EXPERIENCE

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA

— Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts, November 2021 - Present

Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA

— Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture, March 2019 - August 2021

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia 

— Project Manager, July 2018 - June 2019

— Graduate Assistant, July 2017 - June 2018

SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Atlanta, Georgia 

— Exhibition Stylist, March 2018 - March 2019

— Curatorial Assistant + Docent, January 2017 - March 2018

Bloomingdale’s Lenox Square, Atlanta, Georgia

— Fashion Show Stylist + Producer, March 2001 - May 2015

— Studio Services Supervisor, November 2014 - May 2015

— Public Relations Manager, September 2012 - January 2013 

Trinity Productions, Atlanta, Georgia

— Experiential Event Director + Owner, September 2004 - September 2016

EXHIBITIONS

2023

Something Old, Something New: Wedding Fashions and Traditions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2022

Being Muholi: Portraits as Resistance at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA

Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA 

2019-2020

(Anti)SUFFRAGE at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA 

Presence: Meditations on the Spelman College Collection at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

Amy Sherald at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

The Devout Griot, Emotional Keeper by Shanequa Gay at Anne O Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA

This Just In! Recent Acquisitions of the Boston Athenæum at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA

TRANSCEND for The Creatives Project 9th Annual #ArtOfCommunity Exhibition at 34 Peachtree, Atlanta

2018

The Devouts by Shanequa Gay for Aqua Art Miami at Art Basel, Miami, FL

performing fashion: senseless acts of gender, MA Thesis Exhibition at Trois Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Pierre Cardin: Pursuit of the Future at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Atlanta, GA

Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

NOVA for The Creatives Project 8th Annual #ArtOfCommunity Exhibition at 691 West, Atlanta, GA

2017

Guo Pei: Couture Beyond at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Atlanta, GA

Omar Victor Diop: Project Diaspora at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Atlanta, GA

Beverly Buchanan—Ruins and Rituals at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

PRIME for The Creatives Project 7th Annual #ArtOfCommunity Exhibition at 955 Peachtree Street

ENGAGEMENTS

2021 Joe Basille Memorial Lecture Series at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD - Guest Speaker

2021 Mass Cultural Council Artists Fellowship Program for Photography, Boston, MA - Juror

2021 Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Visiting Artist and Scholar Series at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA - Visiting Scholar & Exhibition Juror

2021 “The Harriet Hayden Albums: A Social History of Photography, Agency & Identity in Late 19th Century Boston” at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Lecturer

2020 ‘More Than A Model: Thomas McKeller’s Influence on John Singer Sargent’ for Reframing the Artist’s Model session at SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference) - Presenter  

2020 “A Fashion Feat & Fête” for Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion with the Peabody Essex Museum and the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Moderator

2020 Curator’s Choice: The Harriet Hayden Albums - Photography & Identity in the Late 19th Century at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Lecturer

2020 "The Larger Conversation: Rearview Mirror of Queerness and Erasure" Panel for Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA - Presenter

2020 ‘Suffering Through Suffrage: Curating a Counternarrative’ for the Women and Social Movements in the United States From 1600-2000 Roundtable on Suffrage - Essayist

2020 The Larger Conversation - "The Rearview Mirror of Queerness and Erasure" Panel for Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA - Panelist

2020 Curator’s Choice: (Anti)SUFFRAGE - Same-Sex Relationships in the 19th Century Suffrage Movement at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Lecturer

2020 Curator’s Choice: Edmonia Lewis at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Lecturer

2020 “Black Women and the Politics of Portraiture” at the 2nd Annual Global Conference of Fashion and Photography: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project by Progressive Connexions, Bratislava, Slovakia - Presenter*

2020 Allan Rohan Crite: Boston & Beyond at St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA - Keynote Speaker*

2020 City of Boston’s Arts and Culture Artist-in-Residence - Advisory Committee 

2020 The Larger Conversation - “Reclamation: Power, Agency, and the Black Model” Panel for Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA - Moderator

2020 “Archiving Identity & Preserving Our Image” Panel for Theaster Gates: Black Image Corporation at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA - Moderator

2020 Curator’s Choice: Sartorial Suffrage in conjunction with (Anti)SUFFRAGE at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Moderator

2020 “Empower Her: Black Women in the Arts” Panel at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Moderator

2020 Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA - Collaborator + Writer

2020 The Living Room by Lee Mingwei at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA - Guest Host

2019 Eye of the Expert: (Anti)SUFFRAGE at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Presenter

2019 “Navigating the Performativity of Inclusivity” at Art on the Vine, Martha’s Vineyard, MA - Panelist

2018 performing fashion: senseless acts of gender at the 1st Annual Global Conference of Fashion and Photography: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project by Progressive Connexions, Palermo, Italy - Presenter

2018 #SpelZanelePRIDE Panel on LGBTQI+ Spirituality, Visibility, and Sexuality for Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness at the Spelman College of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA - Creator + Host

2018 SCAD deFINE ART 2018 Keynote Lecture by Toyin Ojih Odutola at SCAD Show, Atlanta, GA - Remarks

2018 Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi Original Exhibition Catalogue - Project Manager + Writer + Editor

2017 SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film Permanent Collection Online Exhibition for Google Arts and Culture Launch - Fashion Photo Stylist + Copywriter + Editor

*Cancelled due to the extenuating circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

EDUCATION

MA, Luxury and Fashion Management, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA

BFA, Fashion Marketing, American InterContinental University, Atlanta, GA - Magna Cum Laude
BS, Management, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL - Cum Laude

Areas of Study + Interest: Fashion, Art, Photography, Race, Gender, Class, Identity, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Womanism | Feminism

EXPRESSIONS

English - Native Tongue (Reading, Speaking, Comprehension)

French - Beginner (Reading, Speaking, Comprehension)