EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMEnTS

2022 - Present, Vice President of Learning and Public Programs

Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach CA

2017 - 2021, Education and Outreach Manager

MuseWeb - Conferences | Publishing | Consulting

2019 - 2021, Director of Education

Long Beach Museum of Art and LBMA Downtown

2019 - Present, Project Manager (Contract)

Museum Operations: Design | Build | Lead

2014 - Present, Instructor of Literature and Online Course Designer

University of California Berkeley, Extension, Humanities and Writing

2011 - 2019, Curator and Assistant Director of Educational Outreach and Programs

Xipe Projects: Educational Foundation for Latin American Arts

Huntington Beach, CA

2009 - Present, Instructor of Human Development, Center for Distance Learning

State University of New York, Empire State College, Human Development

2004 - 2009, Part-Time Lecturer and Instructor of Record

State University of New York at Binghamton, Comparative Literature and Film Theory

EXHIBITIONS

2023 Coordinator, Afro-Latinx Juried Art Presentation, MOLAA, February 26 - March 3, 2023

2020 Jury and Coordinator for Earth, Every Day for the Long Beach Museum of Art; Toyota Student Art Gallery (Postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19).

2017 (Planning/Research Stage) Digital Preservation and Exhibition Coordinator for The Alfonso Palacios Carrillo Collection of Photographs: Album de Fotografias Indigenas Vol. and Vol. 2, 684 black & white silver gelatin prints taken and developed between the years 1942 and 1950.

2015 Exhibition Curator and Catalogue Co-Author for The Maestro and the Dance. An in-depth look at the creative vision of Maestro Florencio Valey of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa and the world of Guatemalan dance culture at Xipe Projects in Huntington Beach, CA.

2014 Exhibition Curator an Catalogue Design for Crisencio Molina Maldonado: Yoeme Deer Singer and Pascola Mask Carver. 

2014 Exhibition Co-Curator and Co-Organizer for the Temporary Exhibition on Maya art and ethnography at the 19th Annual Los Angeles Art Show Presented by The Palm Beach Show Group in Tandem with the 29th Annual IFPDA Los Angeles Fine Print Fair.

2014 Project Manager and Content Coordinator for Cultural Exchange: The Seri Today at Xipe Projects in Huntington Beach, CA. Traveling Exhibition at Xipe Projects in Huntington Beach, CA. Special Guests: the Seri /Comca’ac Women’s Artisans Cooperative from Desemboque.

2013 Catalogue Co-author and Exhibition Curator for Ceramic Trees of Life: Izúcar de Matamoros, Acatlán, and Metepec. Temporary Exhibition on the Mexican tradition of ceramic arts at Xipe Projects in Huntington Beach, CA.

2012 Catalogue C0-author and Exhibition Curator for Visions of the Fantastic: Calaveras, Naguales y Diablos. Temporary Exhibition on Surrealism in Latin American folk art at Xipe Projects in Huntington Beach, CA.

2012 Catalogue Co-author and Exhibition Curator for Persistence of the Flower World. Temporary Exhibition on the masked dance tradition of the Yaqui, Mayo, Cora, Tarahumara, and Tepehuan at Xipe Projects in Huntington Beach, CA,

2012 Catalogue Co-author and Exhibition Curator for Danzas y Máscaras. Exhibition on the masked dance tradition in Guatemala and Mexico at Xipe Projects in Huntington Beach, CA.

PUBLICATIONS

Professional Service

2023 Editorial Board, Viewfinder, National Art Education Association’s Museum Education Division

2022 Program Co-Chair with Adam Brin, MuseWeb 2022, Washington DC #MW22

2020 Coordinator of the Volunteer Team and Social Media Coordinator, MuseWeb, Los Angeles, March 31-April 4 2020 #MW20

2019 Coordinator of the Volunteer Team and Office Manager, MuseWeb, Boston, MA, April 2-7 2019 #MW19

2018 Coordinator of the Volunteer Team, Museums and the Web, Vancouver CANADA April 17-23 2018 #MW18

2017 Volunteer, Museums Beyond Walls: NOVEMBER 2017 LOS ANGELES, 6-9

2017 Coordinator of the Volunteer Team, 21st Annual Museums and the Web Conference, Cleveland, April 19-22, 2017 #MW2017

2016 Conference Volunteer Worker, 20th Annual Museums and the Web Conference, Los Angeles, April 6-9 2016 #MWXX

2015 Community Engagement Strategist for the Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life in L’viv, Ukraine (part of an experimental team project to develop programming for the museum’s international and local audience while maintaining sensitivity and awareness of current social and political conflict in the region).

