Education
Continuing Education, Curating Craft Intensive, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, 2017
Master of Arts, Exhibition and Museum Studies, San Francisco Art Institute, 2011-2013
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art History, University of Utah, 2006-2011
Employment
Curatorial Director, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, 2023-Present
Curator, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, 2020-2023
Assistant Curator, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, 2015-2020
Board Member, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, 2020-Present
Co-curator, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, 2013-Present
Registrar and Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, 2014-2015
Docent, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, 2013-2014
Gallery Manager, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, 2013-2014
Teaching Assistant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, 2013
Publicity Intern, San Francisco Film Society, 2012
Exhibitions Producer, Swell Gallery, San Francisco 2011-2012
Lecture Assistant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, 2011-2012
Arts and Entertainment Staff Writer, Daily Utah Chronicle, Salt Lake City, 2010-2011
Education Intern, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, 2010
Exhibitions
Juror, Variations 2024, 2024, Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA.
Curator, Concrete Journals: Anne Hicks Siberell, 2023, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life, 2023, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Juror, 44th Annual Contemporary Crafts, 2023, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
Juror, Craft Nouveau, 2022, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
Co-Curator, Mode Brut, 2021, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, Almost Public/Semi-Exposed 6, 2019, ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Juror, Bridging the Gap: Contemporary Craft Practices, 2019, Arrowmont School for Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Curator, Interior/Exterior, 2019, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey, 2019, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, Almost Public/Semi-Exposed 5, 2018, ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fine Crafts Juror, Ingenuity, 2018, Marin Society for Artists Gallery, Marin, CA
Project Curator, Judy Kensley McKie: Cast of Characters, 2018, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Assistant Curator, t.w.five, 2018, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, Almost Public/Semi-Exposed 4, 2017, ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Curator, Rubber Fangs!, 2017, Paxton Gate Curiosities for Kids, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, Almost Public/Semi-Exposed 3, 2016, ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, Marianne Lettieri: Reflections, 2016, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, Almost Public/Semi-Exposed 2, 2015, ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, Constructed Communication, 2014, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, Almost Public/Semi-Exposed, 2014, ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, Everything Out There: Bay Area’s First Triennial Now, 2013, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Curator, Whimsical Sisters, 2013, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Co-Curator, We Still Read Fairytales, 2012, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS
Certificate in “Curating in Art, Science & Technology: Potentials and Pitfalls”, Node Center – Curatorial Studies Online, September 2018
Certificate in “A Practical Guide to Curating”, Node Center – Curatorial Studies Online, April 2016
Excellence in Scholarship Master of Arts Thesis Award, San Francisco Arts Institute, San Francisco, CA, May 2013
Publications
“(L.A. in S.F.) Julie Weitz at the Contemporary Jewish Museum”, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, November 2021
“(L.A. in S.F.) Stimulus at Guerrero Gallery", Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, August 2020
“Cut to the Quick: Antonius-Tín Bui’s Not Sorry for the Trouble”, Surface Design Journal, June 2020
“Linda Gass: and then this happened…”, Fiber Art Network, January 2020
“Jamie Bardsley”, American Craft Magazine, January 2020
“Stranger Visions: Questioning Tech’s Ethics in a DNA Boom”, Art Practical, November 2018
“Deconstructed Dreamscapes”, Candy Coated Cortex, August 2018
“The Visible Invisible: A Ruffled Look at United States History”, Surface Design Journal, July 2018
“Seeing with the Same Eye: An Interview with Piero Mussi”, Judy Kensley McKie: Cast of Characters, June 2018
“High Femme Kawaii: The Lucky Paintings of Ingrid V. Wells”, Lucky Paintings, August 2016
“Lewd at Joy Gallery”, Daily Serving, January 2016
“In Review: Hang|Over”, Studio 110, June 2014
“Proximities 1: What Time is it There?”, Daily Serving, July 2013
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
Speaker, “Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life”, Art Market, San Francisco, CA, April 23, 2023.
Speaker, In/Visible Talks 2021, San Francisco, CA 2020.
Speaker, “Bridging the Gap”, Arrowmont School for Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, October 2019.
Speaker, “Interior/Exterior Curator Walkthrough”, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA, July 2019.
Speaker, “Judy Kensley McKie: Cast of Characters Curator Walkthrough”, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA, June 2018.
Panelist, “Life After Art School Workshop”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, March 2017.
Speaker, “t.w.five Curator Walkthrough”, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA, January 2017.
Symposium Panelist, “In the Temple of the Screen: Pedagogy and Religiosity in Cult Cinema”; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, May 2013.
Symposium Panelist, “Out of Site: Ephemerality and Archive, Restaging InSite 2005”; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, April 2013
Speaker, “Sachsenspeigel: Law Books and Criticality”; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, April 2011.
Speaker, “Participation: Felix Gonzalez-Torres”; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2010.