Exhibitions
Contact me for exhibition solutions, including:
Curating
Exhibit Film direction
Managing oral history projects
Oral history interviews
Curatorial Research
Registration
Exhibitions management and coordination
Current and past positions and projects include:
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Exhibit Coordinator The Holocaust By Bullets: The Mass Shootings of Jews in the Ukraine 1941-1944 2008, Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York On loan from the Musee de la Shoah in Paris, this exhibit uncovers the details of massacres in the Ukraine by Nazi forces. The show has received international acclaim. Born out of research done by Father Pierre Desbois, he has traveled across the world sharing his findings. The exhibit will open in New York this November. |
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Film Director The 50th Anniversary of the Archdiocese of Miami 2008, St. Thomas University Library & Museum, Miami Gardens, Florida A small facility on the grounds of St. Thomas University, this museum will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Miami with an exhibition and film. |
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Researcher Lincoln and New York 2008, American History Workshop Exhibit opens Fall 2009 at New-York Historical Society This upcoming exhibit explores in depth for the first time President Lincoln's connections to New York City: its role in his election, his dependency on the city during the Civil War, and the virulent anti-Lincoln forces in New York that he contended with through the rebellion. |
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Curator Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War, Travel version 2007-2008, Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York The award-winning installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage was reduced from 6,000 sq. ft. to 2,000 sq. ft. and shipped to the Jewsh Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, for its first stop on a nationwide tour. See below for more on the original exhibit. |
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Curator Baghdad Revisited: Iraqi Jewish Artifacts from Private Collections 2006, American Sephardi Federation, New York Displayed at the Center for Jewish History, NY, "Baghdad Revisited" introduced visitors to Iraqi-Jewish culture and recalled Baghdad as a nexus of Jewish life, before Iraq's Jews were forced into exile over the course of the 20th century. For more information, visit the American Sephardi Federation Website and click on the Back to Babylon graphic. |
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Project Registrar Have You Eaten Yet? The Chinese Restaurant in America 2006, Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York Built largely from the menu and ephemera collection of Harley Spiller, this exhibit traced the evolution of the Chinese restaurant in America and what representations of Chinese in the food industry revealed about contemporary attitudes towards Chinese-Americans. The exhibit traveled from New York to the Atwater Kent Museum in Philadelphia, where it ran from April 5 - September 10, 2006. Learn more here. |
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Curator New York: City of Refuge — Stories from the Last 60 Years 2004-2005, Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York Using the inherent power of oral history testimony to explore complicated historical topics "New York: City of Refuge" introduced visitors to New York's most recent wave of Jewish immigrants-- from Europe, the Middle East & Former Soviet Union-- and examined issues of exile, refuge, identity and citizenship. |
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Assistant Curator Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War 2002-2005, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York *Awarded Grand Prize for Excellence in Exhibitions from American Association of Museums The award-winning exhibition "Ours to Fight For" was a groundbreaking exhibition in both approach and design. The show used eleven original films and over 400 artifacts to reconstruct the experience of being a Jewish American soldier in the war against the Axis. Visit the exhibit's companion Web page, OurstoFightFor.org to see testimony and artifacts. |
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