About

Hi, I’m a Creative project manager & Content Designer .

With 10+ years of experience in operations, product development, and content creation, I’ve developed a hybrid identity dedicated to both strategy and artistry. I enjoy crafting processes and tools that help creative teams be their best selves and do their best work.

Work Experiences

  • The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

    Within The Met’s Digital Department, I work with UX designers in Product Development and producers in Media Production to shape how we tell stories about collection areas online.

    In addition to visual direction and story design of new products like Primers, I’ve also worked on the research and development of new series like Spotlight. Day-to-day, I collaborate with teams across the Museum including Conservation and Education to redesign and support their web and editorial presence especially as the website continues strategic backend and frontend development.

  • Various Projects, Inc. is a multidisciplinary creative collaboration often working in blurry areas between design, art, and commerce, to create objects, garments, accessories, books, furniture, and spaces as the need arises.

    From 2016 to 2019, I supported a wide range of projects including: website management, studio photography production, retail operations including Project No. 8 and specialty pop-ups, e-commerce and wholesale operations for the studio’s product line, Various Keytags, as well as image research for the first monograph of the late designer, Ward Bennett.

  • AQUA Studio is a wellness studio located in TriBeCa that’s dedicated to a holistic approach to wellness: its foundational aquacycling classes are offered alongside spa treatments, land-based exercise classes, prenatal yoga, nutritional coaching as well as a shoppable curation of activewear and wellness goods.

    AQUA Studio was my first work experience post-grad where, in addition to learning day-to-day operations at the front desk, I developed and produced editorial content to support the Studio’s renewed brand identity.

    Working from the front desk (a pivotal meeting spot between clients, colleagues, and the studio’s founder) taught me to approach strategic and creative work from multiple perspectives.

  • The Drawing Center

    In Fall 2014, I concepted and developed public programs for the Center’s exhibition, ​Thread Lines​, about artists who sew, knit, and weave.

    Deborah Berke Partners - Architects

    In Summer 2013, I assisted Deborah Berke in creating a personal archive of her 30+ years of architectural teaching materials including correspondence, student work, printed matter, and photography. I also concepted and built a new in-house library on the occasion of the firm’s studio expansion and remodel. The library was organized into two zones bridged by a conference/reference table: a productive wall of technical reference books and a second browsing wall for interdisciplinary inspiration.

ART PRACTICE

At work, my art practice helps me empathize with creative teams and problems. It’s also my sixth sense for processing experiences and knowledge. Although I have soft spots for watercolor, paper collage, and photography, I enjoy searching for media that best respects and expresses a given subject matter.

  • Looking & Drawing @ The Met

    With the serendipitous discovery of free drawing classes by way of my older sisters and NYC Public Schools as well as the generosity of Met educators like Randolph (Randy) Williams, I’ve been drawing at The Met since grade-school. The original class series was titled “Looking & Drawing” — a framing that still grounds my commitment to observation.

  • Illustration

    When photographs alone aren’t enough, I enjoy turning to illustration to share a point of view or memory. Lately, I’ve been drawing on my iPad during road trips to Upstate New York. This summer, I’m collaborating with my younger self to republish a children’s story I collaged back in high school called “Lost Things” — a past winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Competition!

  • Image Research

    When researching images for projects, I enjoy arranging connections between sets of images. These discoveries are less about making visual comparisons than they are about building relationships and opening up conversation. Collecting and sequencing images in this way helps me derive meaning from singular images while also organizing idea threads to pick up later for more researched editorial projects.

  • Documentary Photography

    When I stepped back from studio art in college to pursue more varied coursework, photography became my main mode of visual note-taking. I have a penchant for still life (even in the wild) but, regardless of subject matter, I’d say my aesthetic direction is always to observe quietly. My intention is for viewers to share the lens with me, experiencing the act of noticing something and being present with whatever’s pictured.

SKILL SETS

  • Content, Visual, UX, and Organizational Design

  • Content Strategy, Curation, and Management

  • Project Management

  • Project and User Research

  • Photography / Multi-Media Production

  • Art Direction

  • Retail, Wholesale, and E-commerce Strategy

EDUCATION

I studied History of Art and Architecture at Yale University (2010–14) and the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2012-13), earning a dean’s distinction for my thesis on Expressive Construction in Men’s Dress Shirts.

Post-grad, I’ve enjoyed taking both theory and practice-driven courses including:​

  • JULY 2021, NEW YORK / ONLINE

    The course surveyed history of design and fashion in the United States and Europe with a focus on how conceptions of race, gender, and class inform and inflect the major issues and debates that have characterized and constructed histories of clothing and objects.

    *Taught by Michele Majer and Freyja Hartzell at Bard Graduate Center

  • JUNE 2020, NEW YORK / ONLINE

    The course drew from the long and rich thread throughout cinema history centered around collecting and museum collections. Participants explored various modalities of filmic discourse to create a short-form film produced from their enquiries into museums, the objects that live within them, as well as archival and found footage. By exploring the museum through film – from an architectural setting or didactic experience, to the subversive – the workshop focused on the filmmaker’s potential to transform these cultural institutions.

    *Taught by Jessica Sarah Rinland at Union Docs

  • SPRING 2020 – SPRING 2021, LONDON / ONLINE

    This course met weekly on Saturdays for a full day divided between seminar-style discussions and studio time. Each installment of the course studied the work and processes of a suite of different artists working between two- and three-dimensional mediums in order to develop new ways of seeing.

    *Taught by Marcus Cornish at the Royal Drawing School

  • SPRING 2019, ONLINE

    This course offered an overview of the styling ecosystem and creative process including: the role and skill sets of a stylist, key processes and people involved in the creation of a shoot, identification and conceptualization of ideas, sourcing, editing, and styling looks, as well as the development and promotion of one’s own creative identity and vision.

    *Taught by Lucinda Chambers at Business of Fashion

  • SUMMER 2018, BERLIN

    The Perennial Institute was a week-long educational project in Berlin exploring creativity through the lens of plants. Workshops included scent-based research with Scent Club Berlin, foraging and cooking with Andrew Rewald at Contemporary Food Lab, and Ikebana lessons with Satoka Hatayama at Floating University.

    *Taught by Julka Almquist and Jai McKenzie