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Résumé

Work
Experience

2024 - Present

Registrar
Faith Ringgold Estate

  • Catalog & organize a comprehensive inventory of the artist's estate.

  • Implement a detailed database of the collection, documenting artwork titles, dimensions, mediums, images & condition.

2024 - Present

TMS Database Specialist
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

  • Provide data entry in accordance with NMAfA’s established TMS standards & guidelines, including entering results of a recent inventory & records for new acquisitions, loans & exhibitions.

  • Provide informal training & support to new & existing TMS users.

  • Prepare digital images & importing them into the Smithsonian DAMS, ensuring images are correctly linked from the DAMS to TMS.

2023-2024

Exhibition Registrar
Japanese Art Society of America

  • Coordinate loan agreements, packing and shipping arrangements, installation schedules for the touring exhibition "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan" which includes almost 200 works from over 50 lenders

2023

Contract Registrar
Studio Museum in Harlem

  • Created workflow and tracking process for photographing over 1,200 works from the permanent collection

  • Collaborated with staff to refine existing policies and procedures for art handling and viewing requests, incoming art, & location tracking

2015 - 2022

Senior Associate Registrar for Collections
Harvard Art Museums

  • Developed & implemented policies and procedures relating to the permanent and long-term loan collections.

  • Compiled & maintained legal documentation and physical histories of the permanent collection including all related records and reports.

  • Served as liaison with numerous University Offices including: Offices of General Counsel, the Governing Boards & Insurance Carriers.

  • Developed & implemented comprehensive collection inventory plan

  • Led Collections Management’s digital initiative intended to replace paper transactions wherever possible.

  • Responsible for all digital files, including but not limited to non-studio quality object images and scans of all paper records.

  • Supervise assistant registrar for collections and perform all related staff performance evaluations and goal setting for the department.

  • Oversaw the registration elements of two major and seven minor exhibitions including domestic and international loans, working directly with curators, artists and lenders.

2010 - 2015

Associate Registrar for Collections
Harvard Art Museums

  • Facilitated acquisition and deaccession projects, including preparing agendas and coordinating acquisition meetings, correspondence, contracts, shipping and maintaining appropriate files.

  • Assessed object condition, produced reports & consulted with conservators as needed.

  • Advised TMS Administrator on collections management features and development.

2007 - 2010

Assistant Registrar 
Harvard Art Museums

  • Responsible for processing outgoing loans, shepherding the request through the multistep internal review process, overseeing packing, shipping and installation logistics.

  • Surveyed all paintings for suitability to move and oversaw large scale furniture packing in preparation for museum renovation and expansion.

Education

2003

Boston College
Bachelor’s Degree

Major in Art History 

Minor in French 

Skills
& Expertise

  • Domestic, international and virtual courier

  • Member of ARCS (Association of Registrars & Collections Specialists).

  • Attended numerous professional conferences related to registration methods & legal issues in museum administration.

  • Useful Technologies: TMS by Gallery Systems, Collector Systems, Basecamp for Project Management, All Microsoft Office Products, All Google Suite Products

Notable Exhibitions
& Press

Over the course of my career, I’ve had the opportunity to support a wide range of exhibitions — from major international tours to deeply researched, collection-based shows. A few highlights:

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