CONSULTATION TO MUSEUMS:
Curatorial, Education, Collections Management and Administration


• Museum visioning and master planning


• Independent curatorial services for solo and group/survey exhibitions


• Full catalogue and brochure production including writing, design and project management


• Preparing and presenting lectures, gallery talks, panel discussions and symposia


• Developing and implementing educational and interpretive programs


• Researching, proposing and arranging acquisitions and major gifts


• All aspects of collections management including registration, conservation, database systems, rights and reproduction


• Coordinating major loans to and from museum collections


• Institutional operations, personnel and management issues


• Grantwriting, grant administration and budgeting


• Serving as a liason between museums and other institutions


• Sculpture and public art selection and commissions

EXPERIENCE:

Independent Curator, Art Historian, Writer and Lecturer, 1999–present


Adjunct Faculty
Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, 1999–present


Deputy Director, Collections & Programs and Senior Curator
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 1994–1999


Director and Chief Curator, 1990–1993
Interim Director and Curator, 1989–1990
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami (now the Miami Art Museum)


Curator of Exhibitions, 1986–1988
Acting Curator of Twentieth Century Art, 1984–1986
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota


Curator of Collections and Exhibitions
Miami Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida, 1980–1984



RELATED ACTIVITIES:

Sarasota County Arts Council, Board Member, 2000–2003


Sarasota County Art in Public Places Committee, Founding Member, 1996–2002


State of Florida Fine Arts Council Grants Review Panelist, 2002


State of Florida Art in State Buildings Program, Selection Panelist 1992, 2002


City of Sarasota Public Art Committee 1995–1996


Dade County Art in Public Places, Advisory panelist, 1988–1991