lukas, Center Hum East, 2011 (BMA 2012.200)
  • Ben Marcin, Baltimore, MD, 2011 (BMA 2014.4)
  • Christian Marclay, Automatic Drawing, 2008 (BMA 2009.127)
  • Kerry James Marshall, Handsome Young Man, 2010 (BMA 2012.201)
  • Jacob More, A View of the Cascade of Neptune’s Grotto at Tivoli, 1778 (BMA 2012.234)
  • Vik Muniz, Jorge, 2003 (BMA 2009.129)
  • Wangechi Mutu, Second Born, 2013 (BMA 2014.8)
  • Christine Neill, Balance of Consequence, 2007 (BMA 2013.103)
  • Barbara Neustadt, Knight of Death, 1953 (BMA 2009.19)
  • Julie Niskanen, Sanctuary (Stage Two), 2008 (BMA 2001.40)
  • BJO Nordfeldt, The Skyrocket, 1906 (BMA 2012.547)
  • Gabor Peterdi, Black Bull portfolio, 1939 (BMA 2010.309)
  • Helen Phillips, Poem, 1953 (BMA 2008.114)
  • William Pope.L, Intimacy Project, 2011 (BMA 2012. 155)
  • Andrew Raftery, Autobiography of a Garden, 2009-2016 (BMA 2017.67.1–12)
  • Krishna Reddy, Demonstrators, 1968 (BMA 2013.42)
  • Krishna Reddy, Water Form II, 1966 (BMA 2013.43)
  • Alison Saar, Lost Boys, 2008 (BMA 2009.5)
  • Paul Sandby, Chirk Castle &c. from Wynnstay Park, 1776 (BMA 2008.66)
  • Stan Shellabarger, Untitled, 2011 (BMA 2012.190)
  • Alyson Shotz, Three Views of an Object, 2010 (BMA 2011.92–94)
  • James Siena, No Man’s Land, 2004 (BMA 2012.197)
  • John Sloan, Portrait of Charles de Kock, 1904 (BMA 2007.334)
  • John Sloan, Girl and Beggar, 1910 (BMA 2007.333)
  • David Smith, Women in War, 1941 (BMA 2016.68)
  • James Stroud, Burin Studies, 1980 (BMA 2014.140)
  • Mickalene Thomas, Michelle O, 2008 (BMA 2010.10)
  • Luc Tuymans, Surrender, 2014 (BMA 2015.46.1–3)
  • Various Artists, 21 Etchings and Poems, 1960 (BMA 2015.75.1–20)
  • Diane Victor, Smoke Screen 7 and 9, 2010 (BMA 2011.34 and. 35)
  • Roger Vieillard, The Fable of Phaeton, 1939 (BMA 2012.231)
  • Roger Vieillard, Descartes’ Meditations, 1946 (BMA 2012.173.1–30)
  • William Villalongo, Through the Fire to the Limit, 2006 (BMA. 2014.34)
  • Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Listening Devices), 2014 (BMA 2015.161)
  • Pennerton West, On Such a Night, 1946 (BMA 2013.44)
  • Rachel Perry Welty, S.O.O….GOOD!, 2008 (BMA 2009.178)
  • Rachel Whiteread, Squashed, 2010 (BMA 2013.3)
  • John Wilson, Martin Luther King, Jr., 2002 (BMA 2015.96)
Authored Publications
  • Art That Tells Stories: Artists from Catalyst Contemporary, 2021.
  • “Atelier 17 and Its Founder, Stanley William Hayter,” In Atelier 17 e a gravura moderna nas Américas, São Paolo: Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paolo, 2019, pp. 72–97.
  • Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17, unpublished exhibition catalogue, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2017.
  • Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas (with Trudi Ludwig Johnson), Evergreen Museum and Library, Johns Hopkins University, 2016.
  • Permanent collection blog posts celebrating the BMA’s 100th Anniversary: Albrecht Dürer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil, 1513; John White Abbot’s A Path Through the Woods, c. 1785–95; Stan Shellabarger’s Untitled book, 2011.
  • Exhibition brochures for Front Room: Broomberg & Chanarin, 2016, Front Room: An-My-Lê, 2013, and Front Room: Jim Dine, 2008, The Baltimore Museum of Art.
  • “Hayter: Content and Technique,” Art in Print, 2 (September – October 2012), 10-16.
  • “Aline Feldman: The Dynamics of City and Countryside - The Synthesis of Reality and Imagination,” exhibition brochure, The Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD, October 13–November 21, 2011.
  • “West, Copley, and the Camera Obscura,” co-authored with Jenny Carson, American Art, 22 (Summer 2008), 24-41.
  • Promises Revisited: Mervin Jules, Karl Metzler, and Frank Morgereth, exhibition brochure, University of Maryland University College, 2000.
  • A Stately Heritage: Selections from the University of Maryland University Collection Maryland Artists Collection, exhibition catalogue entries, University of Maryland University College, 2000.
  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, exhibition catalogue entries, National Gallery of Art, 1996.
  • Drawings from the O’Neal Collection, exhibition catalogue entries, National Gallery of Art, 1993.
Juries and Portfolio Reviews
  • Maryland Institute College of Art, senior printmaking student critiquer, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2022.
  • Washington Printmakers Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Peggy Doole National Small Works Exhibition, juror, August 1–25, 2024.
  • Print Houston, NEXT 2024, juror, June 14–July 6, 2024.
  • Society of American Graphic Artists, 87th Annual Exhibition, prize selection, 2022.
  • Maryland Federation of Art, From Mountain to Marina, juror, August 6–27, 2022.
  • Maryland Federation of Art, 40th Annual Art on Paper, juror, 2017.
  • Fotofest Houston, portfolio reviewer, 2016.
  • Maryland Federation of Art, MD Art @ College Park, juror, 2014.
  • ​Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, 25th National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition, juror, 2014.
  • Maryland Institute College of Art, Vestige, Annual Printmaking Juried Exhibition, juror, 2012.
  • Maryland Federation of Art, American Landscapes, juror, 2010.
  • Washington Printmakers Gallery, National Small Works Exhibition, juror, 2008.
Memberships and Awards
  • Robert H. Smith Fellowship, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: research & travel fellowship investigating drawings made with optical aids, such as the camera obscura, the camera lucida, and graphic telescope; traveled to San Marino, CA, and London
  • Board Member, Print Council of America: edited and performed design layout for 190+ page annual Newsletter 2014–2020
  • Member, American Association of Museum Curators, 2006–2017
  • Member, Association of Print Scholars, 2015–present
  • Grants Committee, Association of Print Scholars, 2019–2021

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