Projects & Presentations

Celebrating CETA: A Look Back at New Haven’s Community Mural Program

In early 2017, New Haven’s “Q” House on Dixwell Avenue was imploded to make way for a brand-new community center. In that long-abandoned Modernist building were at least two murals painted almost forty years ago… View

Ives Gallery, New Haven Free Public Library New Haven, Connecticut · July through September 2019 ·

The Outsiders: Makers and Creatives Working with History Outside the Museum

Our makers and creatives include Colin Caplan, a New Haven architect with a penchant for New Haven pizza who has authored multiple books on local New Haven history… View

New England Museum Association Centennial Conference: Museums on the Move, Stamford, Connecticut · November 2018 ·

What To Do About Columbus?

History, Ethnicity, and Identity in the First Monument to Columbus in Connecticut… View

Wellesley Deerfield Symposium: Monumental Narratives, Revisiting New England's Public Memorials, Historic Deerfield · October 2018 ·

A Guide To Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia

Manassas Museum · August 2018 ·

The Politics of Public Art in Jefferson Country

Central Virginia is sometimes called “Jefferson Country.” It is here, at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, that Thomas Jefferson was born, built his houses, developed 10,000 acres of active plantation labored on by hundreds of men, women and children, and, fathered black children and white children… View

Manchester Centre for Public History & Heritage: Moving Monuments, History, Memory and the Politics of Public Sculpture, Manchester Metropolitan University, England · April 2018 ·

The Elm City, Seicheprey and Stubby: The Centennial of WWI in New Haven

Knights of Columbus Museum, West Haven, Connecticut · April 2018 ·

The Politics of Public Art in Jefferson Country

Central Virginia is sometimes called “Jefferson Country.” It is here, at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, that Thomas Jefferson was born, built his houses, developed 10,000 acres of active plantation labored on by hundreds of men, women and children, and, fathered black children and white children… View

Troubling Histories, Public Art and Prejudice, University of Johannesburg · November 2017 ·

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 ·