2012 Advisory Board Member for Trespassing: An online journal for art, science, and philosophy. Istanbul, Turkey.

2010 Manuscript Reviewer. SAGE Open Online Journal: Modern Literature.

2007 Contributing Editor

Crossings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, State University of New York at Binghamton.

Issue # 9 Killing Time

 2006 Managing Editor

Crossings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, State University of New York at Binghamton.

ISSN: 1093-3190

Issue # 8 The "Work" of Art

 2003 Managing and Submissions Editor

genre, California State University at Long Beach.

Issue #23 Cosmopolitanism

CourseS/Digital Design (LMS)

2021 Online Course Design and Development for SUNY Empire State College. Department of Human Development's online series: Cognitive Development (LMS Moodle).

2016 Online Course Revision for SUNY Empire State College. Department of Human Development's online series: Western Civilization and Human Development (LMS Moodle).

2016 Online Course Review for UC Berkeley Extension. Department of Humanities and Languages online series: Mystery Fiction (LMS Canvas).

2015 Online Course Development for UC Berkeley Extension. Department of Humanities and Languages online series: Mystery Fiction (LMS Angel).

2014 Online Course Design and Development for SUNY Empire State College. Department of Human Development’s online series: Western Civilization and Human Development (LMS Moodle).

2014 www.xipeprojects.org Web Design and Project Coordinator for the Museum Digital Initiative #XipeInFocus on Twitter.

2009 Online Course Design and Development for SUNY Empire State College. Department of Human Development’s online series: Western Civilization and Human Development (LMS Angel).

FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE

 2013 Independent Research

Tate Modern Museum and Tate Britain Museum, London UK

• Visit to Prints and Drawings Room

• Archive research on Leonora Carrington

 2013 Independent Research

Museum of Modern Art, NY

• Visits to Drawings Study Center

• Visits to Photography Center

• Archive research on Hans Bellmer

 2006 Research and Archivist, Sponsored by the Tinker Grant Foundation

Tinker Foundation Research Grant to study in Antigua, Guatemala

• Supervised fieldwork for the Loa Project including photography and identification of primary sources

• Personal interviews in Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Vista Linda, and Colonial Maya

• Prepared texts for curation, including identification and translation of primary documents to be used in future publications

2003 Research Assistant to Peter Markman, CSULB

Summer Research in Mexico City, Mexico

• Research at Xochicalco and Templo Mayor

• Visits to restricted galleries and archival spaces of the Museo de Arte Moderno and MUNAL (2003)

• Conducted interviews with Xochicalco archeologists to be used in future publications

 CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Panel Organizer

2022 “Exploring the Iconography of Guadalupe through Art.” Guest panelists Delilah Montoya, Ester Hernandez, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Gabriela Urtiaga. Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach CA. November 10, 2022.

2021 Co-Host with Shanita Brackett, NMAAHC, “High School Programs: Bridging the Museum Diversity Gap” featuring the web-designers of Contemporal.co; Millikan High School Museum Studies; Duke Ellington High School Museum Studies. MuseWeb, Online, April.

2020 Black Comic Creator Day featuring Chuck Patton and Brandon Easton. LBMA Downtown, CA, February 22.

2020 Contemporary Narrative in Textile featuring Luis Flores, Ardeshir Tabrizi, and Paul Loya. Long Beach Museum of Art, CA January 11.

2014 "Guatemalan Dance Masks, Costumes, Public Dramas and Ferias" featuring Dr. Rhonda Taube of Riverside City College. Xipe Projects, CA: December 6.

2013 Masters of Ceramics. Symposium on Mexican folk crafts from the early Twentieth Century. Xipe Projects, CA: June 8-9.

