Talks

  • “Engineered Aesthetics: Frederick Eversley’s Cast Plastic in the 1970s,” Fellows Lectures in American Art, 2018, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

  • “Plastics and Art in the 1960s: Sue Fuller in Material Context,” 2024 Luxembourg + Co. Gallery, New York, NY.

2024

“Plastics and Art in the 1960s: Sue Fuller in Material Context”
Luxembourg + Co. Gallery
New York, NY

2023

“Women Making Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s: Ruth Asawa, Lee Bontecou, Barbara Chase-Riboud, and Eva Hesse”
Art Seminar Group
Baltimore, MD

2022                    

“Lou Stovall and his Workshop, Inc.: Screenprinting in Washington, DC”
Georgia Museum of Art
Athens, GA

“Lou Stovall: On Inventions and Color” 
Washington Print Club
Washington, DC

2021                      

“Lou Stovall in Washington: On the Craft of Screenprinting”
Sixth Biennial Symposium for the Association of Historians of American Art
Washington, DC

Artist Talk with Jessica Valoris
The Kreeger Museum
Washington, DC

“Frederick Eversley: Cast Plastic Sculpture in the 1970s”
Art Seminar Group
Baltimore, MD

Artist Talk with Imogen-Blue Hinojosa
The Kreeger Museum
Washington, DC

2020                    

STABLE Artist Talk: Rex Delafkaran
The Kreeger Museum
Washington, DC

STABLE Artist Talk: Melvin Nesbitt Jr.
The Kreeger Museum
Washington, DC

2019                    

“A Plastic Presence in Eva Hesse’s 1968 Chain Polymers
College Art Association Annual Conference
New York, NY

2018                   

“Engineered Aesthetics: Frederick Eversley’s Cast Plastic in the 1970s”
Fellows Lectures in American Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, DC

“Art Bites Gallery Talk: Plastics and Duane Hanson’s Woman Eating
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, DC

“Polyester Resin in Pasadena:
De Wain Valentine’s Fields of Transparent Color”
College Art Association Annual Conference
Los Angeles, CA

2017                      

“On Eva Hesse and Fiberglas”
Summary Workshop, Summer Institute in Technical Art History
Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts
New York, NY

2016

“Fiberglas Frontiers: Eva Hesse’s 1968 Chain Polymers
The Roger Rearick Forum,
Department of Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland
College Park, MD

“On Plastics and Robert Irwin”
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Washington, DC

“Presenting Plexiglas: Alexander Calder, Gilbert Rohde, and the Museum of Modern Art at the 1939 New York World’s Fair”
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, NY

2010    

“A Culture of Absurd Materiality: Eva Hesse’s Contingent
Graduate Student Symposium in the History of Art
George Washington University
Washington, DC