Curatorial & Research
My love of art and artists led me to my first career as a curator. My early work in museums was as a graduate intern at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art and Renwick Gallery, which led to my first curatorial job at George Washington University’s Dimock Gallery. My subsequent move to San Francisco in the late 1970s, where there were few jobs for young curators, compelled me to be quite creative in order to pursue a career in the arts. After spending 4 years working as a curator for the Art Museum Association of America (prior to its merge with the AFA), I became an independent curator. Since the mid-1980s I have worked as a curator at Bay Area museums including the de Saisset Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, the Mexican Museum, and Jewish Museum San Francisco. I also served as a curator at the Berkeley Art Center and San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. As an independent curator, I have curated and juried exhibitions for numerous venues, including Mills College Art Museum, Kala Art Institute, the Magnes Museum, and Meridian Gallery, San Francisco.
Since 2005 my curatorial activities have included more personally creative and collaborative projects, and often take place in public places. Such projects include the Garage Biennial, San Francisco (with Justin Hoover, et al); Talk Sandwich, Interventions Conference, UC Santa Cruz (with Dee Hibbert-Jones); Pop-Up Café, The Wave Organ, SF (a project of Maude Haack-Freschenco); and Listening and Public Engagement (with Brenda Hutchinson), Meridian Gallery, SF.
My love of art and artists led me to my first career as a curator. My early work in museums was as a graduate intern at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art and Renwick Gallery, which led to my first curatorial job at George Washington University’s Dimock Gallery. My subsequent move to San Francisco in the late 1970s, where there were few jobs for young curators, compelled me to be quite creative in order to pursue a career in the arts. After spending 4 years working as a curator for the Art Museum Association of America (prior to its merge with the AFA), I became an independent curator. Since the mid-1980s I have worked as a curator at Bay Area museums including the de Saisset Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, the Mexican Museum, and Jewish Museum San Francisco. I also served as a curator at the Berkeley Art Center and San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. As an independent curator, I have curated and juried exhibitions for numerous venues, including Mills College Art Museum, Kala Art Institute, the Magnes Museum, and Meridian Gallery, San Francisco.
Since 2005 my curatorial activities have included more personally creative and collaborative projects, and often take place in public places. Such projects include the Garage Biennial, San Francisco (with Justin Hoover, et al); Talk Sandwich, Interventions Conference, UC Santa Cruz (with Dee Hibbert-Jones); Pop-Up Café, The Wave Organ, SF (a project of Maude Haack-Freschenco); and Listening and Public Engagement (with Brenda Hutchinson), Meridian Gallery, SF.