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• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics

  - Video storyboarding and interview directing for multimedia guide

  Matisse in the Studio

  - Audio in conversation based format, collaborating with second venue for exhibtion, SFMOMA

  Megacities Asia

  - Interviewed all participating artists remotely in locations throuhout Asia, created storyboards for video incorporarting video footage sent by the artists from their locations; winner 2017 Muse Award in Video, Film, and Animation category
  https://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/megacities-asia/artist-statements

  Alex Katz Prints

  – Creative Consultant and writer for multimedia guide, working with the artist and his family on audio and video content

  Permanent Collection: African-American Art in the MFA

  Degas and the Nude

  – Creative Consultant and writer for multimedia guide, working with performer Amanda Palmer as narrator

  Aphrodite and the Gods of Love

  – Creative Consultant and script editor for theatrical program using actors from the Huntington Theater Company

  Permanent Collection: Art of the Americas Wing

  – New Media Consultant: writing, research, video interviewing, direction, and storyboarding for multimedia content for new wing covering Art of the Ancient Americas through Contemporary American Art

  Dale Chihuly

  – Multimedia guide

  Multimedia Pilot

  – For new American Wing

  The Secrets of Tomb 10A

  Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice

  – Tour and historic Venetian fashion-related podcast

  Art and Empire: Treasures from the British Museum

  – Tour and family podcast

  Edward Hopper

  Permanent Collection: Ancient Egypt

  – Adult and family tours

  Permanent Collection: Art of the Ancient Near East

  – Family tour

  Permanent Collection: Classical Galleries

  – Family tour

  Permanent Collection: Arts of Africa and Oceania

  El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Phillip III

   

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  Ellsworth Kelly Plant Drawings

  – Writer/Producer/Interviewer, working with Ellsworth Kelly on an inaugural phase of a new series for the Met, called "Artists' Perspectives" - special exhibition content as well as content to live on past the run of the exhitbition throughout the Permanent Collection Galleries of the Met with personal observations by Kelly.

  Byzantium and Islam
  Permanent Collection: Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

  – Writer and Producer for audio interpretation of entire suite of 15 new galleries of Islamic Art. Created 150 interpretative messages, including linking messages covering different artistic materials and techniques unique to historically Islamic cultures, and well as themes and ideas across the galleries. Also included are Reading and Music messages, providing alternative interpretation in forms of literature or musical soundtracks for particular objects and displays.

  Permanent Collection: Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

  – Content for family/children covering Islamic Art

  Permanent Collection: Frames

  – Special program covering frames in the European Paintings Galleries

  ‘Investigations’

  – Scientific/Conservation tour of various Permanent Collection Galleries in conversation-based format

  Permanent Collection: New American Wing

  – Handheld and online content for individual displays and period rooms

  Permanent Collection: Burgos Tapestry, The Cloisters

  The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and The Belles Heures

  Permanent Collection: new installation of Ancient Egyptian Galleries

  Permanent Collection: Arts of the Ancient Near East

  Permanent Collection: Ancient Egypt

  Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh

  Treasury of the World: Jeweled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals

  Byzantium: Faith and Power 1261-1557

  African American Artists: 1929 to 1945

  – Directed Cicely Tyson, narrator

  Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence

  A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from Harvard University

  John Townsend: Newport Cabinet Maker

  Childe Hassam: American Impressionist

  Treasures of A Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting

  Hendrick Goltzius: Drawings, Prints and Paintings

  Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

  China: Dawn of A Golden Age

  ‘Touch Tour’

  – For the Blind and Visually Impaired, Ancient Egyptian Galleries

   

• Baltimore Museum of Art

  Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963-2017

  -Working with the artist for audioguide and video projection in final gallery of the exhibition
  -Content also used for exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
  https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/odyssey-jack-whitten-sculpture/audio-guide

  
  Matisse/Diebenkorn
  
  Content Strategist and Developer for the BMA's GoMobile

  – Covering the museum's newly designed and installed wing for Contemporary Art, as well as newly expanded and reinstalled galleries of African and Asian Art.  Wrote, produced, and directed all audio and video content:
  gomobileartbma.org

  Content Strategist and Developer for iPad based video content

  – For new educational space gallery in Contemporary Art Wing for 3-year installation, created a series of videos "Home Stories" collaborating with households throught Baltimore

   

• National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.