2012 Theorizing the Fantastic in Twentieth-Century Art. ACLA in Providence, RI: March 29.

2009 CROSSROADS: International Literary Festival. Department of Romance Languages and Literature at SUNY Binghamton: November 14-15.

2008 The Ghosts of Latin America. ACLA in Long Beach: April 24-27.

2007 The ‘Work’ of Art: Art, Ethics and Ambivalence. Binghamton University at Spool MFG.

2007 Last Living Words: Reading Ingeborg Bachmann featuring Lilian Friedberg. Binghamton University: October 24-25.

 Professional Papers Presented

2022 “Artful Thinking: Fostering Empathy through Museum Work.” Chicano/a/x and Latina/o/x Studies Symposium. Los Angeles County Office of Education; Center for History and Social Science. October 2, 2022.

2022 “Docent Programs in the Time of COVID” (Plenary Panel Session), CAM Fresno and Los Angeles, April 25, 2022.

The pandemic forever changed the way that museums engage with their volunteers, requiring staff to re-envision what engagement looks like with closed doors. In this panel, three cultural institutions with docent programs at different stages will transparently share how they are addressing the changing needs of docent and volunteer programs.

Moderator: Rebekah Harding, Founder and CEO, Clover Strategic Consulting
Presenters: Alondra Virrey, Public Engagement Manager, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Sohayla Pagano, Education Specialist, Japanese American National Museum; Alison Heney, Director of Learning and Public Programs, Museum of Latin American Art; Solimar Salas, Vice President of Museum Content & Programming, Museum of Latin American Art

2016 The Visual Language of Hans Bellmer and Djuna Barnes." 21. Weltkongress der International Comparative Literature Association, University of Vienna: July 21– 27.

2013 Djuna Barnes and Fairy Tales. Seminar: Modern Fantasy. Modernist Studies Association in Sussex, UK: August 29-September 1.

2012 Sinister Magic and the Anagrams of Hans Bellmer. Seminar: Fantastic Spectacles: Magic, Monsters and Modernism. Modernist Studies Association in Las Vegas, NV: October 18-21.

2011 Barnes, Eliot and the Question of Gender in Literary Forms. Seminar: Women’s Documentary Forms. Modernist Studies Association in Buffalo, New York: October 6-9.

2011 The Fairy Tale as Insightful Remembrance in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina. ACLA in Vancouver, Canada: March 31- April 3.

2011 Translation and the Folklore of Guatemala. Invisible Presences: Translation, Dramaturgy and Performance. Drama and Film Centre at Queen's University in Belfast, UK: April 18- 20.

2010 From the Margin: Language, Humor and Style in Down By Law (Jarmusch 1986). ACLA in New Orleans: April 1-4.

2009 Melancholia and the Crisis of Memory in Nightwood. Seminar: Transnational Modernisms and the Language of Psychoanalysis. Modernist Studies Association in Montreal, Canada: November 11-14.

2009 The Body as Ruin in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina. ACLA at Harvard University: March 26.

2008  Apocalyptic Laughter: The Fantastic in Modern Literature. Seminar: Modernism and the Fantastic. Modernist Studies Association in Nashville: November 13- 16.

2008  ‘Because the last room is his room’: Bluebeard and Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina. ACLA in Long Beach: April 24-27.

2007 Archive and Imagination: Masked Performance in Santa Lucía, Guatemala. ACLA in Puebla, Mexico: April 19-22.

2007 Victor Turner and the Folk Drama of Guatemala. PCA-ACA in Boston: April 7-10.

2006 Wisdom in Popular Fantasy. Midwest Modern Language Association Chicago: November 9-12.

2006 The Mythic Consciousness in Mrs. Dalloway. 41st Annual Comparative Literature and Classics Conference. California State University at Long Beach: March.

2006 Buffy Summers: The Psychic Development of the Feminine. Slayage: Film and Television Conference hosted by Middle Tennessee State University and Gordon College: May 26-28.

Discussant/Moderator

2023 Invited Speaker, Girls Academic Leadership Academy: Young Women’s Career Conference, Los Angeles, February 24, 2023.

