Professional Experience

Academic Service, University Of Texas At Dallas

2023

Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History:
Chair, Asian Art & Architectural History Search Committee (2023–24)

Harry W. Bass, Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology
External Chair, Oral Examiination for PhD candidate Shivika Mathur (spring 2024)

Media Interviews & Appearances

2023

Interview with Joni Palmer, Take Another Look: “What is Public Art”? Albuquerque Public Art Program Podcast (August 2023)

2022

Interview with Ambrose Glick, A is for Architecture Podcast (September 2022)

2020

CNN New York, Represented: Statue of Women’s Rights Pioneers, Central Park (August 2020)

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/08/25/central-park-womens-rights-statue-suffrage-doc.cnn

2018

KCUR Kansas City, Up to Date (March 2018)

2017

PBS/WTTW Chicago, 10 Monuments That Changed America (2018)

2017

The Christian Science Monitor (December 2017)

2017

American Public Media, Marketplace with Adriene Hill (August 2017)

2017

Interview with Joe Horse Capture, Minnesota Historical Society, History, Memory, and Art in the Minnesota State Capitol, video and interpretation (2017)

2016

Kentucky Educational TV, Kentucky By Design (2017)

2015

SCETV, Columbia, South Carolina, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Woman on Paper (2016)

2014

University of Iowa Media Productions, Jackson Pollock’s Mural: The Story of a Modern Masterpiece (2015)

2014

217 Films, Enough to Live On: The Art of the WPA (2015)

2014

Self-Reliant Film, Temporary Memorials

2012

Modular Media, Searching: Contemporary Public Art

2010

Narrator, Museum Without Walls Audio Program on Augustus Saint-Gaudens's sculpture The Pilgrim, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia (launched June 2010)

2003

PBS/WNET, New York, American Masters, Henry Luce and Time-Life’s America: A Vision of Empire (2004)

2002

Talking History Radio Show, Organization of American Historians, “Labor in the Great Depression,” airdate December 30, 2002.

2000

Talking History Radio Show, Organization of American Historians, “Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image,” airdate January 3, 2000.

2019–2023

Expert witness, Langdon & Emison, Attorneys at Law, Kansas City.

1986

Expert witness, Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & McKee, Attorneys at Law, Cleveland

Curatorial

2021–

Project Consultant, Grandma Moses: Reconsidering an American Icon, Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibit 2025–2026)

2015

Juror, See America: Advertising Our National Treasures through Graphic Design, Meadows Museum of Art, Centenary College, Shreveport (exhibit 2015)

2013–2014

Lead scholar, consultant, and catalogue essayist for Kentucky by Design: American Culture, Regionalism, And the New Deal, Frazier History Museum, Louisville (exhibit 2016–2017)

2010–2011

Contributing editor and catalogue essayist for Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (exhibit 2011)

2005–2007

Contributing editor and catalogue essayist for Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (exhibit 2007–2008)

2002–2005

Consultant and catalogue essayist for Spirited Moderns: Robert Henri’s Women Art Students, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo (exhibit 2005)

1995–1997

Consultant and catalogue essayist for The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks, Centre Canadian d’Architecture, Montreal (exhibit 1997–2001)

1993–1995

Consultant and catalogue essayist, Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles (exhibit 1995–97)