Emerging Conservation Professional
Exhibitions
In the spring of 2019, I co-curated an exhibition at Winterthur Museum titled Open for Business: Photography, Trade, and Self-Image.
I am pictured here standing at the entrance to Open For Business. The introductory text written by myself and my fellow co-curators is to my right, and the exhibition is in the gallery behind me. We chose this wall color to reflect interior design styles of the early 20th century, in the center of the time period on which the exhibition focuses. Photo Credit: Carolanne Deal
Just outside of the gallery is the labelled "Non-Selfie Station." Here, visitors can have their photos taken, participating in the same practice on which the exhibition focuses. We created the hashtag, #openforbusinessDE, for visitors to share their pictures. Photo Credit: Carolanne Deal
For Winterthur's Member Appreciation Day, my co-curator Carolanne Deal and I were stationed at the entrance to our gallery with antique photos from the University of Delaware's study collection. Here, we talked to members about identifying different historic photographic processes and themes of the exhibition. Photo Credit: Annabelle Camp
I am pictured here standing at the entrance to Open For Business. The introductory text written by myself and my fellow co-curators is to my right, and the exhibition is in the gallery behind me. We chose this wall color to reflect interior design styles of the early 20th century, in the center of the time period on which the exhibition focuses. Photo Credit: Carolanne Deal
During my graduate course in exhibition planning and interpretation taught by Dr. Catharine Dann Roeber, my fellow co-curators, Carolanne Deal and Rebecca Olsen learned about the complex process of planning an exhibition from the beginning stages. We began by selecting a few images from a pre-selected group based on a few themes. We specifically wanted to focus on telling the stories of historically underrepresented groups, women, and the development of new photographic processes which democratized the practice of self-representation.