  Wayfinding and accessibility descriptive audio guide

  - Audio description incorporating exhibits and object interpretation, and wayfinding guide to all levels of the museum, covering all Permanent Collection displays on all levels of the museum. Available to groups and prebooked individuals in multiple languages in collaboration with NMAAHC and Clearly Innovative.
   

• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

  Van Gogh and the Sunflowers
  
  In the Picture
  
  Van Gogh and Japan

  -Content creation and consultation for new technology-based solution to create differening experiences for large crowds in multiple languages 

  
  On the Verge of Insanity
  
  Into the Forest
  
  Writer/Content Strategist for Multimedia Guide to the Permanent Collection

  - Wrote and designed content for all audiences (all-museum guide, highlights guide, family guide) for lauch of new museum installation, and phase 2 following partial re-install. In collaboration with Fabrique Design + Interactive in Amsterdam, created interactives and new audience experiences to meet new missions for the multimedia guide and to alleviate traffic flow issues. Translated into 10 languages.

  “Yours, Vincent”

  – iPhone app for the Van Gogh letters project and permanent collection – cited by reviewers in The Boston Globe and Macworld (4 star rating) as one of the best apps of 2009/2010 for its rich content.
   

   

• National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar

  Highlights Tour

   -Writer, Producer, and Content Strategist for Highlights Tour and Old Palace immersive walk content

  Content Strategy

  -Training sessions for NMoQ staff on digital content and storytelling approaches

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

  Artist Walks

  -Writer/producer for collaborations with contemporary artists for a series of immersive audio
  walks through the collection:
  https://www.gardnermuseum.org/audioguide/english/artist-walks

  Theft Tour

  -Writer/producer for immersive audio walk retracing the theives' steps during the infamous 1990 "Gardner heist"
  Reviewed in the Boston Globe:
  https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/13/arts/gardner-museums-new-audio-tour-follows-footprints-art-thieves/

  Introductory Video

  -Producer and voiceover for visitor introductory video: 
  https://www.gardnermuseum.org/visit/while-youre-here

  
  Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth

  -Video production connecting exhibition to celebrations in contempoary Boston

  
  Jean-Michel Othoniel: Secret Flower Sculptures

  -Working with the artist to create audio in English and French

  Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy

  Carla Fernández: The Barefoot Designer

  Sophie Calle: Last Seen

  Raqs Media Collective: The Great Bare Mat and Constellation

  – Working with the artists to create audio content for exhibition

  New Building updates

  – Content update for new wing opened January 2012

  Permanent Collection tour

  – Covering entire museum

  Anders Zorn: A European Seduces America

   

• Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA

  Mobile content, audio and video: Writer, Producer, and Content Strategist 

  https://icavcu.org/mobile

  Architecture tour

  - Covering exterior views of the building and landscape architecture/plantings as well as interior tour

  Declaration

  - Audio content for inaugural exhibition: audio content with artist interviews and collaborations

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

  Permanent Collection

  – Multimedia content, as designated East Coast Correspondent covering various east coast artists

  75th Anniversary Exhibition

  – Theatrical/collage style thematic gallery overviews

  Natural Affinities: Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams

  Frida Kahlo

  – Multimedia guide, also used for Walker Art Center, Minneapolis venue

   

• Tate Modern, London

  Paul Klee: Making Visible

  – Multimedia content for onsite guide and app

  Lichtenstein: A Retrospective

  – Multimedia content for onsite guide and app, cited in The Guardian UK for rich and engaging content

  Permanent Collections

  – Additions to adult content, multimedia guide

  Permanent Collection

  – Additions to family multimedia guide

  Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective

  Dali and Film

  – Multimedia tour

  Frida Kahlo

  – Multimedia tour, winner of 2006 MUSE award from American Association of Museums

  Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris

  – Adult and family multimedia tours

  Permanent Collection

  – Multimedia family tour

  Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction

  – Multimedia tour

  Gilbert & George

  – Multimedia tour in collaboration with the artists, and online content

  Experimental interactive multimedia program

  – For students qualifying in art/design for British GCSEs

  David Smith

  – Writer and narrator, pilot cellphone tour

   

• Tate Britain, London

  Permanent Collection

  – Family content on multimedia guide, based on characters/creative approach I created for Tate Modern

  Permanent Collection

  – Multimedia content covering Contemporary Art

  Tate Triennial 2006

  Turner Prize 2005

   

• Tate Liverpool

  Nam June Paik

  – Content for both Tate Liverpool and FACT - Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool, UK

   

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

  Architecture Tour

  -Writer and producer for new family tour of the iconic building

  Wang Jianwei: Time Temple

  - Writer and producer for audio and video content in English and Mandarin for general audiences, families/children, and verbal description.

