Based in New York City, I am currently the Curator of Native American Art at the Montclair Art Museum and formerly a Curatorial Associate in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. My interdisciplinary background includes anthropology, design and design history, and the natural sciences.

I focus on the material and natural worlds of the Americas, particularly Indigenous and intercultural dress and textiles, past and present. My curatorial approach is collaborative. I strive to activate museum collections through (re)connection with communities of origin and inspire critically engaged museum audiences.

I'm a scholar of the Native Northwest Coast and Alaska. My research addresses themes such as intercultural exchange, colonialism, and Indigenous agency; animal materials; and the collection, circulation, and display of cultural objects and designs.

Recent Exhibition Projects

• Meryl McMaster: Chronologies
  Montclair Art Museum | 2023
  Curator
• New Acquisitions: Jeremy Dennis
  Montclair Art Museum | 2022
  Curator
• From My Home to Yours: Caroline Monnet and Laura Ortman
  Montclair Art Museum | 2022
  Hosting curator (premiered @ MOMENTA Biennale 2021)
• Eric-Paul Riege – [][][][]
  Durational performance within Color Riot!
  Montclair Art Museum | Dec 11, 2021
  Curator
• Color Riot! How Color Changed Navajo Textiles
  Montclair Art Museum | 2021
  Hosting curator (exhibition from the Heard Museum)
• Lenape dioramas reinterpretation
  State Museum of Pennsylvania | 2020–2021
  Consultant
• A Woman Who Paints Tangkas | 2021
  "The Camera is Our Weapon": Kayapó Video Warriors in the Amazon | 2020
  Sanightaaq: Yupik Ceremonial Gut Parka | 2019
  American Museum of Natural History/Columbia University
  Editor and course discussant
• The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology
  Bard Graduate Center | 2019
  Contributing researcher and writer
• Northwest Coast Hall Renovation
  American Museum of Natural History | 2017–2018
  Curatorial Associate
• Gallery of Alaska Renovation
  University of Alaska Museum of the North | 2014–2017
  Editorial advisor, interpretive planner
• Digital Totem, Northwest Coast Hall
  American Museum of Natural History | 2016
  Editorial producer, community liaison

Selected Research & Publications

• Fashioning Resurgence, special issue of Fashion Studies | 2022:
  Discussant—Land Based Fashion: A Leading Fashion Framework
  
• Participant, Otsego Institute Workshop for Native American Art History | October 2022
  
• Museum Anthropology | Feb 14, 2022:
  Review of Incorporating Culture. Solen Roth. 2018.
  
• Journal of Folklore Research Reviews | Oct 8, 2021:
  Review of Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast
  Edited by Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and Aldona Jonaitis. 2020.
  
• Textile Society of America News | Dec 14, 2020: Member Monday with Laura J. Allen
• Hidden Stories/Human Lives: Proceedings of the
  Textile Society of America 17th Biennial Symposium | October 2020:
  An Uncommon Ammunition Case: Interpreting “Transitional” Textiles
  and Social Worlds in Nineteenth-Century Tlingit Alaska
• National Parks magazine | Spring 2020: A New View
  
• Bard Graduate Center exhibition – The Story Box | 2019:
  Whose "Cannibal" Masks?
  Fieldwork in Fort Rupert
  George Emmons
• National Parks magazine | Fall 2019: Exposed
• Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2018:
  Turkey Vessel, 7th–10th c.
  Border Fragment, Figures with Staves, 4th–3rd c. B.C.
• National Parks magazine | Summer 2015: The Price of a Feather

Selected Presentations

• New Perspectives in Native American Art History; Univ. of Oklahoma | Nov 7, 2020:
  "Northwest Coast Native Idioms in Midcentury Modernisms: Tracking the Sea-Bear"
• Textile Society of America Symposium | Oct 17, 2020:
  "An Uncommon Ammunition Case: Interpreting 'Transitional' Textiles
  and Social Worlds in Nineteenth-Century Tlingit Alaska."
  » Winner, Founding Presidents Award
• Bard Graduate Center M.A. Symposium | Jun 12, 2020:
  "Fashioning the Northwest Coast: 200 Years of Indigenous Dress"
  » Winner of the Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Award
• Native American Art Studies Association Meeting | Oct 3, 2019 (with Meghann O'Brien):
  "'Ancient Couture' and the Northwest Coast"
• Conference of the Council for Museum Anthropology | Sep 20, 2019 (with Aaron Glass):
  "Reflections on The Story Box: Remediating Franz Boas in a (Meta)Collaborative Exhibition"