Curated Exhibitions

Betty Cooke: The Circle and the Line, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, opening September 2021 (catalogue)

Force of Nature: Highlights from the Myrna B. Palley Art Jewelry Collection, co-curator, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, June 2021 — June 2022

Gilded Chicago: Portraits of an Era, The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, September 2018 — January 2019

New York Silver: Then and Now, Museum of the City of New York, New York, June 2017 — May 2018

L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters, The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, February 2017 — January 2018; traveling (catalogue)

What Would Mrs. Webb Do? A Founder’s Vision, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, September 2014 — February 2015

Gilded New York: Design, Fashion, and Society, co-curator, Museum of the City of New York, New York, March 2012 — May 2017 (catalogue)

Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, co-curator, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, June 2007 — January 2012 (catalogue)

Artistic Luxury: Faberge — Tiffany — Lalique, co-curator, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, October 2008 (catalogue)

Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, January 2008; traveling (catalogue)

Consulting Curator

Senior curator, Designed by Women, The Stewart Program for Modern Design, Montreal, Canada, February 2019 — present

Consulting Curator, Parall(elles) A History of Women in Design, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, February 2023

Curator, Betty Cooke Jewelry Collection, Baltimore, Fall 2017 — Spring 2019

Reader, Looking at Jewelry by Susanne Gansicke and Yvonne Markowitz, (J. Paul Getty Museum), 2018

Consultant, Phillip Hammerslough American Silver Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, April 2016 — January 2017

Consitant, Portrait Collection, Museum of the City of New York, New York, August — December 2013

Consultant. Jewelry Collection, The Henry Hosmer Morse Collection, Winter Park, Florida, 2013

Books & Exhibition Catalogues

Author

Taming the Beast: Silver by Earl Krentzin (Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2022)

Betty Cooke: The Circle and the Line (Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2020)

The Newport Experience: Sustaining Historic Preservation into the 21st Century (Newport, London and New York: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers and Preservation Society of Newport County, 2020)

L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters (New York and Chicago: The Monacelli Press and The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, 2016)

Shaped by the Revolution: Portraits of a Boston Family — Speakman, Rowe, Inman, Linzee, Coffin, and Amory (Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums, 2005)

Editor (unless otherwise noted)

Force of Nature: Highlights from the Myrna B. Palley Art Jewelry Collection, co-author, (Miami: Lowe Art Museum, 2021)

Gilded New York: Design, Fashion, and Society, co-editor, (New York: The Monacelli Press and the Museum of the City of New York, 2013)

Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, general editor, (New York: Harry N. Abrams and the Museum of Arts and Design, 2011)

Silver of the Americas, 1600 - 2000, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, lead-author and co-editor, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2008)

Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett, (Brockton, MA, and New York: Fuller Craft Museum and Hudson Hill Press, 2008)

American Luxury: Jewels from the House of Tiffany, co-author and co-editor with Yvonne Markowitz (Antique Collectors Club, 2008)

Colonial Silver and Silversmithing in New England, 1620 - 1815, co-author and co-editor (Boston: Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2001)

Teaching Experience

Adjunct Professor and Thesis Advisor, Parsons, The New School, New York, Spring 2017 — present

Art Critic, Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, April 2016

Visiting Critic and Thesis Advisor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Fall 2013 — present

Service to the Field

American Ceramic Circle, Book Award Committee, 2019 — present

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, New England Advisory Committee, 1998 — 2000 

Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, Advisory committee, 2009 — present 

Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Asheville, North Carolina, Craft Research Fund Selection Panel, 2016

Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Long Range Planning Committee, 1998 — 1999; Chair, Nominating Committee, 2000 

Decorative Arts Society, Chair, Robert C. Smith Award, 2015 —18 

Friends of American Arts at Yale, Program chair, Steering Committee 2012 — 2019; Treasurer, 2019 — present

Fuller Craft Museum, Collections Committee, 2004-07 

Massachusetts Historical Society, Art Committee, 2003-06; Collections Committee, 2007 

Metalwerx, Massachusetts, Board of Directors, 2006-07 

Municipal Arts Commission of the City of New Rochelle, appointed February 2021.

New York Silver Society, Steering Committee, 2008 — present 

Old South Meeting House, Art Committee, Boston, Massachusetts, 1996 — 2007

Paul Revere Memorial Association, National Council, May 2017 — present 

Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Resource Committee, Advisory committee, 2000 — 2009; Board member 2017 — present; Exhibitions and Education Committee 2017 — 2018; Chair, Governance, 2019; Strategic Task Force, 2019 

Society for North American Goldsmiths, Professional Guidelines Committee, 2006 — 2008 

External Reviewer, for faculty tenure and promotion; double-blind manuscript reviews