2022 Moderator, Panel: "Image and Sound – Beyond the word: experimenting with aural, immersive, and experimental experiences,” MuseWeb, Washington DC.

Dr. Cheryl Fogle-Hatch on how sonification, combined with visual data displays increases accuracy for people with normal vision and facilitates access for people who are blind; "Exploring Sonification: Representing Data with Sound;" https://lnkd.in/gqC8R73E And a project from Winnie Lai - Curator, Learning and Interpretation with Claudia Tsang - Assistant Curator, Learning and Interpretation @ M+ on "The Cabinet: Turning an Open storage into a Game of Interpretation." https://lnkd.in/gK9W-Q9p

2020 Invited Guest Lecturer on Alice Guy-Blaché and Francesca Woodman, Docent Council of LBMA, March 11.

2019 Invited Guest Lecturer on K-12 Art Education for the Phoenix Group at LBMA.

2012 Invited Participant 2012 IWL: Istanbul. June 25 – July 20. Institute for World Literature Annual Conference: Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, hosted by Bilgi Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey.

2009 Invited Guest Speaker for Virginia Woolf: Body, Memory, Narrative. COLI 541B at Binghamton University.

2006-2008 Guest Lectures in COLI 214F on topics including Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of a Folktale, The Wizard of Oz, Russian Fairy Tales, Fairy Tale and Film, Atypical Folk Motifs, and The Figure of Bacchus in Classical Mythology (8 total).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2014 – Present University of California Berkeley, Extension

Instructor of Literature, Online Course and Course Development

• Mystery Fiction (Continuous Enrollment)

2009 – Present  SUNY Empire State College: Center for Distance Learning

Lecturer, Online Courses and Course Development in Human Development

UNDERGRADUATE UPPER DIVISION COURSES

• Adults as Learners: Theories and Strategies

• Western Civilization and Human Development

 UNDERGRADUATE LOWER DIVISION COURSES

• Human Learning: A Developmental Approach

• Introduction to Human Development

 2005 – 2010 Binghamton University

Part-time Lecturer and Instructor of Record in Comparative Literature and Film

 UNDERGRADUATE UPPER DIVISION COURSES

• Film and Feminism

• Horror Film and the Fantastic

• Theories of Spectatorship

• Film and the Avant-Garde

• Cinema and Violence

 UNDERGRADUATE LOWER DIVISION COURSES

Instructor of Record/Teaching Assistant in Comparative Literature

• Fairy Tales

• Literature and Psychology

• Literature and Society

 2003 – 2004 California State University at Long Beach

Teaching Assistant in Comparative World Literature and Classics

 UNDERGRADUATE UPPER DIVISION COURSES/CROSS-LISTED WITH GRADUATE STUDIES

• Mesoamerican Mythology

• Fairy Tales

Professional Development

2022 “Visual Thinking in the Museum - Beginners Course” with Claire Bown of The Thinking Museum. November 2022.

2021 “Creating Powerful Digital Campaigns That Engage and Inspire, “ presented by Sara Tetreault, Forum One, USA, Christina Crawley, Forum One, United States, Steven Bond, Forum One, United States on April 5, 2021 at MuseWeb.

2020 “Race, Religion, and Justice,” presented by Fairleigh Dickinson University professor, Dr. Khyati Joshi, on October 30, 2020 SUNY Empire State College.

2016 Museums and the Web workshop - All about MOOCs: producing, managing and sustaining effective online course experiences with Deborah Howes of Johns Hopkins University (USA), and Ajay Kapur (CalArts)

2016 AAM Webinar - The Nuts and Bolts of Managing Digitized Collections From Capture to Copyright, Wednesday, March 30, 2016 (Participants are encouraged to extend the conversation on Twitter at @AAMers @MUSEawards #musetech)

RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Website Development

• Ability to write and edit program notes and other text for catalogues, film guides, web sites, and other promotional material.

• Exhibition design

• Collections management

• Digital publishing, mobile content, social media

• Experience with several Course Management Systems (CMS): Canvas, Moodle, ANGEL, and Blackboard

• Frequent use of Blackboard compatible tools such as AdobeConnect, Panopto Lecture Capture, Wiki, Joule Grader, SurveyMonkey, and HTML