Exhibitions

Indy Parks Throughout the Years

To celebrate the Indianapolis Bicentennial in 2020, the Garfield Park Arts Center put on an exhibit that reflected on the history of Indy Parks and Recreation. I took lead on researching some of the well-known, quirky, and difficult stories connected to Indy Parks with help from Kavita Mahoney, Jordan Ryan, and others within Indy Parks. The exhibit, while virtual, featured historical narratives and images sourced from local archives at the Indiana Historical Society and the Indiana Album.

I created activities for people to download and print out, including three (1, 2, 3) historical postcards turned coloring page postcards and a zine parks passport, inspiring people to check out some of the well-known and iconic parks within Indianapolis. For the exhibit opening, we pulled together a panel of historians, Indy Parks staff, and Garfield Park neighbors to talk about Garfield Park and Indy Parks over the years. The exhibit and opening were part of the Spirit and Place Festival.

Virtual Exhibitions

During the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, the Garfield Park Arts Center pivoted our programming and started to host our exhibitions virtually on our website. I was tasked with creating the format for these exhibits, and worked with artists to coordinate file and information exchanges, developed exhibit graphics, and put together virtual First Fridays on the GPAC Instagram account.

Virtual exhibitions include: Encounter, Home, Yellow, Spectrum III, Hoosier Women in Art, Localized, Tints & Shades, and Legacy.

Promotional material for one of the virtual exhibitions.

An installation view at the Indiana State Library.

Welcome to the Museum! History and Heritage Preservation at the Indiana School for the Deaf

In Spring 2019, I worked with Kris Johnson to develop and design an exhibit hosted at the Indiana State Library, featuring images from the ISD archives and Indiana State Library and objects from the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and the Indiana Deaf History Museum.

This project included some research for content and images, development and design of graphics, and coordination with the different partners for installation.

Elevator Pitch: Objects that Matter

As part of a Curatorial Practices course in Fall 2018 at IUPUI, I participated in developing and designing a pop-up exhibit, “Elevator Pitch: Objects that Matter”, based on Orhan Parmuk’s “A Modest Manifesto for Museums”. Inspired by the work I had produced at a workshop, “Design as Creative Process” at the Columbus Area Arts Council, my group and I created two zines posing questions to viewers about how they could interpret their own objects in the same light as museum artifacts.

The guidelines of the project limited the exhibition spaces to the interior of the Cavanaugh Hall building, on the IUPUI campus. Our group decided to use one of the elevators for the pop-up. Using the elevator forced people to interact with us or the exhibit materials, which was a more active take on museum viewership than most.

Facilitating the zine activity as part of the exhibit.

An Illustrated Man: The Art of Ray Bradbury

Over the summer and fall of 2018, I developed a month-long exhibit for the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at the IUPUI Campus Center Cultural Arts Gallery. The topic of the exhibit paired with an annual presentation given by the director, Dr. Jonathan Eller. “An Illustrated Man: The Art of Ray Bradbury” primarily was an exhibit of reproductions of visual paraphernalia associated with Ray Bradbury’s fiction: movies, plays, book covers and illustrations, and comics. Using Sketchup and Adobe Photoshop, I developed the layout of the space as well as the design for labels and collages of Bradbury’s book covers over the decades.

During my position at the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, I developed an exhibit concept for a smaller space within the Center, highlighting censorship surrounding Fahrenheit 451.

The House Life Project

In conjunction with the IUPUI Museum Studies’ Exhibit Planning and Design course and the Sam H. Jones Community Service Scholarship, I worked with Laura M. Holzman to curate and design a traveling exhibit covering The House Life Project, an arts initiative that took place in vacant homes on Indianapolis’ near-east side. I supported the launch of a publication by creating and running a social media campaign, served as liaison with artists whose work was exhibited, designed and managed printing of installation elements, and assisted with installation and deinstallation of the show.