Projects & Presentations

Breaking (Bad) Glass: Yale University, the City of New Haven and the Painting of Public Memory of Enslavement

The sound of breaking glass in what was then called Calhoun College at Yale University on June 13, 2016 signaled the death knell for that college’s name and highlighted the university’s reticence in addressing school history and its problematic relationship to the city in which it resides, which is New Haven, Connecticut… View

Universities, Slavery, Public Memory & the Built Landscape, University of Virginia · October 2017 ·

State of Connecticut Percent-for-Art Installation at CAES

Project Description The Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station is seeking a work of art that honors the rich history of CAES and taps into the extensive photo and archival collection… View

Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station New Haven, Connecticut · 2016-2017 ·

The Spirit of 1776/1917: Town and Gown Go to War

In the summer of 1917 Americans began preparing to enter the European War. Cantonments and camps sprang up around the country, making doughboys out of farm hands, clerks, factory workers—and college students… View

Te Papa Tongarewa / Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand · April 28, 2017 ·

Monuments to the Vultures: Benedict Arnold and John Andre in British Visual and Material Culture

The British Scholar Society · 2016 ·

An Artist at War: Deane Keller, New Haven’s Monuments Man

In 1943, Nazi Germany controlled most of Western Europe and the Allies were preparing for the invasion of Italy and France. Urged by American scholars to spearhead an international effort to save and preserve Europe’s cultural treasures, President Franklin D… View

New Haven Museum New Haven, Connecticut · December 7, 2014 – December 30, 2016 ·

That Which Contributes Largely To Our Civic Pride: 150 Years of Public Art in New Haven

Outside the Gallery: Public Sculpture in New England, Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium, Historic Deerfield · 2015 ·

Deane Keller: Connecticut’s Monuments Man

Florence Griswold Museum · October 2015 ·

Changing Images of Columbus in the Elm City, 1892-2008

The purpose of this brief presentation is to share with you some information and thoughts I have regarding the different images, which scholars call “visual culture” of Christopher Columbus, right here in the Elm City… View

Amity Club, New Haven · 2015 ·

The Role of Public Art in Creating City Identity

Association for the Study of Connecticut History · April 2014 ·

Norwalk Quilt Trail

Seven local arts and cultural institutions joined in a unique collaboration to form the Norwalk Quilt Trail, a series of exhibits during 2011 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The Quilt Trail spotlighted 100 quilts made and collected in Norwalk… View

Museums in Norwalk, Connecticut · May to November 2011 ·