Conversation with AJ Masthay and Helen Kennedy, Mattatuck Museum; moderator, July 23, 2026
“Rethinking Collections, Part 2: A Workshop on Collection Gallery Reinstallations,” Connecticut League of Museums Annual Conference, organizer and facilitator, June 1, 2026
“Reflections on 250 Years in American Art,” Mattatuck Museum; in conversation with Kate Criscitiello, May 21, 2026
Conversation with Wende Caporale-Greene, Artists Fellowship, May 11, 2026
“Fiber Forward: New Dialogues in Tactility and Form,” Surface Design Association Symposium; moderator for conversation with Sarah Urist Green and Erika Diamond, Feb. 7, 2026
“Francelise Dawkins: Collaging Textiles,” Textile Talks (organized by Studio Art Quilt Associates and Surface Design Association), organizer and interlocutor, Oct. 15, 2025
“Storytelling in Unconventional Spaces: New Approaches to Student Curatorial Projects,” Association of Academic Museums and Galleries Annual Conference; co-organizer and panelist, June 2025
“Yvette Molina: Art, Community, and Care,” Textile Talks (organized by Studio Art Quilt Associates and Surface Design Association), April 2, 2025
“‘Blow some my way’: Jazz-Age Women and Cigarette Holders,” Art Deco Society of New York, Nov. 20, 2024
“‘What was before’: Lenore Tawney and Her Circle, 1950–1963,” in “Revisiting Fiber Art Histories,” Textile Society of America Symposium, Nov. 14, 2024
“In Conversation: Paula Wilson and Rebecca McNamara,” California African American Museum, Los Angeles, June 13, 2024
“Fiber Artists vs Artificial Intelligence: What We Know That It Doesn’t,” Textile Talks (organized by Studio Art Quilt Associates and Surface Design Association), conversation with Ursula Wolz, March 13, 2024
“Museums for Change: Art and Activism in and around the Museum,” panelist, Wolfsonian-FIU, Feb. 2, 2024
Untitled presentation of curatorial sound-art projects, Interdisciplinary Arts course taught by Neil Leonard, Berklee College of Music, Feb. 16, 2024
Untitled presentation of recent projects, in “Connections and Collaboration,” Surface Design Association 2024 Conference: Parallel Play—Exploring the Intersection of Individual Artistic Vision and Group Creativity, Feb. 3, 2024
“Made with a Wink: Play and Wonder in the Art of Paula Wilson,” Textile Talks (organized by Studio Art Quilt Associates and Surface Design Association), Nov. 1, 2023
“Textile Talk: Fiber Revolution—A Surface Design Journal Party,” panelist, Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., April 20, 2022
“Radical Fiber: A Symposium on Art and Science,” symposium organizer/host, Tang Teaching Museum, Jan. 28–29, 2022
“Museum Partnerships for Access and Inclusion,” panel organizer/presenter, Museum Association of New York Partnership Forum, Southern Tier, November 9, 2021
“Accelerating Change: Case Studies from a Three-Year Grant Project on Accession and Inclusion,” in the panel “Small Steps Toward Significant Change: Institutional Collaborations and Conversations,” panelist, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) Annual Conference, June 22, 2020
“Reviewing a Permanent Collection,” virtual guide/facilitator, Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) & AAMC Foundation Curatorial Gatherings, June 9, 2020; invited
“Global Topics for Local Audiences,” webinar co-organizer, Association of Art Museum Curators, Nov. 14, 2019; moderator/co-organizer: Melissa Buron, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
“Exhibiting and Teaching Challenging Material,” roundtable co-facilitator, Teaching & Learning with Museum Exhibitions—Innovations across the Disciplines, conference, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, June 22, 2019; invited
“Fashionable Widowhood in Saratoga: The Etiquette of Material Mourning in the Late Victorian Period,” Saratoga Springs History Museum, April 24, 2019; presented in conjunction with the exhibition Death Becomes Her
“The Resistance is Fiber: Contemporary Political Voices in Leisure Crafts and Fiber Arts,” 7th Annual Capital District Feminist Studies Consortium Conference, Skidmore College, Feb. 1, 2019
“Crowdsourcing Exhibitions: Lessons Learned,” live webinar for the AAMC Professional Development Committee, Oct. 15, 2015
Served as organizer and moderator. Panelists: Katie Buckingham, Curator, Museum of Glass; Eric Schmalz, Citizen History Community Manager, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; and Daniel Sharp, Arts Outreach Specialist, Kickstarter
Conversation with Skidmore Professor of English Barbara Black on Yinka Shonibare’s photographic series Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, and the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray, Nov. 9, 2017, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College; held in conjunction with the exhibition Other Side: Art, Object, Self
“Smoking and Sociability: Cigarette Holders in the Deco Age,” presented in conjunction with a private book signing and display of objects in celebration of A Token of Elegance: Cigarette Holders in Vogue, for the Art Deco Society of New York, April 28, 2016, and as a Research Forum talk for Indianapolis Museum of Art staff, April 20, 2016
“Mourning Widows in Nineteenth-Century New York: A Sartorial Public Display of Grief and Independence,” presented at Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts and Design, April 11, 2014, and as a brown bag lunch for Cooper Hewitt staff, Sept. 19, 2014
“Mantel as ‘Little Museum’ and Other Musings: Late Nineteenth-Century Writers Debate the Domestic Mantelpiece,” presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Annual Conference, Nov. 9, 2013
“Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Who’s the Sexiest of Them All?: An Analysis of the Disney Princess Online Fan Art Phenomenon on DeviantART.com,” presented at the Graduate Student Symposium, Parsons Festival 2013, May 16, 2013
“How William Lescaze Led the Future of New York Townhouse Design: Modern Residential Architecture in Early Twentieth-Century Manhattan,” presented at the Graduate Student Symposium, Parsons Festival 2012, May 11, 2012
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