  Italian Futurism, 1901-1944: Reconstructing the Universe

  - Writer and producer for audio, video, and interactive content for general audiences, families/children, and verbal description.

  Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative:

  No Country: Art for South and Southeast Asia

  - Content strategist, writer and producer to develop audio and multimedia content, working directly with the artists from South and Southeast Asia in the exhibition. Separate content for general audiences, families/children, and interpretation for the visually impaired. Adult and family content were somewhat revised and re-recorded for the exhibition as it traveled to the Asia Society Hong Kong.

  Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today

  - Content strategist, writer and producer to develop audio and multimedia content, working directly with the artists from Latin America in the exhibition.  Separate content was created for general audiences, families/children, and interpretation for the visually impaired. Provided all content in English and Spanish, including Spanish interviews with artists.

  Robert Motherwell: Early Collages

  Gutai: Splendid Playground

  -Content for families/kids, including game-based interactions between people visiting together

   

• The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

  Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

  – video podcast
  download the podcast

   

• De Young Museum, San Francisco

  Warhol Live!

  – Writer and narrator

   

• Emory University, Carlos Museum, Atlanta

  Permanent Collection

  Carlos and the Bible

  – Thematic tour of Permanent Collection

  The Cradle of Civilization

  Carlos Conversations

  – Host, writer/interviewer, and producer for on-going series of enhanced podcasts, roundtable discussion format.
  download the podcasts
  Awarded “Best New Use of Technology” by Atlanta Magazine

   

• Bozar – Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels

  “It’s Not Only Rock and Roll”

  – Writer and narrator for audio guide and podcast, featuring interviews with musicians who are also visual artists

   

• The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

  The Aztec World

   

• The Jewish Museum, New York

  Permanent Collection tour

  Director’s Highlights tour

  Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider

  Modigliani: Beyond the Myth

   

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  Permanent Collection

  – Multimedia content, Contemporary Art

  Permanent Collection

  – Multimedia content, Chinese and Korean Art

  Permanent Collection

  – Multimedia content, Decorative Arts

   

• The National Gallery, London

  Permanent Collection: Art in the Making

  – scientific/conservation tour and online content

   

• The British Museum, London

  Michelangelo: Closer to the Master

  – General audience tour and verbal description guide

   

• The Royal Academy, London

  The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters

  China: The Three Emperors

   

• Hancock Tower, Chicago

  Adult and Children’s permanent installation multimedia tour; history of Chicago

  – Worked with and directed David Schwimmer, narrator – tour was reviewed as exceptional in The Chicago Tribune

   

• The MIT Museum, Cambridge MA

  Video content for ipod based tour

  – vVdeos covering all major display areas of the MIT Museum, including video updates for changing exhibitions and working with contemporary artists exhibiting at the museum to create video content

   

• The Hermitage, Nashville

  Rachel Jackson

  – Additions to permanent site tour, covering the story of Rachel Jackson

   

• The Indianapolis Museum of Art

  Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life

  Matisse: Life in Color

  Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portait

  Gifts to the Tsars

  Lilly House

  – Adult and family tours

   

• The Freedom Trail, Boston

  - Adult and Family walking tours

• Philadelphia Museum of Art

  Degas and Dance

  – Adult and family tours

   

• Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

  Permanent Collection

  – All departments

  Music Tour

  – Thematic tour of permanent collection

  Family Tour

  The Age of Impressionism: European Masterpieces from Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen

   

• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

  2008 Whitney Biennial

  – Audio and multimedia pilot

  Picasso and American Art

   

• Milwaukee Art Museum

  Kohl's Art Generation for iPod Touch

  – Scriptwriter and producer for app content geared towards families and young children.
  download app

   

• The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT

  Permanent Collection

  – Writer and producer for content for cross-platform use, produced in English and Spanish